[Avodah] Where on the Mount of Olives would the Para Aduma be prepared?

[Zev Sero]

On 27/4/21 6:43 pm, Micha Berger wrote:
> Yes, the broken keilim are because you couldn't use them after using them
> to eat qodshim. My point was that the din of having to do something from
> where you can see the miqdash was often the mountainside. Suggesting
> this was true in general, suggesting parah adumah may not have been
> any different.

But there is no din that you must eat kodshim from where you can see the 
mikdash.  Kodoshim kalim can be eaten throughout Machane Yisrael. Both 
in the Midbar and in Yerushalayim you could not see the mikdash from 
most of Machane Yisrael.  And in Yerushalayim most of the places from 
which you *could* see the mikdash, i.e. the surrounding mountains, were 
*outside* the Machane and therefore one could *not* eat kodshim there.

The Para Aduma had to be done davka outside the Machane, and thus in a 
place where kodshim *can't* be eaten, but in a place from which the 
Mikdash *could* be seen.

Therefore I don't think the findings at Shilo can shed any light on the 
Para Aduma site's location.

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Zev Sero            Wishing everyone a healthy summer
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