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Shevuot 13

A tale of two goats

May 14, 2025

Today’s Talmud page, Shevuot 13, discusses one of the Torah’s strangest rituals, one involving two goats on Yom Kippur. How does sacrificing one goat and launching the other into the wilderness mirror the repentance each of us must make? And what does Satan have to do with it? Listen and find out.


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