In Judaism the book of Levititicus, speaks of Azazel, as the scapegoat, now also
of man’s sins, where a goat was to be sent out to him in the wilderness.
This is the basis for the practice still conducted today in Judaism as the ‘Day of
Atonement’ or ‘Yom Kippur’….now minus the goat.
1En,10- 6Again the Lord said to Raphael, Bind Azazel hand and foot; cast him
into darkness; and opening the desert which is in Dudael, cast him in there.
7Throw upon him hurled and pointed stones, covering him with darkness;
8There shall he remain for ever; cover his face, that he may not see the light.
9And in the great day of judgment let him be cast into the fire.
12All the earth has been corrupted by the effects of the teaching of Azazel.
To him therefore ascribe the whole crime.
Why would Holy GOD now ascribe a holiday to this Fallen Angel to his earthly children for worship?
Azazel's teachings were the cause of the first destruction, the Deluge and todays corruptions as well.
Satan also is a Fallen Angel..
And read the book of Job you'll find Satan there, just learn before you try to teach!!!
Same, learn a bit more about Judaism before you go with stuff to.
from wiki:
Azazel (Sayan) (
‘ăzaz’ēl) is believed to mean "God has been strong" or "God strengthens" from Hebrew
‘ăzaz, third person singular past participal form of
‘āzaz, "to be strong", and
’ēl, "God".
[1] Another theory uses
‘āzaz in its metaphorical sense of "impudent" (i.e., strengthened against someone) to mean "impudent to God". Azazel is also known by the variant spellings "Azael" "Aziel" and "Asiel."
In the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinical literature
The first appearance of the name "Azazel" is in
Leviticus 16:8, when
God orders the high priest
Aaron to "place lots upon the 2 goats, one marked for the Lord and the other marked for Azazel" on the Jewish
Day of Atonement. The goat designated by lot for the Lord is to be used as a sin offering, while the goat designated for Azazel "shall be left standing alive before the Lord, to make expiation with it and to send it off to the wilderness to Azazel" (Lev. 16:10). Aaron was to "lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and transgressions of the Israelites, whatever their sins, putting them on the head of the goat; and it shall be sent off to the wilderness by someone designated for the task. Thus the goat shall carry on it all their iniquities to an inaccessible region; and the goat shall be set free in the wilderness" (Lev. 16:21-22). Leviticus also says that "He who set the goat for Azazel free shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may reenter the camp" (16:26). This is the origin of the term
scape-goat (see below).
According to some scholars, the name
Azazel may be derived from
azaz meaning
strong,
rugged, or
grandeur/majesty, and
el meaning
of God or
strong, giving either
strong one of God or referring to the rugged and rough mountain cliff from which the goat was cast down .
[1] Some propose that Azazel may have been derived from the Canaanite god 'Asiz, who caused the sun to burn strongly.
The Talmud (Yoma 67b) identifies Azazel as the name of a cliff over which the goat was driven in the atonement ritual for Yom Kippur. This version was cited by the Biblical commentator Rashi, who took "azazel" to mean "rough ground" or "cliff," and this meaning was accepted by many Jewish commentators who wished to avoid contamination of the Torah by traces of polytheism or belief in demons.(wow seem to me that right here it's saying that the Jews don't believe in demons and to say so would be contamination to there holy book....kind of like what Christianity has done to it for the most part). Thus
Ibn Ezra took "Azazel" to refer to "a mountain near Sinai," while
G. R. Disker took the "rough ground" to be
Dudael, a rocky place where the fallen angel Azazel is imprisoned" (I Enoch 10:4-6). It has also been identified with Hudedun, "a rocky terrace in the wilderness, ten miles from Jerusalem." (The Torah, A Modern Commentary, p 1735, n. 4)
Azazel was translated as "scapegoat" in the King James Version of the Bible (1611).(oh and this right here says it all, out of all translations of the bible I find the KJV to be the worst, it's so of from a good translation- not that translating hebrew is easy but).King James' translators derived the word
scapegoat from William Tyndale's translation of the Bible about 1530, which split
azazel into the component parts
ez ozel: literally, the "goat that departs," hence "the goat that escapes," or, for short, "(e)scape goat."
[2] Since this goat, with the sins of the people placed on it, is then sent over a cliff or driven into the wilderness to perish (perhaps at the hands of the desert demon Azazel), the word "scapegoat" has come to mean a person, often innocent, who is blamed or punished for the sins, crimes or sufferings of others.
For more information see
Azazel in Rabbinic Literature.
Oh and here's a site for you done by a Jew that tells you how Satan is with in the Jews faith:
Does Judaism Believe in Satan?