One of the most striking aspects of our services today is the emphasis on the actions of the High Priest in Temple. Our Torah reading recounts how, after the death of Aaron’s two sons, God instructed Moses to tell Aaron how to observe the very first Yom Kippur – and that we should observe it from thence forward as a day of atonement. Then, in the middle of the Musaf Amidah, we recount in greater detail the ceremony as it was observed in the Temple. Why do we need to repeat th