According to the Torah, someone who comes into contact with a dead body becomes halachically 'impure.' Even its hooves have to be red. Instead, Jesus taught that no one knows the day or hour of Christ's return (Mark 13:32). 1 Sat 1 July 2017 – 7 Tammuz 5777 B”H Dr Maurice M. Mizrahi Congregation Adat Reyim Torah discussion on Chukkat Why the Red Heifer? In all the history of Israel only nine red heifers have been sacrificed, the last one about 2,000 years ago in 15 AD. 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. He took pains to point out that Melody, who is a darkish red, may not be the genuine article because of several imperfections. A pure red heifer is a rare animal. Building a Third Temple in Jerusalem is the dream for the messianic branches of Judaism and Christianity. Not in Israel, apparently. Shore said pure red heifers seem to have died out in Israel since the post-temple period, and that it is rare to see a red heifer without white or black spots. The existence of such a heifer is considered a biological anomaly and very rare. A dream that partially rests on the discovery of a Red Heifer, a cow with a special status in Jewish tradition. The laws of the red heifer are presented at the very beginning of the Torah portion of Chukat: This is the statute of the Torah which the L‑rd commanded, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel and have them take for you a perfectly red unblemished cow, upon which no yoke was laid.”2. It must also never have been used for any labor or have been impregnated. The Great Hebrew sage Maimonides (1135-1204 AD) claimed that the 10th red heifer would herald the coming of the Messiah. The heifer, born from a natural birth, must be entirely red, with no more than two non-red hairs on its body. The appearance of a pure red heifer has long been taken as a messianic sign. When you touch a corpse, you become tamei – impure.-That, by itself, is comprehensible: Death is to be … The red heifer (Hebrew: פָּרָה אֲדֻמָּה ‎; para adumma) (female bovine which is never pregnant or milked or yoked), also known as the red cow, was a cow brought to the priests as a sacrifice according to the Torah, and its ashes were used for the ritual purification of Tum'at HaMet ("the impurity of the dead"), that is, an Israelite who had come into contact with a corpse. Exclusive: Burning of Red Heifer Takes Place in Preparation for Third Temple. Red heifers are a dime a dozen in many parts of the world. When I wrote about the red heifer in my book, people weren’t really talking about it. Fortunately, the ritual requires an infinitesimally small quantity of ashes. 11 is the number of chaos and something that rises out of these ashes and remember, this was declared a pandemic by Trump on 3/11. And this isn’t about a 11th Red Heifer, but there is a 11 connection to all of this. A red heifer will likely be involved in the temple practices in the future, but many red heifers could appear between now and that time. There is no source in Jewish tradition that sees the birth of a red heifer as a sign of the arrival of the Mashiach. The ritual This week's Torah portion, Chukkat, begins with a very mysterious commandment: The Red Heifer (or red cow, parah adumah). Though rare, the sighting of one red heifer is not necessarily a sign that the temple will be built at any moment. As rare as it may be, the birth of a red heifer is nothing more than a curiosity. By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz August 15, 2019 , 8:42 am. Supposedly a pure red heifer has not been born in Israel for a very long time (I can't recall if it's since the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD, or even before that).