Parah Adumah

68 cm x 98 cm
acrylic paint on fiberboard
text: description of the Red Heifer ritual from Numeri (Bamidbar) 19 (fragments)

The central element represents the Jewish camp in the desert, the ritual of burning the Red Heifer took place outside the camp, on the eastern side. From Red Heifer’s ashes mixed with water, mei nidah was prepared for purification from ritual impurity of the one who became impure from contact with corpses.