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Evil may act as a husk which protects a fruit until it is ripe.
Part of the Yom Kippur sacrificial ritual in the Tabernacle and Holy Temple was sending a goat chosen by lot to be thrown off Azazel, a desert cliff, to its death.

'Satan' rejoices over the additional power granted him through this goat. But in truth, Sam-kel has been tricked by virtue of our repentance and has lost that portion of divine beneficence that was granted to him.

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