Musar for Yoma 141:4

מתקיף לה רבי זירא ודילמא מפסיק ליה בשעיר הנעשה בחוץ

i.e., on his first coming forth he is to offer his burnt-offering, and that of the people.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XVI, 24 states that he offers up the two rams, his own and the people's, as soon as he has left the Holy of Holies. Whereas, if he were to have fetched the ladle and the coal-pan first, he would have offered them after his second coming forth from the Holy of Holies.');">5 Raba said: Scripture said, And shall put off the linen garments [etc.].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XVI, 23. Raba does not endeavour to answer the question propounded by R. Zera, he endeavours to explain the Baraitha, which would emend the Scriptural account by having the order of the service interrupted as above.');">6

Mesilat Yesharim

The elevation was to such an extent that its kind, all over the world, was blessed, as our sages stated in a Midrash. So too, the food and drink which the holy man eats elevates that food or drink as if it had actually been offered on the altar. This is similar to what our sages, of blessed memory, said: "one who brings a gift to a Torah scholar is as if he had offered first-fruits (Bikurim)" (Ketuvot 105b), and "[if a man wishes to offer a wine libation upon the altar], let him fill the throat of the Torah scholars with wine" (Yomah 71a).

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