Rabbi Shlomo Aviner is head of Yeshivat Ateret Yerushalayim and author of over 250 books on Torah, Halakha, and Jewish Thought. Very often, I am asked, “Is it a Torah commandment to live in the Land ...

In Temple times, detailed procedures governed ritual purity, including the use of ashes from the red heifer to remove impurity and allow entry into progressively holier areas of the Temple complex.

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