Parshat Chukkat, 5779/2019 thought

I don't find it so surprising that the person who sprinkled the water of the ashes of the Parah Adumah (Red Heifer) to purify someone or some object became impure himself.  After all, a person who changes a diaper is likely to get dirty, and a person who gives a child a bath is likely to get wet.  :)

Here's a previous entry of mine concerning Chukkah, in which I protest that Moshe wasn't given time to mourn for his own sister.


My posts are standing-on-one-foot average-person versions.  Here's what a scholar, Dena Tannor Weiss (Rosh Beit Midrash at Hadar), has to say about Parshat Chukkat.