Shalom, all! Welcome to my brand new website! If you’d like to read some of my older blog posts, please visit Gesher Tzar Me’od, my old Blogspot blog.
Shalom, all! Welcome to my brand new website! If you’d like to read some of my older blog posts, please visit Gesher Tzar Me’od, my old Blogspot blog.
Jake Best Adler 
Great stuff. Do you send out a weekly e-mail?
Some commentators point out that the two goats on Yom Kipur are similar to another ritual in Vayikra done by the Cohen. The two birds used in purifying a house from Tzaraat.(Vayikra 14:49) According to your read the second bird who is set free is parallel to the Goat for Azazel.
On a side note Azazel is a character in the X-Men universe and was in the movie X-men first class.
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Hi, Dan! Yes, I agree with that parallel. Azazel (the biblical figure) is a particularly fascinating topic to me. I don’t know the comic character as well, though I love Nightcrawler. I did cringe a bit when Kevin Bacon pronounced it “Uh-zay-zul.”
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