Let No One Be Present
Maamar of the Rebbe · ש"פ האזינו, שבת תשובה, ה'תשכ"ג · קונטרס וא"ו תשרי — תנש"א, Sefer HaMaamarim Melukat
A high priest enters the Holy of Holies once a year, and for that one entry even the angels have no standing. The maamar asks why the mitzvah of atonement — a mitzvah like any other — is what does it.
Download the Full Elucidated Edition (PDF, 28 pp)פעם אחת בשנה נכנס אדם אחד לחדר אחד, ובאותה שעה אין מקום לשום נברא — אף לא למלאך שדמות פניו פני אדם. והמאמר שואל דבר פשוט: מה יש בעבודת הכפרה, מצוה ככל המצוות, שמגיע למקום שאין בו מקום לאיש.
להורדת המהדורה המבוארת (PDF, 35 עמ')A bilingual study edition of the second maamar in the Tishrei 5723 set: why no one — not even an angel with a human face — may be present when the Kohen Gadol enters the Holy of Holies to atone, and what that exclusion reveals about the difference between teshuvah's atonement and the atonement of the day of Yom Kippur itself.
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