Parshat Hukat - Holy Cow, Holy Ashes

Rabbi Simcha Hochbaum of Hebron discusses the Torah portion of Hukat and the inspiration we can draw from the purification process of the red heifer.
Shalom my friends, this is Simcha Hochbaum of Hebron here in Yerushlayaim Ir HaKodesh, facing the gate where Moshiach’s supposed to come and overlooking Har HaZeitim.
This Shabbat, Parshat Hukat we read all about the special holy cow, the red heifer, that was used to purify one who came in contact with a dead corpse.
And he would be sprinkled with the ashes of that red heifer both on the third and seventh day.
That would enable him to once again enter into the Temple Mount area. The process of the red heifer is one of those laws we have trouble understanding.
The one who actually prepares the red heifer, he becomes impure. The one who is sprinkled upon, he becomes purified.
And the verse says, “you will take it out of the camp and there you slaughter the red heifer.” And then, veasaf ish tahor, a pure man will come and gather those ashes and sprinkle on the one who came in contact with the dead body.
Shlomo Carlebach would teach that this is the story of the Jewish people. When we’re taken out of the camp, it’s like an allusion to the Jewish nation being taken out of the Land of Israel, to Jewish people being exiled and being taken to many countries where we’ll be persecuted and turned it to ashes, and eventually those ashes will be gathered. From those very ashes of Jews dying and being killed because they were Jews, we are going to gather those ashes and sprinkle upon the one who came in contact with death, and they will purify us and enable us to come back to the Temple Mount.
And that ish tahor is a reference to Moshiach, to the great, great messianic day that will take place on this mountain. And here in this very spot, we're going to have that sprinkling of the pure water, the water to bring life, the purification, and here we’ll be able to be purified from all the impurities and the able to come back to the third temple. Amen. Shabbat shalom.

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Thank you Rabbi 🙏

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Thank you rabbi. This is really a mystery. The ashes of the holocaust purified us and made those who burned us unclean!

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When?

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Nonsense