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397/613 – The law of the red cow (heifer)

Yaakov, Béla Orbán

"And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 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 19:1-2) 

The so down slaughtered animal was sacrificed in holocaust outside of the camp in a fire of cedar wood with scarlet and hyssop. 
During the sacrifice all which was pure became impure and all which was impure got cleansed …

The wise Jews cannot explain this outstanding ceremony. There is a hypothesis according to which it would be about an offering of repair in memory of the golden veal.

Others consider this law as being a decree. 
The sovereigns often ordered decrees to the peoples without giving any explanation or sense about their meaning or their purposes. They did so to make clear their absolute power in the eyes of everyone.  

Because there is no Sanctuary today, and because as a consequence of it, there is no pacificator ashes prepared according to the method explained previously, we are consequently all in the state of impurity by the death... 
This is the reason why it is forbidden to go up to the Temple Hill in Jerusalem, to the territory of the Sanctuary…  

Although, for us, the notion of purifying Sacrifice is quite well known…
The redeeming work of Yeshua HaMashiach was carrying this double effect.
He became impure by our sins, while we were cleansed by Him. 
The carmine is the symbol of the blood, the hyssop the one of the cure and the cedar generates the good savor…  

 

Translated from hungarian by Richard (Zeev Shlomo)

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