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Radomer Aid Society wishes its
members and community sup-
' porters a year full of health,
prosperity and happiness.
Min
thing different from the descrip-
tion of sacrifices given here. Per-
) haps, knowing the anwsome
power of the day, we expect the
_.* rumblings of revelation. The rab-
binic tradition, after all, suggests
that Yom Kippur was the time
when God gave the second tablets
to Moses and an encounter be-
tween the divine and human may
strike us as the appropriate text
for the day.
Perhaps we expect a high moral
message, a call toward ethical be-
havior. This too is not to be found
here. Indeed, this very omission
was solved by the choice of the
‘, Haftorah, the prophetic reading
from Isaiah, with its call "to
Thosen all the bonds that bind
people unfairly, to let the op-
pressed go free, to break every
yoke. Share your bread with the
hungry, take the homeless into
your home. Clothe the naked . . ."
Our Torah reading is some-
thing different. It describes in
,);Vivid detail the ritual of the two
goats — one sacrificed to the Lord,
> the other sent as expiation for the
people's sins to Azazel, into the
wilderness.
'D For us, this text is a strange
one. We live in a world distant
from sacrifice and this kind of
ritual. But it is important to think
_ of this Torah reading as more
than the reciting of a peculiar rite.
Think of it instead as a drama — a
double, perhaps even triple-edged
experience. The Leviticus reading
tells an ancient story, a story far
back into our people's origins:
This is the ritual that Aaron per-
Zformed, in deadly earnest and
with great care, when the Israel-
ites wandered in the desert. It is
mysterious event — no one knows
why it succeeded in expiating sin.
But this was God's decree and it
worked. If performed with care,
zin was expiated.
By way of contrast, our reading
begins with a reminder of the op-
posite effect: Aaron's two sons are
recalled, those who died when
they tried to write a different
script, offering the wrong kind of
sacrifice at the wrong time.
? ,-, Yom Kippur is a double drama.
Not only the performance in the
> wilderness described in our
Leviticus reading, but also, a ver-
sion of the same ritual was per-
formed in the Temple by the high
priest when the people were fi-
_ , Wally established in their land.
` That is an expanded and modified
> ritual, similar to what Aaron did
. in the desert, but not quite' the
same. On Yom Kippur we also re-
call that other rite through the re-
citation of the Avodah section of
the Musafservice. The echo of this
;.)ther expiation sounds on this day
as well.
And there is a third story too.
Our story. For us there is the
memory of the Leviticus rite, and
the recounting of the Temple
ritual in Musaf. But we have no
goat of sacrifice and no goat to
1 Azazel. We, living after Aaron's
time and after the Temple's de-
struction, have no drama of ac-
tion, but we do have the repository
of language. For us the repetition
of the words and the challenge of
prayer is the only route toward
atonement.
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