TBT,
Rabbie Yishmoel ben Elisha, the last Kohen Gadol, was in the middle of doing the Avodas Yom Hakkipurim, in the Kodesh HaKodoshim: The holiest man, on the holiest day, in the holiest place. His whole bracha was tefilla that the churban shouldn’t take place and Hashem should have rachmonus on Klal Yisroel. It wasn’t that, “You should be zoche to …”