Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 139:9

הרואה כהן גדול כו' לא מפני שאינו רשאי פשיטא מהו דתימא כדריש לקיש דאמר ריש לקיש אין מעבירין על המצות

He would conclude with: '[Blessed art Thou, O Lord] who hearkenest unto prayer.' Thereupon each would bring a scroll of the Torah from his house and read therefrom, in order to shew the multitude its beauty.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To 'adorn oneself' before Him in the performance of His commandments, i.e., to perform them in a manner aesthetically satisfactory is a duty which our Rabbis derived from Ex. XV, 2: He is my God and I will glorify Him. In pursuit of that ideal, a pious Jew would build his tabernacle in most careful and beautiful form, would have his scroll written by excellent scribes, would have his prayer shawl adorned, or made from costly wool or silk. To shew his scroll to the people would be an exhibition of his natural pride in that precious possession.');">¹¹</span>

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