Rabbi Moshe New heads the Montreal Torah Center. He is sought out lecturer on Kabbalah and its relevance in our lives today.
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The only reason it came into being was because they then, made up the ashes of the red heifer - to cleanse them of death.
Did you consider that Mosheh killed an Egyptian ... and he ate the Passover in Egypt - defiled by death - as most everyone else did as well. They did not sprinkle did they???
Where was the Tent of Meeting or the Temple at ... where they brought up the lambs and goats to be killed??? They didn't even have one yet did they???
Of course - the 2nd Passover there was the Tent of Meeting as well as the ashes of the red heifer; and, because of NOW HAVING the ashes of the red heifer - one was to be cleansed from death to partake.
When the guys went to Mosheh and said - hey ... why can't we eat of it - it was not any brainstorm on Mosheh or Arron's part; BECAUSE ... they knew that just the year before - everyone ate it with death on them.
Why make this take on more air than it really holds?
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