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Bamidbar {19:16} Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be tam'ei seven days. {19:17} For the tam'ei they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin-offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel: {19:18} and a tahor person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave: {19:19} and the tahor person shall sprinkle on the tam'ei on the third day, and on the Sabbath: and on the Sabbath he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be tahor at even. {19:20} But the ish who shall be tam'ei, and shall not purify himself, that nefesh shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of HaSHEM: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is tam'ei. {19:21} It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be tam'ei until even. {19:22} Whatever the tam'ei person touches shall be tam'ei; and the nefesh that touches it shall be tam'ei until even. Have you ever heard of anything so unusual? HaShem told the Leviim to take a mixture of the ashes (consisting of a red heifer, cedar-wood, hyssop, and scarlet) and combine it with water and used it to sprinkle upon anyone who has become tamei (ritually unclean) for any one of a variety of reasons. The application of this mixture would have the affect of making the person, who had become tamei, tahor (ritually clean). Now, that sounds unusual enough, but what is even more unusual is that we are told that while the one who the mixture is sprinkled on becomes tahor, the one who is doing the sprinkling become tamei. It is as if they trade places! The truth of the matter is that this is not so unusual if you know the Brit Chadasha (Renewed Covenant) and what it says about Yeshua HaMashiach when He took away our sin (changed us from tamei to tahor). In that light that, the procedure of the sprinkling of the red heifer and the tamei person becoming tahor and the tahor person becoming tamei makes a lot of sense. Yeshayahu (Isaiah) {53:5} But He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. {53:6} All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and HaShem has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. Compare this passage from the Tanach (Hebrew Scripture), with these passages from the Brit Chadasha. Kefa Alef (1 Peter) {2:24} Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed. Korintim Bet (2 Corinthians) {5:21} For He has made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of G-d in Him. The red heifer had to be spotless, without the slightest defect. Yeshua was spotless, without sin. The red heifer was used to cleanse anyone who was unclean. Yeshua cleanses the unclean. The clean person who sprinkled an unclean person with the red heifer mixture himself became unclean, while the person sprinkled with the mixture became clean. Yeshua who was clean, when He took upon Himself our sin became unclean while those of us whose sin He took became clean. There are many such types which are found in the Tanach, that point to Yeshua HaMashiach, the problem is neither the Pharisees of Yeshua’s day nor the greater majority of the Jewish people today see them. Speaking to the Pharisees who rejected His Messiahship Yeshua said: Yochanan (John) {5:38} "And you do not have His Word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent. {5:39} "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is these that bear witness of Me; Baruch HaShem Rabbi Jack (Ya'acov) Farber |
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