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Scapegoat: The Origins of the Crimson Thread - TheTorah.com
Scapegoat: The Origins of the Crimson Thread. During the Second Temple period, the scapegoat was tied with a crimson thread.…
The Scapegoat Ritual and Its Ancient Near Eastern Parallels - TheTorah.com
The Scapegoat Ritual and Its Ancient Near Eastern Parallels.…
Crimson to White: Yom Kippur's Miraculous Thread - TheTorah.com
in the eyes of this exegete, have been connected to the scapegoat and not to the red heifer.…
At 33, You Will Discover Azazel’s Secret - TheTorah.com
The Scapegoat is Not an Offering. After a long discussion of the ritual’s meaning, ibn Ezra turns to a comment by R.…
Regarding Azazel and Homosexuals in the Same Parasha - TheTorah.com
Categories: The Scapegoat. William Holman Hunt Year 1854–5. The New Opportunities Academic Torah Has to Offer.…
Yom Ha-kippurim: The Biblical Significance - TheTorah.com
Categories: The scapegoat. Leviticus 16. A print from the Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible illustrations. Wikimedia.…
The Protective Red Thread - TheTorah.com
Likewise, the Mishnaic version of the scapegoat ritual on Yom Kippur (Lev 16) includes binding a scarlet thread to the head of…
Is Azazel a Goat, Place, Demon, or Deity? - TheTorah.com
Later tradition obscured his identity, presenting Azazel as the name of a demon, as the scapegoat itself, and even as a place…
Does an Intentional Sinner Attain Atonement? - TheTorah.com
Leviticus 16 describes how the scapegoat ritual on Yom Kippur attains atonement for all of Israel’s sins, even acts of rebellion…
Recasting the Temple Purification Ritual as the Yom Kippur Service: Leviticus 16 - TheTorah.com
contaminating effects of Israel’s ritual impurities and her sins (verses 14—19); and the confession of Israel’s sins over the scapegoat…
Tzaraʿat Purification: A Vestige of Demonic Exorcism - TheTorah.com
The live bird is released to carry away impurity, in much the same way that the scapegoat is released to carry away Israel’s sins…
Is Atonement Possible Without Blood? A Jewish-Christian Divide
For a discussion of this ritual, see Noga Ayali-Darshan, “The Scapegoat Ritual and Its Ancient Near Eastern Parallels,” TheTorah…
On Sacrifices and Life: Wholeness Dismembered but Re-membered - TheTorah.com
problem. [3] This reflects the person’s designation if the particular animal as an offering and differs from the Yom Kippur scapegoat…
Confessing Sins You Didn’t Commit - TheTorah.com
For a discussion of this ritual in its ancient Near Eastern context, see Noga Ayali-Darshan, “The Scapegoat Ritual and Its Ancient…
Meeting the Challenge of Critical Scholarship with Leviticus - TheTorah.com
I learned the different sacrifices, the various laws of purity and impurity, the Yom Kippur ritual with its lottery and scapegoat…
King Saul’s Downfall: Sight and Sound: Sight and Sound - TheTorah.com
Williams’ incisive analysis, which associates Saul’s mishandling of sacrifices with Saul’s role as a scapegoat, though from a…
The Mystical Ritual of Hoshana Rabbah: Summoning God - TheTorah.com
Sending the scapegoat to the demon Azazel carrying all of Israel’s sins (Lev. 16:21-22) would be a classic example of this.…
Demigods and the Birth of Noah - TheTorah.com
Nahmanides even connects this verse with an obscure myth explaining the name of Azazel—the being that receives the scapegoat in…
Does the Birthright Law Apply to Reuben? What about Ishmael? - TheTorah.com
University Press, 1979), 4. [13] Carmichael, Law and Narrative in the Bible, 142–145. [14] Calum Carmichael, “The Origin of the Scapegoat…
Yom Kippur and the Nature of Fasting - TheTorah.com
Indeed, according to Maimonides, the scapegoat (שעיר המשתלח) only atones for sin if you repent.[1] Maimonides adds: משנה תורה,…
Judah’s Speech to Joseph: The Subtext - TheTorah.com
If so, Judah would be communicating to Joseph that Benjamin is an especially helpless scapegoat.…
The Book of Ruth: A Serious Comedy - TheTorah.com
the missing link to her dead husband’s family continuity, and a grandson to Naomi.[16] As in the comedic genre, there is a “scapegoat…
Why Do We Read the Incest Prohibitions on Yom Kippur? - TheTorah.com
The morning’s Torah reading about the sacrifices and order of Temple service for Yom Kippur, including the scapegoat, serves,…
Yom Kippur: Afflicted but Angelic - TheTorah.com
the tradition (which may reflect a knowledge of the poetic composition), scriptural quotations describing the ritual of the scapegoat…
Let Me Flee to My Helper: A Rosh Hashanah Love Poem - TheTorah.com
birth of Isaac on the first day of Rosh Hashanah followed by his near-sacrifice on the second day; the strange ritual of the scapegoat…
