Thursday, July 07, 2022

Red heifer detergent?

DR. JOSEPH WEINSTEIN: Red Heifer: A Soap Ritual (TheTorah.com).
After contact with a corpse, a person must be sprinkled with a liquid mixture containing the ashes of a red heifer, together with cedar and ezov, alkaline plants that, when burnt, function as the key ingredients in a detergent.
For more on the red heifer rite, include a modern effort to revive it, see here and links and here.

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