Thursday Nissan 24, 5703 9th day of the Omer
Chumash: Acharei Mot, Chamishi with Rashi.
Tehillim: 113-118.
Tanya: In addition to (p. 225)...hands and so forth. (p. 225).
It is customary not to recite the B'racha She'he'che'yanu during the days of the Omer count.
We all possess an element of "non-good."
Why, the scapegoat (representing evil, banished to Azazeil) [1] was actually a service in the Beit hamikdash! [2]
A physical created being inevitably has a negative element, but we must banish that evil to a "desolate land."
Notes:
See Vayikra 16.
was part of the Yom Kippur rites. Two goats were chosen by lot, one "for G-d" to be offered on the altar, the other, the scape-goat, to be cast down Azazeil, a rocky mountain in the "desolate land," the wilderness, "bearing their sins."
This sentence (like the ones preceding it and following it) continues the emphasis on the ubiquity of evil in this world, exclaiming that a procedure involving banishment of evil was even part of the sacred service within the holy Jerusalem sanctuary!