how could Abraham's ram get trapped in a thicket? the way of the Azazel:
Genesis 22:13
And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep
fixed by its horns in the brushwood:
and Abraham took the sheep and
made a burned offering of it in place of his son.
[YESHAYAH(Isaiah) 53:8]
. how could a ram get its horn caught in the bushes?
notice the ritual of the scapegoat
in which a goat is pushed over a cliff;
that is how a ram could get its horns
into but not out of a thicket.
wiki:
Once a year, on Yom Kippur,
the Cohen Gadol took two goats
and presented them at the door of the tabernacle.
Two goats were chosen by lot: one to be "for YHWH",
which was offered as a blood sacrifice,
and the other to be the scapegoat to be sent away
into the wilderness.
Later in the ceremonies of the day,
the High Priest confessed the
intentional sins of the Israelites to God
placing them figuratively on the head
of the other goat, the Azazel scapegoat,
who would symbolically "take them away".
Leviticus 16:8-10
8 And Aaron will make selection from the two goats
by the decision of the Lord,
one goat for the Lord and one for Azazel.
9 And the goat which is marked out for the Lord,
let Aaron give for a sin-offering.
10 But the goat for Azazel is to be placed living before the Lord,
for the taking away of sin,
that it may be sent away for Azazel into the waste land.
the Azazel scapegoat pushed over a cliff:
Michael V. Frazier 2009:Ancient rabbinical traditions read azal for "rugged" and el for "strong,"
and thereby understood the word to refer to
a rugged mountain cliff, from which the goat was pushed.
. the Jewish Mishnah (Yoma 6:2-6)
indicates that the man who delivered the goat
to the "uninhabited place" or "isolated place" (i.e. the desert)
would push the goat over a cliff backwards.
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