The Rebbe peers at Lemuel over the drumstick he is gnawing on. “You are probably wondering, it is a relevant question, by all means ask it, what coded signal Yahweh is sending to the resident scholars and visiting professors at the Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Chaos-Related Studies when He decrees that the goat must be selected by lot, which is to say, at random. My thesis makes the case that Leviticus 16:8-10 should maybe be seen as the heart of the heart of Torah, more important even than the manifesto of monotheism in Deuteronomy 6:4, ‘Shema yisro’eyl, adoynoy eloheynu, adoynoy ekh-o-o-o-d.‘ … ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.’ In Leviticus 16:8, Yahweh, a consummate poker player, He normally holds His cards close to
