Related%20passage for Yoma 7:2

הָרוֹאֶה כֹהֵן גָּדוֹל כְּשֶׁהוּא קוֹרֵא, אֵינוֹ רוֹאֶה פַר וְשָׂעִיר הַנִּשְׂרָפִים. וְהָרוֹאֶה פַר וְשָׂעִיר הַנִּשְׂרָפִים, אֵינוֹ רוֹאֶה כֹהֵן גָּדוֹל כְּשֶׁהוּא קוֹרֵא. וְלֹא מִפְּנֵי שֶׁאֵינוֹ רַשַּׁאי, אֶלָּא שֶׁהָיְתָה דֶרֶךְ רְחוֹקָה, וּמְלֶאכֶת שְׁנֵיהֶן שָׁוָה כְאֶחָת:

One who sees the high-priest reading does not see the bullock and the goat being burned; and one who sees the bullock and the goat being burned does not see the high-priest reading. Not that he is not allowed to, but that the distance was great and both did not take place at the same time. [For we might have thought that a man observing one service was not permitted to leave off watching to go to see another, it being forbidden to "pass over" a mitzvah; and observing a service is a mitzvah, by reason of (Proverbs 14:28): "In the multitude of people is the King's glory." We are, therefore, apprised that this is not called "passing over" a mitzvah, for he is not occupied in its performance.]

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