- What color does the Parah Adumah (Red Heifer) have to be?
A. Blue
B. Brown
C. Red
D. Rainbow - What kind of animal is the Parah Adumah?
A. Sheep
B. Goat
C. Cow
D. Donkey - What is the Parah Adumah used for in the Torah?
A. Making hamburgers
B. Helping people become pure
C. Riding into battle
D. Getting milk - How many hairs can be the wrong color before the cow is disqualified?
A. 10
B. 5
C. 2
D. 0 - What can the Parah Adumah never have done?
A. Moo
B. Work or carry anything
C. Sleep
D. Eat grass - Where in the Torah is the Parah Adumah first mentioned?
A. Genesis
B. Exodus
C. Numbers
D. Deuteronomy - What is done with the ashes of the Parah Adumah?
A. Made into paint
B. Sprinkled to purify people
C. Buried
D. Sent to Egypt - True or False: A Parah Adumah must be completely spotless.
- What makes the Parah Adumah so special and rare?
A. It talks
B. It glows
C. It’s hard to find one that fits all the Torah’s rules
D. It has magical powers - Who is the only one allowed to burn the Parah Adumah?
A. The king
B. A prophet
C. The Kohen (priest)
D. A farmer
✅ Answers:
C. Red
C. Cow
B. Helping people become pure
C. 2
B. Work or carry anything
C. Numbers
B. Sprinkled to purify people
True
C. It’s hard to find one that fits all the Torah’s rules
C. The Kohen (priest)
Chukat Jokes
- If a cow wears red lipstick, does that make her a Parah Adumah?
- Why didn’t the Red Heifer become a firefighter?
Because she was already good at putting out spiritual fires! - What do you call a really clean cow that helps people become pure again?
A holy moo-purifier! - If the Red Heifer went to school, would she pass the Torah test or just moo at the questions?
- Why didn’t the Parah Adumah play hide and seek?
Because she was too rare to find! - What’s the Red Heifer’s favorite dance move?
The purification shuffle! - What do you call a cow that never had a scratch, never worked, and is completely red?
Extremely high maintenance. - If the Parah Adumah joined a superhero team, what would her power be?
Turning people from “tamei” to “ta-daa!” - Why did the Red Heifer never play in the mud?
She didn’t want to mess up her fancy red coat! - What does the Parah Adumah say when she walks into the Beit Hamikdash?
“Moo-ve over, I’m here to purify the place!”
Short Dvar Torah
Dvar Torah for Kids – The Mysterious Red Cow
This week in the Torah, we learn about a very special cow called the Parah Adumah — the Red Heifer.
It had to be totally red — no black or white hairs — and it had to be perfect, never used for work. It was used to help people become pure again if they had become impure.
But here’s the crazy part: the cow made the other person pure, but the Kohen (priest) who helped with it became impure himself! That’s so confusing!
Even King Solomon, who was super smart, said, “I don’t get it!”
So what does that teach us?
It teaches us that sometimes we don’t have to understand everything to trust Hashem. Some mitzvot are mysteries, but we still do them because we know Hashem loves us and knows what’s best.
So next time something in the Torah feels confusing, just remember the Red Cow and say: “I may not get it… but I still do it!”

