“Shabbat Shalom” – Chukat 5778
Parshat Chukat (Numbers 19:1 – 22:1) Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Efrat, Israel – “This is the statute of the law which God commanded, saying, ‘Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer’” (Num. 19:1–2). One of the most profound mysteries of the Bible is the rite of the red heifer, called a chok …