The Red Heifer
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Overview
In this week’s Torah portion we are looking at Numbers 19:1–22:1
Moses is taught the laws of the red heifer, whose ashes purify a person who has been contaminated by contact with a dead body.
After forty years of journeying through the desert, the people of Israel arrive in the wilderness of Zin.
Miriam dies, and the people thirst for water.
God tells Moses to speak to a rock and command it to give water. Moses gets angry at the rebellious Israelites and strikes the stone. Water issues forth, but Moses is told by the Lord that neither he nor Aaron will enter the Promised Land.
Aaron dies at Mt Hor and is succeeded in the high priesthood by his son Elazar.
Venomous snakes attack the Israelite camp after yet another eruption of discontent in which the people “speak against God and Moses”; God tells Moses to place a brass serpent upon a high pole, and all who will gaze heavenward will be healed. The people sing a song in honour of the miraculous well that provided them water in the desert.
Moses leads the people in battles against the Amorite kings Sihon and Og (who seek to prevent Israel’s passage through their territory) and conquers their lands, which lie east of the Jordan.
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Chuqat 2021 includes:
What is a statute?
The Red Heifer
Exposure to death
Jesus the Red Heifer
See Chuqat Midrash 2021.
Torah (NKJV)
Torah (with Rashi)
Torah (with Hebrew and Strongs)
Haftarah (NKJV)
Haftarah (with Rashi)
New Testament (NJKV)
New Testament (With Greek)
Portion Overview by Video
How Snakes Help us Confront our Fears
Why Did Moses Hit The Rock?
Young Children
Why did Moses, Aaron and Miriam not enter the land of Israel?
Colouring in
Older Children
Teens
Musical Midrash
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Water from the rock
Beer Battered BBQ Schnitzel
This Year
Chuqat Midrash 2021
Chuqat Midrash 2021 includes:
The Rock which followed Israel
The death of Miriam
The well of Miriam
Moses strikes the rock
Edom says no to Israel passing through
The death of Aaron
The serpent on a pole
Messiah and the serpent
The miracle at the valley of Arnon
Sihon and Og – Amorite kings
Previous Portions
Chuqat 2020
Chuqat 2020 includes:
What is Chuqat?
The Red Heifer
What is a statute?
The father of fathers of all uncleanness
The Red Heifer of Messiah
The clean man
The Red Heifer In The New Testament
The Heavenly Tabernacle
Other Teaching On Chuqat
The Red Heifer – Ps Kyal Cumming
The Red Heifer
The Ramp To The Mount of Olives
The Bronze Serpent on a Pole
Job’s Spring Tabgha -Miriam’s Well
Mt Hor
The Valley of Arnon
The Kingdom of Moab
The Kingdom of Moab and the Amorites
The Different Types Of Commandments (Mitzvot)