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A detailed oil painting of the Scapegoat with a red thread tied around its horns, standing alone on the salt-crusted shores of the Dead Sea against a purple mountain backdrop at sunset.

Parashat Acharei Mot: Holiness & Atonement

Aharei Mot (“After The Death”) opens by describing the ritual service of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It then details the prohibitions of offering sacrifices outside of the Mishkan (Tabernacle) and of eating animal blood, and ends with a list of forbidden sexual relations.

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