The YouTube video
that shows it is embedded here. (If you
receive my emails and the video is not embedded – HERE is the link.)
The interesting thing is that if you are as old as I am, this may not the first time you have heard about a real live Parah Adumah. In the late 70s, as I recall, there was an announcement of one being born at Moshav Komimius in E”Y. Some time later I asked somebody whatever became of it and I was told that it “turned black”.
I heard
about another one in E”Y about the time I made Aliyah in the late 90s.
The obvious
conclusion is that just like every generation has its “Moshiach” and Eliyahu
HaNavi on “standby”, there is also a Parah Adumah hanging around somewhere on
standby.
Yet it makes
quite an impression to know where it’s hanging around. Hey, from all of the
reported Parah Adumahs of the past, this is definitely the first one to make it
onto YouTube!
I just want
to focus a bit on what I just wrote that there is a Parah Adumah in every
generation. I mean that in more ways than one. This is because there are two
kinds of Parah Adumahs.
- A real one – as shown in the YouTube video above
- A philosophical one – I explained it in detail in a post I wrote almost six years ago.
The real one
has four legs, a tail, a head and an udder and a pure reddish brown coat. It is
all but impossible to find.
The
philosophical one has many blurry lines and is everywhere we look. It is all
but impossible to avoid.
Both are
metaher temayim and metamei tehorim and both are here in every generation.
Please see
my post on this from September, 2008 – HERE.
We truly
need both Parah Adumas. Only the real one can purify us from tumas meiss. But
only the philosophical one can help us understand the world we live in.
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