Yom Kippur 5723

Alef Kabbala Group (26 Sept 06), discussing the Lubavitcher Rebbe's discourse for YOM KIPPUR "And No Man shall be in the Temple [at the moment when the High Priest enters the Holy of Holies]"(Lev.16:17) 5723 (SHM Tishrei p74). The Jerusalem Talmud explains this means even no angel would be in the Temple at that time. An earlier discourse by Rabbi Menachem Mendel the Tzemach Tzedek (1789-1866) says this implies that when the High Priest enters the Holy of Holies he is in a realm beyond the down-chaining of the spiritual worlds. At that exalted level all sins are atoned. Our discourse, taught in 1962, explores this theme and takes us to higher and higher levels of holiness.