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RED HEIFER BIRTH, PAVES WAY FOR RENEWED TEMPLE SERVICE

by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz | Sep 5, 2018 | Jerusalem

Red heifer candidate born in Israel. (Credit: The Temple Institute/YouTube
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Last Tuesday, the Temple Institute’s Red Heifer program was blessed with
results; an entirely red female calf was born, paving the way for
re-establishing the Temple service and marking the final stage of redemption.



Almost three years ago the Temple Institute inaugurated its Raise a Red Heifer
in Israel program. Due to laws restricting the importation of live cattle into
Israel, the Temple Institute imported frozen embryos of red angus, implanting
them in Israeli domestic cows. The pregnant cows were raised on cattle ranches
in different locations throughout the country. The cows are giving birth this
summer with several calves already having been born.

One week after it’s birth, the newborn red heifer was certified by a board of
rabbis as fulfilling all the Biblical requirements. The rabbis emphasized that
the heifer could, at any time, acquire a blemish rendering it unsuitable. They
will be inspecting the calf periodically to verify its condition.

The red heifer was the main component in the Biblically mandated process of
ritual purification for impurity that results from proximity or contact with a
dead body.  Because the elements needed for this ceremony have been lacking
since the destruction of the Second Temple, all Jews today are considered
ritually impure, thereby preventing the return of the Temple service.

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The red heifer is described in the Book of Numbers.

“This is the ritual law that Hashem has commanded: Instruct B’nei Yisrael to
bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no
yoke has been laid. Numbers 19:2

Several heifers have been found in recent years that seemed to qualify but
ultimately were unsuited for the ritual. Earlier this month, two calves born in
Israel to the Institute’s red heifer program were deemed to be unsuitable for
the performance of the mitzvah. One calf was a bull while the second, a heifer,
had a small patch of white hair which disqualified her.





The heifer, born from a natural birth, must be entirely red, with no more than
two non-red hairs on its body. It must also never have been used for any labor
or have been impregnated. The existence of such a heifer is considered a
biological anomaly and very rare. Fortunately, the ritual requires an
infinitesimally small quantity of ashes. From the time of Moses, who personally
prepared the first heifer, until the destruction of the Temple, only nine red
heifers were prepared. Nonetheless, this was sufficient to maintain the ritual
purity of the entire nation for almost 2,000 years.

According to Jewish tradition, there will only be ten red heifers in human
history with the tenth heifer ushering in the Messianic era. Rabbi Moshe ben
Maimon (Maimonides), the most renowned medieval Jewish scholar known by the
acronym Rambam, wrote in his explanation of the mitzvah that “the tenth red
heifer will be accomplished by the king, the Messiah; may he be revealed
speedily, Amen, May it be God’s will.”

Rabbi Chaim Richman, the International Director of the Temple Institute,
commented on this on the institute’s website.

“If there has been no red heifer for the past 2,000 years, perhaps it is because
the time was not right; Israel was far from being ready. But now… what could it
mean for the times we live in, to have the means for purification so close at
hand? With the words of Maimonides in mind, we cannot help but wonder and pray:
If there are now red heifers… is ours the era that will need them?”

The laws pertaining to the mitzvah are myriad and considered by the sages to be
the archetypal chok, an inexplicable Torah commandment accepted solely on faith.
Before entering the land of Israel after the Exodus, the heifer was burned
outside of the camp. In the days of the Temple, the heifer was taken to the
Mount of Olives across a causeway built specifically for this purpose to ensure
that there was no inadvertent contact with areas along the way that may have
been contaminated by dead bodies.

Cedarwood, hyssop, and wool or yarn dyed scarlet are added to the fire, and the
remaining ashes are placed in a vessel containing spring water to purify a
person who has become ritually contaminated by contact with a corpse. Water from
the vessel is sprinkled on the subject, using a bunch of hyssop, on the third
and seventh day of the purification process. The priest who performs the ritual
then becomes ritually unclean, and must then wash himself and his clothes in
running waters. He is deemed impure until evening.



No less stringent than the laws pertaining to the heifer are the laws pertaining
to the site where the heifer is burned. Almost 30 years ago, Rabbi Yonatan
Adler, who is also an archaeologist, performed an in-depth study into the
textual references to the site where the red heifer was burned, publishing his
results in  in the Torah journal Techumin. His calculations, based on the Holy
of Holies being located where the Dome of the Rock stands today, led him to a
spot where Dominus Flevit, a Catholic Church built in 1955, now stands.
Archaeological surveys discovered unique characteristics of the site that
corresponded to descriptions in the Talmud.




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