Daily Study: Hayom Yom

See Vayikra 16. This was part of the Yom Kippur rites. Two goats were chosen by lot, one "for G‑d" to be offered on the altar, the other, the scape-goat, to be cast down Azazeil, a rocky mountain in the "desolate land," the wilderness, "bearing their sins."

This sentence (like the ones preceding it and following it) continues the emphasis on the ubiquity of evil in this world, exclaiming that a procedure involving banishment of evil was even part of the sacred service within the holy Jerusalem sanctuary!