[Avodah] pairs and red

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 10:59:25AM -0700, Harvey Benton wrote:
: 1. why did peretz stick his hand out? (and more importantly, why did
: the midwives put a red string around his hand??)

Bekhorah, in both cases.

: 2. why red string by yericho (yehoshua)/
: why red string by azalzel??

And the red wool used in the sprinking of the parah adumah water.

: why red by marking bechorim for maaser???

And the parah adumah itself.

See Yeshaiayh 1:18.

Adom, the color of dam, related to the adamah, and the lowest color in
the rainbow, represents gashmius, according to RSRH. It's the counterpart
to tekheiles.

Thus the navi calls sin "adom".

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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