How do you view Tradition when it seems to violate scripture?
My problem is this: I've been reading about the birth of Mary to Joachim and Anna, and how in due course, they take her to the temple when she was three. " She Herself ascended the high steps and, by revelation from God, She was led into the very Holy of Holies, by the High Priest "
(Kontakion of the Entry into the Temple)
"She spent so much time in prayer in the Holy of Holies that one might say that She lived in it."
(Service to the Entry, second sticheron on "Lord, I have cried,"and the "Glory, Both Now...")
The problem is that according to scripture, this couldn't have happened. The High Priest went into the Holy of Holies only once a year, on the day of atonement. He went in alone, after an extensive ritual. There wasn't any possibility of anyone else entering with him. Also, given the Jewish culture at the time, the idea that a women could enter the Holy of Holies would have been beyond imagining.
"To the high priest alone it was permitted to enter the holy of holies, which he did only once a year, on the great Day of Atonement, for "the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest" (Heb. 9; 10). Wearing his gorgeous priestly vestments, he entered the temple before all the people, and then, laying them aside and assuming only his linen garments in secret, he entered the Holy of Holies alone, and made expiation, sprinkling the blood of the sin offering on the mercy seat, and offering up incense. Then resuming his splendid robes, he reappeared before the people (Lev. 16). Thus the wearing of these robes came to be identified with the Day of Atonement."
)And there is no competition between "Tradition vs Scripture."