Purification at Sunset
The elders of Israel used to go first by foot to the Mount of Olives, where there was a place of immersion. The priest that was to burn the cow was [deliberately] made unclean on account of the Sadducees so that they should not be able to say, “It can be done only by those on whom the sun has set.”
Notes
Text in brackets appears in the original translation.
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m. Parah 3:7, from Mishnah Yomit, trans. Joshua Kulp, www.sefaria.org. Originally from https://learn.conservativeyeshiva.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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