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You might expect a house for the Infinite to go anywhere. The Rambam insists on the opposite: the altar in one unchangeable place where Adam, Noah, and Abraham all built, the menorah in one exact form beaten from a single block of gold, and the Ark on the one stone the world was created from.
The Stone the World Was Built On
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Three chapters of exactness reveal that holiness is not diffuse but rooted: one unchangeable altar-place, one undivided menorah, and the Ark on the foundation stone of the world. The boundless makes itself reachable by choosing, precisely, to be somewhere.