Zot Chukat HaTorah

This discourse was delivered by the Rebbe on Shabbat Sedra Chukat (Diaspora), 5725 (1965). Rabbi Shneur Zalman explains that the Red Heifer is called the Statute of the Torah because it expresses the central theme of all Torah: advance toward the Divine and return to the world. The discourse develops this teaching, showing how the paradoxical law of the Red Heifer encapsulates the dual movement that underlies all Jewish spiritual life.