*****What is the main point to learn from the Para Aduma?  (Red Heifer)

When a Jew is contaminated by coming in contact with a dead person, he is spiritually contaminated and has to go to the Kohain. The Kohain then takes ashes from a Red Heifer mixed with water and sprinkles it on the spiritually contaminated person and they become purified.

However, the Kohain who sprinkles these ashes then becomes contaminated.

The lesson here is (1) to teach us that a Jew must always try to reach out to help another a person even at the expense of getting hurt in the process; and (2) the Red Heifer comes to teach us that when HaShem gives us a law we must never question HaShem and say this does not make sense to me.

We must keep all the mitzvot at all times.

By Rabbi Joseph Kon

*****Our Sages Teach Us That…. Instead of saying I need……ask “where am I needed?” One little shift changes everything. Self-sacrifice doesn’t mean jumping off a bridge. Self-sacrifice means surrendering the self. It means that instead of saying, “I need…”you ask, “Where and for what am I needed?”                                                                                                                                          Wherever a sincere, good deed is done, that self-sacrifice breathes within it. Without it, nothing really changes. With it, everything changes.

By Rabbi Tzvi  Freeman

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