Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 107:14

מתיב רב חנא בר רב קטינא מעשה בכהן אחד שהיה מתעסק וכו' אמר ליה נתגרשה קא אמרת נתגרשה חזרו לחיבתה הראשונה

R'Kattina said: Whenever Israel came up to the Festival, the curtain would be removed for them and the Cherubim were shown to them, whose bodies were intertwisted with one another, and they would be thus addressed: Look! You are beloved before God as the love between man and woman. R'Hisda raised the following objection: But they shall not go in to see the holy things as they are being covered,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. IV, 20.');">¹⁸</span> in connection with which Rab Judah in the name of Rab said: It means at the time when the vessels are being put into their cases?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is said of the Levites in the wilderness, who, whilst carrying the vessels on their shoulders, were not permitted to look at them before they were covered. How much less would the Holy of Holies be profaned by being shown to the masses who had come to celebrate the Festival; the Cherubim being above the mercy-seat in the Holy of Holies.');">¹⁹</span>

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