The possuk in Shir Hashirim (7:2) מַה יָּפוּ פְעָמַיִךְ בַּנְּעָלִים בַּת נָדִיב. The Gemarah (Chagigah 3b) has a derash מה יפו פעמותיהן של ישראל בשעה שעולים לרגל. Rav Shwab asks that the halacha is that one is not allowed to wear shoes onto Har Habais (Berachot 54a) so why would there be a praise of Klal Yisrael wearing shoes on the way to be עולה לרגל? (I am not bothered by the question ,the point is that you wear shoes for the journey from one's house to Har Habais.) Rav Shwab suggests the derash is for leaving the state of olah laregel. when one left after the yom tov, one was filled with such kedusha that it was carried with a person home.
Just as the Rambam (Avodas Yom Kippurim end of Ch. 4) says ויוצא לביתו וכל העם מלוין אותו עד ביתו ויום טוב היה עושה על שיצא בשלום מן הקדש. There is a celebration of the Kohan Gadol for exiting the kodash kadoshim, for finishing the avodah of the day. The piut מראה כהן described the great beauty of the Kohan as he exited the Kodash Kadoshim. So too, Chazal are praising the exit from the aliah liregel, the grandeur of all the spiritual gains which permeate through the body of a Jew as he brings the gains from the Yom Tov into his ordinary life.
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