Torah-Inspired, Days of Awe Reflection of The Day…
Today we look at Tzav, Leviticus 6:1 – 8:36 – lots more about offerings and the practices of the priesthood.
Also, these verses requiring the priests to maintain a fire:
Lev. 6:5 Now the fire on the slaughter-site is to be kept-blazing upon it – it must not go out! – and the priest is to stoke on it (pieces-of-)wood, in the morning, (every) morning, and he is to arrange on it the offering-up, and is to turn into smoke on it the fat-parts of the shalom-offering.
6 A regular fire is to be kept-blazing upon the slaughter-site-it is not to go out!
Why maintain a regular flame in the center of the community?
We are a healthy community when we devote resources to the maintenance of things we may need at any time, even if we don’t all need it right now.
Keeping a warm place in the center of our communities, a place of welcome and sustenance, requires constant attention. We must appoint someone to do this and give them the resources to make sure that the fire doesn’t go out.
