Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 134:5

אמר רבא מסתברא כמאן דאמר מותרין לא אמרה תורה שלח לתקלה

Our Rabbis taught: Azazel - it should be hard and rough.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Az and el mean strong, irresistible, impudent.');">⁹</span> One might have assumed that it is to be in inhabited land, therefore the text reads: 'In the wilderness'. But whence do we know that it [is to be in] a Zok?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Zok means a mountain peak; it may be the special name of the mountain whence the he-goat was flung down.');">¹⁰</span>

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