October 20, 2006

What the azazel?

Ben Bradlee's wife Sally Quinn describes Donald Rumsfeld as the administration's scapegoat.

One wishes that she'd at least done a little research before she wrote:

(The word for scapegoat in Hebrew means, literally, "into hell.")

The terms "La-azazel" in Hebrew is roughly the equivalent of "go to hell." And indeed, the rocky mountain that the "scapegoat" was thown down was called Azazel. But that's as close as it gets.

Posted by SoccerDad at October 20, 2006 12:29 AM
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