A vort from the Rebbe בנוגע Yom Kippur. We know that in the Beit Hamikdash, the main avodah on Yom Kippur was through the Kohen Gadol. And the pasuk says, וכפר בעדו ובעד ביתו, the Kohen Gadol, through doing his avodah, he brought a kaparah, forgiveness, for him and for his house. And the Gemara says that what does it mean his house? ביתו זו אשתו, it means his wife. And this is the basis of the halachah that the Kohen Gadol has to be married on the day of Yom Kippur in order to be qualified to do the avodah on Yom Kippur. And the Rebbe asks the question, why would it be that in order to do the avodah in Beit Hamikdash, in קודש הקדשים on Yom Kippur, the kohen has to be married? Why is that important? Especially when we know that one of the things that the Kohen Gadol had to do as a preparation for Yom Kippur, it says ז ימים, seven days before Yom Kippur, מפרישין כהן גדול מביתו, they would separate the Kohen Gadol from his wife. So how come in order to do the avodah, he has to be married?

And the Rebbe explains it based on another question. If the Torah wants to tell us that he forgives, he brings a forgiveness for him and for his wife, and from there we learn out he has to have a wife, he has to be married, why does the Torah use the word ביתו? Why couldn't the Torah say clearly, וכפר בעדו ובעד אשתו, forgive for himself and for his wife, very clear words. Why does it have to say house and we have to learn pshat and understand that means his wife, etc., etc.? So the Rebbe says that we have another Gemara, Gemara in Shabbos, Rabbi Yosi was trying to say different things, different hidurim that he had, different things that he was more careful with. And amongst those things, it says, אמר רבי יוסי, מימי לא קריתי לאשתי אשתי, אלא לאשתי ביתי. I never called my wife my wife; I called her my house. And the question is, what's so special about that? That's a big hidur and he called them house? Okay, so he called her house. What does that represent? What does that show?

And the Rebbe says, this is the pshat. The whole purpose of getting married and having a wife is to build a Jewish home, to do what the Oybershter wants, to build a Jewish home, to build, to bring Jewish children into into the world, and have a home which becomes a dwelling place for Hashem, to have a holy home, and that's the purpose of getting married and having a wife. So Rabbi Yosi, when he said, \"I never called my wife my wife, but my house,\" that means when he saw, or looked, and talked about his wife, he saw lechatchila the holy mission that's there in getting married, the mission of building a home. And that what's what he saw, cuz he saw everything in the world like that. So it's not only, even though he said it concerning his wife, but it shows us the level of Rabbi Yosi that he was able to see in everything that's there in the world to see the goal, the מטרה, the goal that the Oibershter wants of having this. So lechatchila saw the Godly mission that's there. So it expressed itself in saying, instead of אשתי, my wife, which could be in the physical way, he saw in that the רוחניותדיקע, the Godly mission that was given to him. And that's the reason why the Torah says וכפר בעדו ובעד ביתו, called the wife house. That means the כהן גדול, in order to do the avodah on Yom Kippur, has to be in such a level that when he looks at anything that's gashmi, he sees the spirituality of it, the רוחניותדיקע part of it, he sees the kedushah of it. And that's the reason the Torah refers to it as ביתו, and that's the reason why the כהן גדול has to be married. It doesn't mean he has to be married, he has to be in a level that he has a wife, and in the wife, he sees ביתו. He sees the tachlit of what the of the mission, of the holy mission that the Oibershter gave him. And that's a very high level, and that's the reason why there's a din that he has to be married in such a way that he sees in the אשתי, he sees ביתי, and that shows that that's his level in everything, that what he sees in in every גשמיותדיקע thing, he really sees its רוחניותדיקע purpose.