When I made my ssh key I added a password to the key. Right now I'm trying to write a script that will run some ssh and rsync commands. Unfortunately, since I have the password on my rsa key it prompts for the password every single time. Is there a way that I can prompt the user for the key passphrase once then redirect it into the ssh command?

** this is not an ssh user password. this is the passphrase for the key **