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  2. Red heifer - Wikipedia

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    According to the Mishnah, the ceremony of the sacrifice and burning of the red heifer took place on the Mount of Olives. A ritually pure kohen slaughtered the heifer and sprinkled its blood in the direction of the Temple seven times. The red heifer was then burned on a pyre, together with wool dyed scarlet, hyssop, and cedarwood to ashes. The ...

  3. Branded (2012 film) - Wikipedia

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    Over the next six years, the "fat is fabulous" campaign is successful; most people are overweight and advertising images now focus on this change in perception of the ideal body type. Misha dreams that he performs the Red Heifer ritual, sacrificing a red cow and bathing in its ashes. When he wakes, he discovers that he can see strange creatures ...

  4. Yom Kippur Temple service - Wikipedia

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    Seven days prior to Yom Kippur, the Kohen Gadol was sequestered in the Palhedrin chamber in the Temple, [17] where he reviewed (studied) the service with the sages familiar with the Temple, and was sprinkled with spring water containing ashes of the Red Heifer as purification.

  5. Cattle in religion and mythology - Wikipedia

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    The red heifer or red cow is a particular kind of cow brought to priests for sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible. Jews and some Christian fundamentalists believe that once a red heifer is born they will be able to rebuild the Third Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. [citation needed]

  6. Jewish leaders in Israel needed a red heifer for a ... - AOL

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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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Terumat hamaaser - Wikipedia

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    In contemporary times, all people are considered to be defiled by a type of "impurity" (Hebrew: טומאה ‎ tumah) which can only be purified through the ritual of the red heifer (Hebrew: פרה אדומה ‎ parah adumah). It has not been possible to perform this sacrifice since the destruction of the Second Temple.

  9. Ginger Cow - Wikipedia

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    News of the cow spreads across the globe and is widely interpreted as the fulfillment of a Biblical prophecy regarding a red heifer that signals the end times, prompting mass suicides. Kyle is then called to Mr. Mackey's office, where he is introduced to three Israeli rabbis, who explain the prophecy to him.