The strangest and most dramatic element of the service on Yom Kippur, set out in Acharei Mot (Lev. 16: 7-22), was the ritual of the two goats, one offered as a sacrifice, the other sent away into the ...

And Aaron shall place lots upon the two he goats: one lot “For the Lord,” and the other lot, “For Azazel.” Spiritual leader and author Eckhart Tolle noted that “after two ducks get into a fight, which ...

Rambam says that some rules are “Supra-rational” – these are rules that appear irrational and beyond our logical understanding. He gives as examples three practices regarding animals – the Azazel, the ...

The strangest and most dramatic element of the service on Yom Kippur, set out inAcharei Mot (Lev. 16: 7-22), was the ritual of the two goats, one offered as a sacrifice, the other sent away into the ...

In the days of the Beit Hamikdash the focal point of Yom Kippur was not the stirring the melody of Kol Nidrei, which we have just recited, or the heartfelt pleas of Neilah. It was instead the ritual ...