How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Hebrews 9:14
Death seems to be the source of all uncleanness. Dead bodies and dead works both defile a person.
Sacrifice and washing can temporarily remove the uncleanness of contact with physical death, but only the sacrifice and washing of Yeshua can permanently remove the uncleanness of rebellion against God's Law which brings eternal death.
The sacrifice of the red heifer is one of the most enigmatic rituals commanded in Torah. The specific instructions aren’t difficult to follow if you read carefully, but the purpose of each instruction is elusive.
Why does the Water of Separation (mai nidah) make a clean person unclean and an unclean person clean? Why does one person need to wash his clothes and body to resolve a state of uncleanness, while another person only needs to wash his clothes?
Here's a hint: Everything points to #yeshua!
https://americantorah.com/2024..../07/23/yeshua-and-th
Since there's no altar or Temple, laws about the red heifer don't apply directly at this moment, but we can still learn from them. But the whole red heifer deal doesn't make a lot of sense. Why a heifer? Why red? What's up with the ashes? God said what to do, but not why. There could be any number of reasons for this. Here are 4 possible explanations...
https://soilfromstone.blogspot.....com/2017/06/about-t