A vort for, in this week's parshah, Parshat Tetzaveh. Parshat Tetzaveh we learn about the בגדי כהונה, the garments of the Kohanim, including the garment of the Kohen Gadol. One of the garments of the Kohen Gadol was the מעיל. And it says that one of the things the מעיל had was on the bottom he had רימונים, pomegranates made, looking like, things looking like pomegranates, and bells. And the reason for the bells is ונשמע קולו בבואו אל הקודש, so when he comes, the Kohen Gadol comes into the קודש, it should make noise. And all kinds of reasons given in the meforshim why we need that. But the bottom line is this is what it was. But on Yom Kippur, when the Kohen Gadol went to the קודש הקדשים, he didn't wear the same garments. Those garments did not have the רימונים, the pomegranates on the bottom and the bells on the bottom. What is the reason?

And the Rebbe explains the reason is like this: The pomegranates at the bottom, they represent a low madreigah type of Yidden. The lashon in the Gemara is אפילו פושעי ישראל מלאים מצות כרימון. Even the Yid who are not so good are also full of mitzvot, like a רימון, like a pomegranate has so many seeds. So the רימון represents people on a low madreigah, and that's why this was on the bottom of the מעיל, on bottom of the shirt, because this represents the people in a low madreigah. Why do we have to represent the people on a low madreigah? Because when the Kohen Gadol did his avodah in the Beit HaMikdash, it was representing all the Yidden, every kind of Yid. And in order to show that he even represents people who are all the way on the bottom, as the little expression goes, on the bottom of the pot, all the anything Yid that's in the bottom, to represent him, so he had רימונים, which רימונים reminds us of the inyan of פושעי ישראל מלאים מצות כרימון, that the Yidden who are not so good are full of mitzvot like a pomegranate. So this was why they had the רימונים, to include them also. And that's why they also had to make noise, because people like that, when any good thing that they do is with noise, it's with effort, because they're not in this madreigah, so they do it with effort. So when you do something with effort, you make noise. Because when someone is like running away from a fire, he screams, he makes noise. There's a vort, a mashal of the Baal Shem Tov. Someone asked the Baal Shem Tov why chassidim when they daven make all kinds of tenuos, movements and noise. So he said, \"Imagine somebody is drowning and is trying to save himself. He makes all kinds of motions and noises and sticking his hands out and etcetera, etcetera. But that's because you're trying to go do something that's against your nature, trying to fight your yetzer hara, so it comes along with noise.\" So therefore, the Kohen Gadol, who represents all the Yidden, when he did the avodah in the Beis Hamikdash, had to have these rimonim on the bottom to represent them too, that they are also included in his avodah.

But that's only throughout the year. But on Yom Kippur, because Yom Kippur, the Yidden are in a higher madregah, all the lowest Yidden are very close to Hashem, and therefore there you don't have to do something special to represent them. All throughout the year, there are different madregot in Yidden, so you have to represent even those Yidden that are on a very low madregah. But on Yom Kippur, all the Yidden are in a high madregah, so you don't have to have it, and that's why on Yom Kippur he didn't wear this garment which has the bells and has the rimon. The bells represent the noise that is made, and that's only throughout the year when the Yidden, those Yidden on a low madregah make the noise because they have to put in effort, because they're in a low madregah. So you had to have the pomegranates at the bottom and you had to have the bells. But on Yom Kippur, which as Yidden are all on a very high madregah, it says they're like malachim, and בכלל it says the Yidden are connected, the יחידה שבנפש is shining in every Yid, is connected to Hashem, there they didn't need, the Kohen Gadol did not need the rimonim, the pomegranates at the bottom which represents those Yidden, because they're not in a low madregah anymore that day, and also didn't have the noise, because the noise represents when a person is doing something that he has to fight his yetzer hara. But here, when a Yid is in a high madregah, it didn't need the bells to make that noise.