Anything in Common?  Approaches to Holiness?

From the Portion we see that
The Holiness of the Temple is maintained by laws restricting access from people in contact with the deceased , or dead animals considered Tamay - ritually detracting.

Yom Kippur Holiness is included Temple rituals to reinforce the above rules,
And
Year long maintenance of Ritual Purity was mostly related to rules of the Red Heiffer (from this Portion) with the implication that 

"the COW's ashes were TO expiate for sinning at the Golden CALF" -

and other missed opportunities-

 to maintain a Holy lifestyle after the Exodus from Egypt.

These thoughts are Based on the Talmud .

 

In a parable by Rebbe Bachman of Breslav

(Maybe a totally different approach to maintaining Holiness)

Many birds and animals find shelter in tree

but then they start to argue.

 

Isn't that life? Never satisfied?

Its not birds and animmals, its about us!

So THE TREE DISAPPEARS! Where did it go?

In life - who gets what place? What's left after arguments?

Soon after, then the Holy Wise Man appears, and explains 

Because
"space" (in the shelter of the tree?) 

 is down here;

 
but PEACE AND TRUTH ARE IN HEAVEN -

 

so he tells the animals (the people) 

just LOOK UP AND SEE STRAIGHT!
And you will see the tree! (The tree of Life from the Garden of Eden?)

In a simply direct HUMAN way,

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach taught (a little with my extending his deep words - sent from Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo)

"Let me ask you friends, when a person G-d forbid gets defiled by a dead body, how does he purify himself? 

Okay/ The Red Heiffer! What's that?