I understand that five red heifers that have been examined and found perfect by a group of Rabbis were recently flown from the US to Israel. They are yearlings and being held at an undisclosed location.
I am curious to hear from other members about the significance of this event.
Very significant event , they need to sacrifice the animals, the full details of the ritual can be found in numbers, no ash from the red heifer, no temple.
Laws for Purification
Num 19:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Num 19:2 This
is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein
is no blemish,
and upon which never came yoke:
Num 19:3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and
oneshall slay her before his face:
Num 19:4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
Num 19:5 And
one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
Num 19:6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast
it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
Num 19:7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
Num 19:8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
Num 19:9 And a man
that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay
them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it
is a purification for sin.
Num 19:10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
Num 19:11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
Num 19:12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
Num 19:13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness
is yet upon him.
Num 19:14 This
is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that
is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
Num 19:15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it,
is unclean.
Num 19:16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Num 19:17 And for an unclean
person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
Num 19:18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip
it in the water, and sprinkle
it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
Num 19:19 And the clean
person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
Num 19:20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he
is unclean.
Num 19:21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
Num 19:22 And whatsoever the unclean
person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth
it shall be unclean until even.
Peace!
JF