[Avodah] Puzzling Targum Yonasans

[Doron Beckerman]

Regarding the "Mezuman Md'Eshtakad". Perhaps (not sure if this is Pshat,
Drush, or ridiculous) this is based on the Medrash the Chizkuni brings down,
that they chose someone upon whom it was decreed that he would not live out
that year to do the Shiluach LaAzazel. (He implies that this was based on
reading into this person's Mazal.) Since this was on Yom Kippur, when the
decree for the coming year vis-a-vis life and death was made based on the
actions of the prior year, perhaps we can say that the Meshaleach was
determined 'from the previous year' (before Rosh HaShanah), i.e. based on
his actions during that time.
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