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\nRed heifer being burnt 1 July 2025<\/em>
\n(Screenshot from Israel National News via Israel365News<\/em>)<\/p>\n

COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n

Israel365 News<\/em> posted the following:<\/p>\n

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Update and Clarification Regarding the Red Heifer from the Temple Institute and the Sanhedrin<\/h2>\n

November 13, 2025<\/p>\n

The burning of the red heifer on July 1 marked a significant moment in Jewish tradition, sparking considerable discussion. The Temple Institute, which has long been preparing for this ritual, issued its first official statement on the event, …<\/p>\n

Additionally, the Sanhedrin has issued its own statement regarding the event, lending further clarity and direction to the ongoing process. …<\/p>\n

Over a decade ago, the Temple Institute launched its red heifer project and tasked Rabbi Azariah Ariel with studying the subject in depth.<\/p>\n

It should be emphasized that the red heifer is used to purify the nation of Israel from impurity resulting from proximity to or contact with a dead body. This state of purity is necessary for Jews to ascend to the Temple. Non-Jews do not become ritually impure and do not enter the Temple, so the mitzvah of the red heifer is not relevant to them, though the Talmud describes the purchase of a red heifer from a non-Jew to be used to purify Jews for the Temple service. …<\/p>\n

On July 1, a red heifer that had been housed at Shiloh by the Boneh Israel<\/em> organization was prepared and burned on a pyre of wood<\/a> at an undisclosed location in Samaria. The ceremony was carried out by a Kohen (a Jewish man descended from Aaron the priest). The cow was one of five red calves that were brought from Texas to Israel by Boneh Israel<\/a> in September 2022<\/p>\n

The Temple Institute statement reads<\/a> as follows:<\/p>\n

In light of incorrect information that has been published regarding the red heifer, the Temple Institute would like to announce:<\/p>\n

1. For about ten years, the Temple Institute has been engaged in preparations for producing the ashes of the red heifer, both from an educational and practical perspective. The observance of these commandments, the raising of a red heifer according to Torah law, and the production of kosher ashes for the purification of the ritually impure, is very complex and includes thousands (!) of details, which require great knowledge and skill in execution. Therefore, the process also includes a number of practical experiments and exercises.<\/p>\n

2. About three months ago, a practice was held in the Samarian mountains, in which a simulation of the making of the ashes of the red heifer was conducted.<\/p>\n

3. Of course, ashes of the red heifer that are not made on the Mount of Olives while facing the site of the Holy Temple are completely invalid (Mishnah, Para 4:2; Rambam, Para Aduma 4:5). Therefore, we clarify that the simulation was only<\/em> an exercise, part of a series of exercises …<\/p>\n

4. For this reason, the ashes were mostly left by us in place without any care on our part. …<\/p>\n

5. Anyone who claims otherwise, that the heifer was kosher and the ashes produced from it are kosher for the purpose of purification, is mistaken and misleading, either intentionally or unintentionally.<\/p>\n

6. There are currently four red heifers at the Shiloh site, some of which are owned by Rabbi Ariel, head of the Temple Institute. Their halachic<\/em> status has not yet been definitively determined, and we are monitoring them.<\/p>\n

7. The real red heifer will be made, G-d willing, when we have a kosher red heifer …<\/p>\n

After deliberation, the nascent Sanhedrin released a statement regarding the event:<\/p>\n

Sanhedrin Decision from the 19th of Cheshvan, 5786 [Nov. 10, 2025]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ruling of the Sanhedrin Court on the Matter of Red Heifer Ashes<\/strong><\/p>\n

We sat together as one court. …<\/p>\n

Anyone who invents something other than the Seven Noahide Commandments causes those who listen to him to sin, and this includes anyone who invents that the ashes from a red heifer exercise purify Gentiles, or heals Gentiles, or anything else \u2013 such a person is among the fraudsters and swindlers, and one must distance oneself from him and distance him. https:\/\/israel365news.com\/413978\/update-and-clarification-regarding-the-red-heifer\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s address some of these issues.<\/p>\n

First of all, the Sanhedrin is right that a red heifer sacrifice (like the one in July or a future one) does not purify Gentiles (or scripturally anyone else in the church age).<\/p>\n

The New Testament teaches us the following:<\/p>\n

11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer<\/strong>, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:11-15)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Christians do not need any heifer, but certain Jews who reject Jesus’ sacrifice think that the Jews do.<\/p>\n

Secondly, we see that the Temple Institute has officially declared that that July 1st sacrifice of a red heifer does not count.<\/p>\n

A few months back, a reader who has attended CCOG church services asked if I had watch a particular video on the red heifer (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5bW_S2ho1bE<\/a>), and I said I had not. Anyway, I later watched it. It featured Adam King who held up a packet of what he said were ashes from the red heifer that was sacrificed and burnt on 1 July 2025.<\/p>\n

He made several claims about this sacrifice:<\/p>\n