If you enjoy stories that mix mystery with a hint of danger, Azazel is a name worth remembering. He is not one of those gentle mythical figures who guide heroes or bless villages. Azazel belongs to a ...

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 ...

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 ...