{"id":52713,"date":"2019-03-31T22:16:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T19:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=52713"},"modified":"2019-03-31T22:16:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T19:16:55","slug":"tending-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/tending-the-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Tending The Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are more than 5800 verses in the Torah and almost every day I fall in love with a different one. Today, it\u2019s this one:<\/span><\/p>\n

Command Aaron and his sons thus: This is the ritual of the burnt offering: The burnt offering itself shall remain where it is burned upon the altar all night until morning, while the fire on the altar is kept going on it.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

This verse (Leviticus 6:2) opens the 6<\/span>th<\/span> chapter of Leviticus and the Torah portion of Tzav. Tzav means \u201ccommand\u201d. If we add one letter, we get tzevet \u2013 team, and one more \u2013 tzavta, togetherness. Whether a couple, family, organization or society, how to create a balance between order and togetherness is a constant challenge. Without it\u2013 we feel unsafe, confused and at odds with ourselves and each other.<\/span><\/p>\n

In some ways, the verse can take us back to Genesis: there is night, and then there is day. Bringing in the new day and its fire involves getting rid of the chaos which the previous day left. Before starting anew, the kohanim therefore, must first take out yesterday\u2019s ashes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, how I wish I knew how to do that too! That my morning\u2019s tradition included a daily routine to take out all the remainders of what has been smoldering within me restlessly from the past and let it go somewhere, in a \u201choly\u201d, set aside site, where this can decompose and become whatever is its next purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the fact that they put on special garments in order to do that! That taking out the trash is just as holy a task as any other job in the Temple.<\/span><\/p>\n

The cleanup involves discernment. The ashes \u2013 out; but not the fire (6:2):<\/span> And the fire on the altar will be kept going on it.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

And a couple of verses later, again (6:5): <\/span>And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning, it will be not be extinguished\u2026.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Maybe the Torah only spoke of the one and only Temple made of stone and wood, but perhaps the Torah also talks about the temple within each and everyone of us. Perhaps it asks us to remove what yesterday left behind which is no longer useful and nourishing but to make sure we do keep our own inner fire; that we tend to it with love, respect and care, and that we make sure, no matter what, to not let anyone, from within or without, to ever put it out. <\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Jews\/Verses\/Tanakh","main_caption":"Tending The Fire","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Leviticus 6:2 - \u201cCommand Aaron and his sons thus: 'This is the ritual of the burnt offering: The burnt offering itself shall remain where it is burned upon the altar all night until morning, while the fire on the altar is kept going on it.'\u201d","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52714,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713\/revisions\/52714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}