Red Heifer

Parashat Shmini/Shabbat Parah: So you think you understand?

The deaths of Nadav and Avihu in Parashat Shmini coupled with reading about the Red Heifer - we can neither add to or fathom mitzvot..

Texas rabbi inspects newborn cows on behalf of Temple Institute to find the rare red heifer, which undoes the highest levels of impurity.

Parashat Chukat (Para): Disunity brings death and tuma, but unity brings life and tahara (purity).

The Red Heifer's meaning is not known, ’It is a decree from Hashem, and we do not question it.’ So how does it atone for the golden calf?

Jews were seldom obligated to purify. It was only for those who made pilgrimage and who had become impure since their last pilgrimage.

This Shabbat is the confluence of three components of our calendar: the aftermath of Purim, Parashat Ki Tissa, and Shabbat Parah.

The Holocaust is inexplicable to man, as is the Red Heifer. The question mark is the essence of Jewish faith.

This is not in our food section because the ingredients are currently unavailable, but how we wish we could achieve the purity it brings!

Harav Avraham Kook taught us how to think of Am Yisrael as comprising all who are born to a Jewish mother or underwent halakhic conversion.

What makes the Red heifer so mysterious to us? Lecture from the Temple Institute.

The person in modern times who most deeply experienced and expressed what Kohelet felt was Tolstoy.

Intellectual commandments and auditory commandments - and the differences between them.

Temple Institute partnering with expert Israeli rancher to raise herd of red heifers, for future use in Third Temple.