Typing from Roni Soleimani's house:
The Ben Ish Chai says a beautiful thing about this week's parasha, Parashat HaGadol, Parashat Acharei Mot: He explains that the clothing of the Kohanim in the Beit HaMikdash had a significance. In fact, we also learn from this tiny detail that everything in our world has a reason, especially a spiritual one, and that we all need to think and scrutinize everything we do/see. So there is a reason why the Kohen Gadol goes into the Kodesh Kadashim with white clothing and not gold comparing to the rest of the day of Yom Kippur, where he wears gold. According to the Yerushalmi Gemara, gold represents Ga'ava, haughtiness/arrogance. The only time when the Kohen Gadol does a job that is different than all the other Kohanim's jobs, is when he is in the Kodesh HaKodashim. During the jobs throughout the day there is no suspision that the Kohen Gadol will have any Ga'ava because he is like every other Kohen, however when he is going into the Kodesh Kodashim, he is the only one out of millions of Jews that has the privelage to do this mitzvah. Therefore we can assume that the Kohen Gadol might have a drop of Ga'ava.
However, you can also say that the Gematriya (numerical value) of Gold is 14 and the gematriya of Ga'ava is 15, therefore gold does not lead to someone being a Ga'avtan, an arrogant person. So how does it make sense that throughout the entire day's work, only when he goes into the Kodesh Kadashim then he changes to white clothes instead of gold? When the Kohen becomes a single being with the Gold, then he leads to Ga'ava, which is 1(kohen himself)+14(gold)=15(ga'ava).
B'H may we all have the zchut to run away from the Ga'ava, also the Orchot Tzadikkim speaks heavily about the Yehudi who has Ga'ava, in other words, Hashem Yerachem on the soul of a Yehudi that is Ga'avtan.
SHAVUA TOV.
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