09 Apr RED HEIFER, AMALEK, AND REACTIONS OF NATIONS

You must be living
under a rock if you
didn’t come across one
of the thousands of
videos and articles
published recently
about the Red Heifer
(Para Adumah). It seems like everyone is
nervous about it. What scares people so much
about the Red Heifer?
We are now in the month of Nissan, which
was set as the month of the final redemption,
as Chazal said(יא השנה ראש (:” In Nissan we
were redeemed (from Mitzrayim) and in
Nissan we will be redeemed when Mashiach
comes.” Proceeding to the month of Nissan,
we read the four special Haftarot. Starting
with Shekalim, continuing with Zachor, which
is to remember what Amalek has done to us
and reaffirm our obligation of wiping out the
seed of Amalek. Then we read the parasha of
the Red Cow (Parah Adumah), and finally end
with the sanctifying of the new month of
Nissan. Is there a connection that passes
through all of them?
We are all familiar with the first Rashi in
Parashat Chukat that says the red cow is
named a chukah (a decree) since the nations
harass us over it, saying, “What’s the reason
for such a mitzvah?” Therefore, the Torah says

it’s a chukah, meaning a mitzvah with a reason
that isn’t known to us. For many years, I asked
a couple of questions. The first is that Rashi
continues later and gives a reason for the
mitzvah, that it’s to atone for sin, what we call
teshuva. Secondly, I asked that I never heard
the nations ever harassing us over the red cow.
I always explained that the nation’s harassment
is over the concept of teshuva, as Christianity
doesn’t believe in doing teshuva, and thus
they tease us by saying that since the cow
represents teshuva, it’s really false and has no
meaning.
Although that is a beautiful explanation,
recent events have given rise to a new
explanation as suddenly many harass us over
the red cow. Since the war started in Israel,
there have been literally thousands of videos
about the red cow, called in English the red
heifer. It seems like the whole world is busy
with the red heifer except the Jews. Even
Hamas spokesmen Abu Obeida, who appears
once in a while with his face covered with
keffiyeh, warned about the Jews planning to
bring the red heifer.
When Hamas spokesman spoke at the mark of
the 100th day of the war, he explained to
everyone’s surprise that the reason Hamas
opened the war was because the Jewish people
are preparing to bring the Red Heifer. It is

truly strange that someone as
important as a spokesman would
speak about “spiritual myths”
instead of talking about concrete
reasons such as what they claim to
be a war over the occupied land.
But why is this happening, and
why now?
In order to understand this
correctly, we need to look at the
reading of the Shabbat before
reading about the Parah Adumah
(Red Heifer), when we read about
Amalek. In Bilaam’s prophecy, he
said(כ,כד במדבר (:” Amalek is the first among
nations [to declare war against the Jews], and
in the end, [at the final war], he shall be
destroyed”, teaching that Israel’s first war was
with Amalek and also the last war before the
arrival of the Mashiach. That means that we
are facing today a war with the same Amalek.
But who is Amalek today?
We are accustomed to thinking that only the
Germans are the Aryan race, since the Nazis
claimed to be the pure Aryan race. However,
in reality, the original Aryan race is the
Persian-Indo, showing an ethnic link between
Germans and Iranians. Many are familiar with
what many rabbis have said, that Germany is
Amalek, apparently linked to Haman the
Amalekite. Since Haman was Persian, we
can see that the Persians, who are an Aryan
race, are the same Amalek of Haman that
continued to spread to Germany and Iran.
If so, we can understand that when the Torah
speaks of remembering Amalek, it’s pointing
to the last war indicated by Bilaam that will
take place with Persia. This is actually how
the Gemara(ב ,ב זרה עבודה (points out that
the last war will be between the Christian
power and Persia.
It’s fascinating to see that the Gemara points
out the nature of today’s Persians, who are
compared to a bear. They eat and drink
copious amounts like a bear, they are fleshy
like a bear, they grow their hair long like a
bear, and they never rest, like a bear. The
meaning of “eat and drink” is that they
weren’t directly involved in wars but rather
let their many proxies fight for them while
they sit comfortably in their towns, eating
and drinking. This is also the meaning of
growing hair; obviously, it doesn’t mean
they literally grow hair as it’s Hashem who
grows the hair on a person. Rather, it means
that they grow their proxies on all sides and
over the Middle East, much like hair grows
all over. This is the reason they claim to have
fought many wars and not rest, as they mean
they armed and controlled all those proxies.
The Gemara continues to say that after
Mashiach comes, Hashem will ask them,
“With what did you occupy yourselves?”
They will respond before Him: “Master of
the Universe, we have built many bridges,
we have conquered many cities, and we have

fought many wars”, Indeed, as they do today,
they build, arm, and prepare many nations to
fight their many battles.
The next Shabbat reading after Amalek is
Parah because the Para Aduma (Red Heifer) is
the only sacrifice brought outside the Beit
Hamikdash (The Ramban mentions that the
nations are bothered by the fact that the Para
Aduma is brought outside the Temple), and
this drives the world crazy. But why? Because
they know that the majority of Jews don’t go
into the Temple Mount, what they call El
Aqsa, because they aren’t pure. Purity will
only come once we have a Red Heifer and
undergo the process needed to purify ourselves
from impurity. Then we can all enter the
Temple Mount. The Muslims are very scared
of that event because they know that
redemption will then take place once Jews
enter the Temple mount, and they will be
forever doomed. Since they feel this event is
very close, they are extremely nervous and
scared.
This fear is sincerely based on the
who ,) הלכות פרה אדומה פ״ג ה״ד)Rambam
fascinatingly records that there are 10 Red
Heifers throughout time. The first was made
by Moshe, the second by Ezra, seven others
were made until the destruction of the Beit
Hamikdash, and the last ten will be done by
Mashiach.
This is the reason for the thousands of videos
and articles warning about the Red Heifer
phenomenon. Moreover, this is the reason
they started a war to prevent us from moving
forward with the Red Heifer. This is evident in
the name of the war – Tufan El Aqsa, the storm
of El Aqsa. The war is all about the Temple
Mount.
We all know that this last war is a religious
war between the evil forces of Iran, who we
explained are Amalek, and Israel. This
religious war remarkably is over the Temple
Mount as they try to do everything to delay the
coming of the Mashiach. But this doesn’t help
them, as symbolized by the reading of the
Haftarah of Hachodesh HaZeh, which comes
right after the weekly reading of Parah. This
symbolizes the new month, the month of
redemption that comes with the victory of the
Jewish nation over their enemies, after the
purification done by the red cow and the
destruction of Amalek.