An Impure Process - Chronicle Online/The WORD 03/05/2026
Weekly On-line Rabbi's D'var-Torah March 5, 2026 16 Adar 5786 Shabbat Parah Parashat Ki Tisa In a text as long and as old as the Torah, there are bound to be some wacky things. But of all the bizarre rituals in the Torah, perhaps none is stranger than the Red Heifer ceremony we will read about this Shabbat. In Numbers 19, we learn that a completely red heifer—its hide, flesh, blood, and even its dung—was entirely burned, together with cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson thread. T











