“And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:”
For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water shall be added in a vessel — the first explicit mention of 'fresh water' (mayim chayim, living water) mixed with the heifer's ashes. Living water suggests vitality, spring-water, flowing renewal; it symbolizes life overcoming death. The mixture of ashes (from burnt death) and living water embodies the paradox: death's residue combined with life's symbol.
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