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The Most Mysterious Law In The Torah – Chukat
How can contact with the red heifer defile the ritually pure, while purifying the ritually impure?   Table for Five: Chukat  Edited by Salvador Litvak, the Accidental Talmudist This is the statute of the Torah which the Lord commanded, saying, ...
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