Did and until when in the Galilee were purified of red cow? And what is the connection to the history of Beit Shearim? Holidays
While the Temple existed, one of the most significant and important issues was its purity and purity. Without purity, various rituals cannot be performed. Priests cannot eat donation and sanctification, a Jew cannot sacrifice and eat from the Passover offering, it is not possible to go up to the Temple Mount and this is only a partial list of topics that cannot be sustained without purity.
The most severe impurity is a dead impurity, which is impure by the person being impregnated by contact with a dead person or staying in the same confined space. The impurity is considered so severe that in Jewish law it is defined as 'the father of the unclean ancestors'. To purify this impurity, a special mechanism is needed, part of which is the use of red cow ash.
On the Mount of Olives they would burn a red cow, the ashes would be kept in jars and jars, and when they had to be cleaned, a pinch of the red cow's ashes would be mixed with water, and the mixture called 'water of sin' would pour over the person who came to purify as part of the purification process.
Where would they keep the ashes? Many automatically think that the ashes were kept in the temple. But there is a fundamental problem, since you cannot enter the temple when you are unclean, and if you have not gone through the purification process you cannot enter. It is clear, then, that a cow's ashes had to be kept out of the sanctuary, to allow the unclean people to go through this process who had sinned and only then could enter the temple.
The Mishnah does say: and divide it into three parts A is given in the corps and A is given in Mount Ointment and A would be divided into all the guards: (para mask chapter C, subchapter 11). The supplement adds and explains: dividing it into three parts, one sold in the soldier and one giving on the ointment, one dividing all the vigils, which was divided into all the vigils. Chapter C went hand in hand). That is, according to the Appendix, the one preserved in the corps (the fence that surrounded the temple and the separation between the temple and the courtyards of the Temple) was intended only for safekeeping and not for use. The other two parts are for use. The third of the Mount of Olives is intended for use in Jerusalem, while the people of Israel throughout the country used a third that is preserved in various places throughout the country.
It therefore appears that in the days of the household, one third of the ashes of the red cow would have been preserved in various parts of the country. Do we know where the ash reservoirs have been kept for the purity of dead Tamai?
The silence of the sources on the subject does not allow us to know exactly where the storage of red ash was. At the same time it is interesting to see the following discussion from the days of the conditions (100th century CE) "A tube that cut into sin (= sin) - R. Eliezer says impure and need not be baptized, and R. Joshua says impure and baptize. Not to be baptized, unclean, and the act of one who cut a tube in Beit Shearim