Correct placement, is necessary for offerings to be valid.”
Somewhere along the way of this journey through the pages of the Talmud, I picked up on the fact that the Rabbis were critical of the priests who ran affairs during the time of the Temple. By the time the Talmud was transcribed, that mantle was handed to the Rabbis. Today’s Daf Yomi portion provides a good view into how the Rabbis perceived the priests from previous generations.
The red heifer was the star attraction of purification rituals when the Temple was standing. The priests built ramps to transport the precious red heifers from the Temple where they were collected to the Mount of Olives where they were slaughtered. The red heifer, which was raised for the purpose of purification, could be in danger during the journey through the city of Jerusalem of becoming contaminated from a source of impurity. After the slaughter, the priests had to carry the slaughtered heifer back to the temple for the purification cere
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