Important Message Regarding This Lesson
The Daily Mitzvah schedule runs parallel to the daily study of 3 chapters of Maimonides' 14-volume code. There are instances when the Mitzvah is repeated a few days consecutively while the exploration of the same Mitzvah continues in the in-depth track.
Positive Commandment 113 (Digest)
The Red Heifer
"And it shall be as a keepsake for the congregation of the children of Israel"—Numbers 19:9.
We are commanded to prepare a red heifer [as detailed in the Torah], to have it ready for the procedure of purifying those who are ritually impure as a result of contact with a corpse.
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> The 113th mitzvah is that we are commanded to prepare the red heifer;) to have it ready for the procedure of purifying those who are tameh as a result of tumas meis.;)
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> The source of this commandment is G‑d's statement;) (exalted be He), "[A ritually clean person shall gather up the cow's ashes and...] it shall be a keepsake for the congregation of the Jewish people."
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> The details of this mitzvah are found in the tractate devoted to this subject, tractate Parah.
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> Footnotes
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> To slaughter it, burn it, gather the ashes, etc.
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> See P107.
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> Num. 19:9.