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  2. Parah - Wikipedia

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    Parah (Hebrew: פָּרָה) is the name of a treatise in the Mishnah and the Tosefta, included in the order Tohorot.The Pentateuchal law (Num. 19) decrees that a red heifer, "wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke," shall be burned and her ashes mixed with spring water, that the compound so obtained may be used to sprinkle and cleanse every one who becomes unclean.

  3. Water of lustration - Wikipedia

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    An unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin, and running water shall be put on them in a vessel. A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a ...

  4. Kallal - Wikipedia

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    According to rabbinical sources, the kallal was a small stone urn kept in the Tabernacle and later in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem which contained the ashes of a red heifer. The Hebrew Bible does not mention any urn in the Numbers 19 account. [1] Kallal is the Aramaic word for a stone vessel or pitcher.

  5. Chukat - Wikipedia

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    Moses Striking Water from the Rock (painting circa 1633–1635 by Nicolas Poussin). Chukat, HuQath, Hukath, or Chukkas (חֻקַּת ‎—Hebrew for "decree," the ninth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 39th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה ‎, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the sixth in the Book of Numbers.

  6. Tumah and taharah - Wikipedia

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    Mei hatat - water into which ashes of the red heifer were mixed; People who were involved in the red heifer procedure and in certain procedures of the Yom Kippur sacrifices; Niddah - a menstruant woman; a man who has had sex with such a woman; the woman's blood, spit, and urine; objects which she has sat, reclined, or rode upon

  7. Jewish leaders in Israel needed a red heifer for a temple ...

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    According to The Jerusalem Post, the red heifer appears in a portion of the Book of Numbers 19:3 that reads “This is the ritual law that God has commanded: Instruct the Israelite people to bring ...

  8. Eleazar - Wikipedia

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    Eleazar played a number of roles during the course of the Exodus, from creating the plating for the altar from the firepans of Korah's assembly, [2] to performing the ritual of the red heifer. [3] After the death of his older brothers Nadab and Abihu , he and his younger brother Ithamar were appointed to the charge of the sanctuary.

  9. When and what is Ash Wednesday? Why Christians wear ashes to ...

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    According to christianity.com, the Bible references this in Genesis 2:7: "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a ...