“They shall take to you a…red heifer” – Rabbi Yosei ben Rabbi Ḥanina said: The Holy One blessed be He said to Moses: To you I am revealing the rationale of the heifer, but for another, it is a statute, as Rav Huna said: It is written: “When I set a time, I will judge with equity” (Psalms 75:3), and it is written: “It will be on that day, there will not be light, pleasant [yekarot] vekipaon” (Zechariah 14:6).
Yikfaon is written.40See II Kings 6:6, where the word vayazef meaning: It floated, is translated by Targum Yonatan as ukfa. Thus yikfaon is interpreted as “will float.” Matters that are obscured from you in this world41“There will not be light.” are destined to float to the surface [tzofim] in the World to Come, like that blind person who can see [detzafi], as it is written: “I will lead the blind on a way they did not know” (Isaiah 42:16).
And it is written: “These are the matters that I have done, and I did not abandon them” (Isaiah 42:16). It is not written here, “I will do,” but rather, “I have done,” as I have already done for Rabbi Akiva and his colleagues. Matters that were not revealed to Moses were revealed to Rabbi Akiva and his colleagues. “Everything obscured [yekar] his eye has seen” (Job 28:10) – this is Rabbi Akiva and his colleagues.
Rabbi Yosei ben Rabbi Ḥanina said: He intimated that all the heifers will cease, but yours will endure.42This is expounded from: “They shall take to you.”