Editor's note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on the Ceremony of the Red Heifer. Read Part 2 here: "Black Elk, White Buffalo Woman and the mystery of the red heifer ceremony." The parah adumah, ...
Parashat Chukat opens with the strange ritual of the red heifer, perhaps the quintessential example given of a statute (chok) for which, according to the sages, there is no rational explanation, only ...
Editor's note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on the Ceremony of the Red Heifer. Read Part 1 here: "With the red heifer ceremony, God purifies the people through the earth." With the red heifer ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cows he was talking about are red heifers, which now graze at a secure, undisclosed location in the Israeli-occupied West Bank ...