Daily Talk
Fire came down from heaven onto the altar, and the Torah still commands the priests to bring their own. Why does God ask for human fire He does not need? And why is building your own altar the one act of devotion the Torah refuses to accept?
One Place, Every Day: The Altar You May Not Build and the Fire You Must Keep
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About This Talk
Maaseh HaKorbanot closes with the laws of offering outside the Temple, and Temidin uMusafin opens with the daily offering and the fire that must never go out. Together they teach that holiness does not live wherever we happen to feel it. It lives in one place, twice a day, in a fire that heaven began and human hands must keep.