The goat carrying my frustrations, negativity and sins must be hurled over the cliff again and again, year after year. Literally, the Man of Time, the Man of the Moment. We are given no indication of who this person is who is entrusted with the great task of leading the scapegoat into the wilderness, and we do not know what happens to this person afterwards. He just appears. It is our Ish Iti , the person of the moment, who brings understanding and release by being at the right place at the right time, saying just the words we need to hear.
Timing is everything.
This is the month of Nissan, the first of months. Passover is here. Rabbi Judith Halevy is the Rabbi at the Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue in Malibu, California.