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See a flag, recognize a country. Wear a logo, demonstrate your loyalty to a sports team. Plant a sign on your lawn, and demonstrate your fealty to a candidate, cause, or proposition. Take a skiff out for the day, and in Lady Liberty\u2019s shadow you might get a glimpse of America\u2019s loftiest ideals. When you see Lady Liberty standing guard at a courthouse, you might be momentarily reassured that justice is blind. Symbols are shorthand for whole constellations of complexity, and they help us move through the world without too much explaining along the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s chapter features a powerful symbol, but one of an especially intriguing kind. The Red Heifer has come to stand in for the boundaries of rationality and the persistent force and charisma of the illogical. It is the paradigmatic commandment-without-a-reason, and in that capacity the unusually tinted bovine gives heft and presence to all the ways that we are subject to commands and demands from forces beyond our control. The ultimate domestic animal recalls the rampantly undomesticated nature of the cosmos; the logic of the backyard collides with a realm where questions have no answers and cause and effect wander with no real acquaintance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What about the red? From all accounts, the cow is otherwise ordinary, besides for its hide. The very capriciousness of the criteria enacts the arbitrariness it personifies, and maybe that is a lesson, too; the line between the rational and the arbitrary, the logical and the mystical, the explainable and the exasperating, is just skin deep. The Red Heifer is still a cow, just a little bit different. A genetic splinter, a pigmentary outlier, yes, but not fundamentally different. 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