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October 21, 1990
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The Ashes of the Red Heifer
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On the trail of the holy cow
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Vangard Notes >>>
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In August of 1989, Ron and I had the pleasure of meeting
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David Fasold at a conference in Denver. David has found what
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is believed to be the original Noah's Ark, located
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approximately 15 miles from Mount Ararat. The Turkish
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government has now built a state funded park on the site in
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honor of the archeological importance of the finding.
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David is a fascinating man with many experiences to relate.
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Among the many things we discussed were the Ark of the
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Covenant and the Ashes of the Red Heifer. We are working on
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a detailed article relating David's discovery. He has an
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excellent hardback book out entitled, "The Ark of Noah". We
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recommend it highly if you are interested in such
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information.
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In conversation with David, he mentioned that he was to go
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on a speaking tour with Vendyl Jones, the original
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inspiration for the Indiana Jones movie character. Vendyl
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lives in Arlington, TX and David arranged for us to meet him
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on the trip he made to Dallas in October of 1989.
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Vendyl is head of a group "the Institute of Judaic-Christian
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Research" which actively seeks to develop understanding
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between the Jewish and Christian traditions.
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Vendyl's lovely wife Zahava is a native of Israel and very
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familiar with the areas of which the Qumran manuscripts
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speak. One of the scrolls is made of beaten copper and is
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over 7 feet long.
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There is an inscription on the scroll which purports to
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disclose the location of the Ark of the Covenant and the
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artifacts associated with its use. Scholars had dismissed
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the inscriptions as myth or legend having no basis in truth.
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When Zahava read the text of these inscriptions, she
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recognized some of the landmarks to which the scroll
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referred. Her translations in addition to those of scholars
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in ancient Hebrew have pointed out definite areas in the
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region which might hold these artifacts.
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For many years now, Vendyl and his group have sponsored and
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actively dug in the caves of this region in search of the Ark
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and the associated artifacts.
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Last year, Vendyl found a flask of holy oil used to annoint
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the heads of high priests and kings. There is an ongoing
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hope that they will succeed in finding these lost treasures.
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The Institute operates a BBS at 817-346-1038 which reports on
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their activities and is open to all.
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The Ashes of the Red Heifer when found and mixed with the
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ashes generated from the ritual sacrifice of a new red
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heifer, will presage the re-establishment of the Sanhedrin
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(Jewish ruling Council) and lead to the rebuilding of the
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third Temple in Israel. The first and second were each
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destroyed centuries ago.
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It has all the makings of a sci-Halacha thriller. A young Torah
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scholar in Jerusalem enlists the help of a prominent geneticist in
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Beit Dagan, an ex-Southern Baptist minister from Texas, and a
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veterinarian in Sweden to unlock the secret of ritual purification
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for worship in the Holy Temple.
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But Menahem Burstin, a scholar who specializes in the Temple
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service, insists that his search for the rare red heifer is not a
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swashbuckling adventure: it is serious research aimed in part at
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taking the fear out of such practices as animal sacrifices.
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"My father taught me kodashim and tohorot (orders of the Mishna
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dealing with the Temple service) when I was a child, so for me these
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subjects were natural." Burstin said last week in his tiny book-
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lined apartment in Jerusalem's Romema quarter. "But when I lectured
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about the Temple - to ultra-Orthodox, national-religious. Netorei
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Karta, kibbutz youth - I found that people were scared by the idea
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of sacrifices and consequently scared of the rebuilding of the
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Temple."
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On the advice of leading rabbinical figures like Rabbi Zvi Yehuda
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Cook and Rabbi Eliezer Schach, Burstin began researching the more
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"esthetic" aspects of Temple service, like incense offering.
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He consulted with botanists and painstakingly gathered herbs and
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spices from all over the world to find the ingredients required by
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the Torah for such offerings.
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Later, his studies led him to explore the mystery of Techelet, a
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bluish (some say violet) dye that was used in the Temple and that
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was also prescribed for the fringes of the tzizit.
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After nearly 14 years of researching the dye, which is produced by a
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sea-creature called the hilazon, Burstin published a book on the
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subject last year.
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At the same time, he began a worldwide search for the red heifer,
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used during Temple times to "purify" those who had become ritually
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unfit through contact with the dead.
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The reasons for the mitzvah of the red heifer are not clear - King
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Solomon said of it: "I thought I would have wisdom but it is far
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from me" - but the specifications for such a cow are quite explicit:
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it must be pure red (even two black hairs render it unfit),
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must have no blemishes, and
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must never have borne a yoke.
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During his search, Burstin came across two herds of red heifers. A
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South African herd was reported by Tzvi Katz, an Israeli researcher
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who specializes in poultry. The cows, a brownish-red were crossbred
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by farmers looking for a more sturdy breed.
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But a more promising find was reported by Ronen Yahid, a student at
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Machon Meir in Jerusalem.
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"He is a hozer bitshuva (newly religious) Jew from a kibbutz in the
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north, and was sitting in on a lecture where he learned for the
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first time abut the red heifer. He raised his hand and told his
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rabbi that he'd seen such cows on a visit to Sweden. His rabbi said
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it was impossible, butthe student insisted that he had seen them,
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and so he was sent to me for questioning."
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Burstin was convinced that the student's report was worth following
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up, and contacted the owner of the herd, a woman veterinarian, who
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sent pictures of her red cows.
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He said he would ask Stockholm Chief Rabbi Aharon Katz, who is
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visiting Jerusalem, to inspect the cows personally to see whether
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they are pure red.
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But even if the inspections turns up more than two black hairs,
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Burstin is confident that genetic engineering can produce a kosher
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red heifer. "I have been in touch with Dr. Yehuda Waller of the
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Volcani Institute, a world-renowned expert in breeding cattle, and
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he assured me that if the cows' hair is mostly red there is a
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possibility of improving them."
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If the Swedish cows prove to be suitable, Burstin will import a
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frozen embryo and implant it in local cows.
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Burstin's goals are educational, not practical. He has no intention
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of racing up to the Temple Mount with his red cow and declaring open
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season for sacrificing.
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In the first place, there remain some serious practical problems,
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and in the second, he can't second-guess G-d's plans for a third
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Temple.
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"I don't have to do G-d"s thinking for Him," says Burstin, 33, who
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studies at Mercaz Harav Kook in Jerusalem. "But I have an obligation
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to study all the laws in the Torah, including those relating to
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Temple service. This form of research is exciting because it brings
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to life all the verses and the mishnaic and talmudic literature on
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the Temple service."
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According to the literature, the red heifer is burned together with
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eitzerez, eizov and tola'at shani (cedar-wood, hyssop and scarlet).
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Burstin is convinced that he has accurately identified these items -
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the scarlet, for instance, is a colour made from Crimson Worm - but
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he lacks one vital ingredient: the ash of a previous red heifer that
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must be mixed with the new ash.
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The solution to this problem may rest with Vendyl Jones, a former
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Baptist minister from Texas, who has studied in yeshiva.
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Jones divides his time between running a religious centre in the
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U.S. that promotes the observances of the seven Noahide laws, and
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the search for vessels from the Temple in the caves of the Judean
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desert.
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"He is using the Copper Scroll discovered in 1952, which describes
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the relative location of the vessels. It doesn't say exactly where
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they are located, but at what level they can be found," says
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Burstin.
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"That scroll tells where the `kalal' is located, and the kalal was
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the vessel that held the ash of the red heifer."
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Vendyl, who has already located a vial of oil that was used to
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anoint kings, claims that he has found the cave that houses the
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kalal. But once he finds the container and, presumably, the remnants
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of the previous red heifer, he must find a way to extract it.
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"Once he touches the kalal it becomes tameh (ritually unfit), and it
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loses its effectiveness," says Burstin. "I have brought him to the
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chief rabbis and we are looking for a solution to the problem. But
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we don't have it yet."
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There are other problems (finding a ritually fit Kohen to do the
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service, for instance) and possible solutions, but for the time
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being Burstin is taking one step at a time.
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Reprint, Fee Paid, Jerusalem Post
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Additional information regarding the Red Heifer follows.
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Quotes are taken from "The Holy Bible in Modern English" translated
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direct from the original Hebrew, Chaldee and Greek languages by
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Ferrar Fenton.
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The verse relating the sacrifice of the Red Heifer is found in
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Numbers under the heading THE NATIONAL SACRIFICE FOR SIN.
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The EVER-LIVING also spoke to Moses, Commanding; -
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"The following is a constitutional law which JEHOVAH commands,
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saying; - Command the children of Israel to select for you a
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RED HEIFER, perfect, and who has not a spot on her, which has
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never been under a yoke.
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Let them bring it to Aliazar the priest, and he shall slay her
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in their presence. Then Aliazar the priest shall take some of
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her blood on his finger, and sprinkle the front of the Hall of
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Assembly seven times with the blood, and burn the heifer in
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their sight with its skin, and flesh, and its dung. He shall
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burn it to dissolution.
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Then the priest shall take cedar and hyssop wood, and scarlet
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wool, and ashes from among the cinders of the heifer.
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"The priest shall then change his clothing, and wash his body
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with water, and afterwards return into the camp. But the
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priest shall be unclean until the evening. Those who burnt her
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also shall change their clothes, and wash their bodies in
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water, and be unclean until the evening.
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"Afterwards a clean man shall remove the ashes of the heifer
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and place them outside the camp in a clean place, and they
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shall be as a witness to the children of Israel to KEEP
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THEMSELVES FROM THE IMPURITY OF SIN.
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Now this is the procedure for creating what is termed a SIN-
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OFFERING. The ashes yielded from this procedure are used for the
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purification of what is termed UNCLEAN, part of which is specified
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in the following:
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1) Whoever touches the corpse of a man shall be unclean for
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seven days. If he offers a SIN-OFFERING on the third day,
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then he shall be clean on the seventh day; but if he does
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not offer a SIN-OFFERING on the third day HE SHALL NOT BE
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CLEAN on the seventh.
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Whoever touches a corpse, - the body of a man who dies, -
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and does not make a SIN-OFFERING at the sanctuary of the
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EVER-LIVING, is defiled; and that person shall be
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EXCOMMUNICATED from Israel, because he has not washed the
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filth from off himself with water; he shall be unclean
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while the impurity is on him.
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2) "These are the laws about persons who have DIED IN A
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DWELLING. All who come to the dwelling, and all who are in
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the dwelling ARE UNCLEAN for seven days. Every vessel,
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also, which is open, unless there is a lid upon the
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opening, is defiled.
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And whoever TOUCHES A MAN KILLED IN FIGHT, OR THE BONES OF
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A MAN, OR KILLED ACCIDENTALLY, shall be defiled for seven
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days.
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You shall consequently take to the defiled person SOME OF
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THE ASHES OF THE FIRES OF SIN-OFFERINGS, and put them on
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LIVING WATER, in a cup, and take hyssop and dabble with the
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water the man who is to be purified, and sprinkle it upon
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the dwelling and over all the furniture, and over all the
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persons who may be there, and over the man who has touched
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the bones, or the slain, or the dead by accident, and
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sprinkle the purification upon the defiled at the third
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day, and upon the seventh day, and make a SIN-OFFERING for
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him upon the seventh day, and he shall change his clothes
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and bathe in water, when he shall be purified at evening.
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But the man who is defiled, and does not offer a SIN-
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OFFERING, that person shall BE EXCLUDED FROM THE ENTRY INTO
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THE HOLY ASSEMBLY OF THE EVER-LIVING......Therefore this
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shall be a PERPETUAL INSTITUTION to you; and for this
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reason the filthy shall change their clothes, and who
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touches anything filthy shall be unclean until the evening;
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and all that touches him who is unclean, shall be unclean,
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and the person he touches shall be unclean until the
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evening.
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It is interesting to note that the 2nd injunction states that the
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ASHES FROM THE FIRE OF A SIN-OFFERING are to be used for the
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purification and do not necessarily require the Ashes of the Red
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Heifer.
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The instructions for the actual burning of the Red Heifer end by
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stating that the ashes are to be removed to the outside of the camp
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in a clean place as a WITNESS to the children to keep themselves
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pure from sin.
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Another interesting series of instructions involve the proper
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construction of an altar. This comes from Exodus.
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Then the EVER-LIVING said to Moses, "Say this to the children
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of Israel, you have seen that from the heavens I have spoken
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with you. Never make for yourselves a God of silver, or a God
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of gold. You shall not make them for yourselves.
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You shall make an altar OF EARTH for Me, and you shall offer
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upon it your SACRIFICES and your thank offerings, your sheep,
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and your oxen. In every place where I record MY NAME, I will
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come to you and bless you.
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But if you make AN ALTAR OF STONE to Me, it SHALL NOT BE OF CUT
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STONES, for if you carve with a cutter upon it, then it will be
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polluted.
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And you SHALL NOT PILE UP PYRAMIDS FOR AN ALTAR so that your
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nakedness may not be discovered when you go up to it.
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Since the writing of this article, Vendyl told us that they
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have indeed found a Red Heifer as perfect as called for in
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the ritual. It was 10 months of age in October of 89' when
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Vendyl spoke of it. One of the other requirements is that
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the heifer could not exceed 4 years of age.
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Also since that time, Vendyl and the rabbis have come up with
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a solution as to how the touching of the Kalal (container for
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the ashes of the red heifer) by the unfit can be avoided.
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Vendyl's sons are studying to become Kohen and therefore
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ritually fit to handle the Kalal.
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There are many aspects of Jewish tradition which we find of
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interest, especially those which relate to some form of
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device, ritual or geometry. Many of the Vangard Sciences
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include the use of geometries and devices to accomplish
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specific functions.
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Just as a comment, a friend of ours from England worked with
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a group involved with the Teslar (ELF) watches on a Jewish
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device known as the Tiflin. The Tiflin is a device used for
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ritual meditation and to assist the aspirant in establishing
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contact with G-d. (Jewish tradition forbids the use of the
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word GOD when written, thus the o is left out)
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The Tiflin consists of a headpiece and an armband (for the
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left arm), both made of leather. An area is provided in the
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armband and headpiece to hold paper printed with specific
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quotes from the Koran or other Jewish religious texts. These
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must be written in Hebrew.
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The left armband is attached at the heart level. The nature
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of the text determines the purpose of the meditation. Our
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friend said a test was done with the Tiflin using blank
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papers or suitably inscribed papers in the Tiflin chambers.
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When, unbeknownst to the operator, blank paper was placed in
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the chambers, the energy field measured during the meditation
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was extremely weak. When the Hebrew inscribed texts were
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placed in the chambers, a powerful energy field emanated
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during the meditation.
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We do not know if tests were also done using different Hebrew
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quotes although it would follow that the intensity and
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"flavor" of the energy would be dependent on the nature of
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the quote.
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Another interesting thing is the Ark of the Covenant and its
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use. There is every probability that the Ark somehow
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functioned as a storage chamber for the life force of the
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being which was sacrificed in its presence.
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Ritual magic includes the sacrifice of animals and humans for
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the purpose of releasing their life force. A properly
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trained operator could then capture and redirect that force
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for the carrying out of specific purposes.
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Comments made by mass or serial killers include statements
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that they get a "rush" when the victim expires. No doubt a
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great part of this is the psychological thrill of being
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dominant over a helpless victim, although the release of life
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energy must play a part.
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topics as this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or
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Thank you for your consideration, interest and support.
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Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson
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