The Gemara says that we don't ask a Gabay Tzedaka what he did with the money he collected and also don't ask the Gizbarim about Hekdish. The Gemara also says that even if there isn't proof to this, we have a remez from a posuk... and Tosfos says that the reason that the Posuk isn't proof is because there it's talking about Tzadikim Gemurim.
If so, why are we "Choshed Beksherim" when it comes to the Kohen Godol, where by the Kohen Godol they ask him questions and then cry because they were Choshed Beksheyrim. The Kohen Godol on Erev Yom Kiper!! Do we have a Tzadik Gumur more then him?? What is the difference?
Thank You.
Zvi, Quiryat Gat, Israel
The Gemara relates that there were Kohanim Gedolim who were Tzedukim, and it was for this reason that the Elders made him swear to perform the Avodah properly before Yom Kippur. In the second Bais ha'Mikdash many Kohanim Gedolim paid their way into the position and were less than Tzadikim Gemurim.
The Shevu'ah was administered to all Kohanim Gedolim (even Shimon ha'Tzaddik) because it was instituted to make it part of the Seder of the Avodah of Yom ha'Kipurim. It was not administered to him because his actions were suspect. The Elders cried since the Shevu'ah implies that they are Choshed the Kohen Gadol.
D. Zupnik
It could also be that we are more suspicious when the atonement for the entire nation is at stake than when we simply have a question of a monetary issue at hand. After all, there is at least a minimal reason to suspect even a Tzakid Gamur -- Yochanan Kohen Gadol, according to some, became a Tzeduki after eighty years in Kehunah Gedolah (Berachos 29a)
M. Kornfeld