Jerusalem Shiekh: There is no proof the Temples ever existed
Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem head warns against bringing of Red Heifer on the Temple Mount.
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Palestinian Arabs afraid of the red heifer
Dr. Ahmad Shihab said that bringing red heifers to Jerusalem shows that the Israeli government 'encourages harm to al-Aqsa mosque.'
History in the making: Pure red heifer brought to Israel
Red heifer center 'a major attraction for a million visitors a year,' local leader Israel Ganz says.
The red heifer - then and now
Tammuz: Tough start to a tough month striking when words are needed.
Ki Tisa and Shabbat Parah: Taking off the mask
Our Sages enacted that on the Shabbat (occasionally the final Shabbat) before Nissan, every Shul would read this decree of the Red Cow:
The Parsha and Current Events: Para Aduma
When goyim attack our religious beliefs, the best thing is to say, “because Hashem said so”, and discussion finished.
Weekly Torah Study: Chukat
The inexorable march of time is the thread running through the parasha.
The Logic Defying Power of the Red Heifer Ashes
The Temple Institute is Working to Raise a Red Heifer.
Chukat (Israel): Heavenly irrationality
How ironic that the most irrational of all creatures – human beings – criticize Jewish tradition as not being rational or easily explained.
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..
Watch: Search for Biblical red heifer reaches Texas
Texas rabbi inspects newborn cows on behalf of Temple Institute to find the rare red heifer, which undoes the highest levels of impurity.
The Parsha and Current Events: Para Aduma
Parashat Chukat (Para): Disunity brings death and tuma, but unity brings life and tahara (purity).
The mitzva the nations mocked
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?
The Red Heifer: An available tool
Jews were seldom obligated to purify. It was only for those who made pilgrimage and who had become impure since their last pilgrimage.
Shabbat Parah: While Purim is still echoing...
This Shabbat is the confluence of three components of our calendar: the aftermath of Purim, Parashat Ki Tissa, and Shabbat Parah.
Hashem - I don't understand, but let us make up
The Holocaust is inexplicable to man, as is the Red Heifer. The question mark is the essence of Jewish faith.
Recipe for a perfect Red Heifer
This is not in our food section because the ingredients are currently unavailable, but how we wish we could achieve the purity it brings!
What is the rationale?
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.
Weekly Torah Study: Chukat
What makes the Red heifer so mysterious to us? Lecture from the Temple Institute.
Kohelet, Tolstoy and the Red Heifer
The person in modern times who most deeply experienced and expressed what Kohelet felt was Tolstoy.
"Did you understand that?"
Intellectual commandments and auditory commandments - and the differences between them.
Temple Institute Raising a Genuine Red Heifer
Temple Institute partnering with expert Israeli rancher to raise herd of red heifers, for future use in Third Temple.
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