Translated by Rabbi Chanan Morrison
Parshat Chukat
Even King Solomon, renown for his great wisdom, failed to understand it. "I thought I would attain wisdom,"he admitted, "but it is distant from me" (Ecclesiates 7:23).
What was it that eluded his powerful intellect? The Talmud in Nidah 9a explains that Solomon was referring to the Parah Adumah, the red heifer whose ashes were used for ritual purification. The inner meaning of this ritual is uniquely profound, beyond the grasp of the human intellect.
Why is this mitzvah so intellectually challenging?
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