The red heifer — parah adumah in Hebrew — is an unblemished and completely red cow that has never been put to work. The animal’s ashes are used to purify someone who has come into contact with a corpse and thereby contracted ritual impurity.
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Miniature of a red heifer illustrating a piyyut (liturgical poem) for Shabbat Parah. Caption: ‘Red heifer’. f. 28v of Festival prayer book (mahzor) for the Special Shabbatot, Passover and Shavuot, Ashkenazi rite. 1349, British Library
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