John D. Brey
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In the higher echelons of Jewish exegesis, the decree of the parah adumah, that is the red heifer, is understood ---because the Hebrew states it this way ---not as a decree like other decrees, but as the very decree that circumscribes the entire Torah scroll itself. Assuming we don't doubt the redoubtable Jewish sages, the red heifer in some way represents the totality, the purpose, the genesis and exodus, for every other decree found throughout the Tanakh. We could thus say that in effect, we're kinda whistling Dixie until we know the meaning of the decree of decrees, the decree of the red heifer. And who knows the meaning of the decree of the red heifer? Who will save us from this glaring deficit that we might stop whistling Dixie and perhaps start humming Just as I am?
John