Fire: Holy and Unholy - Rabbi Sacks on Shemini, Covenant & Conversation
The Office of Rabbi Sacks
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The Fire of God, the Source of Life
When we confuse god's will with our will, we urn the holy into something unholy and a source of death. Like nuclear ficion, worship generates power which can be benign, but it can also be profoundly dangerous. Religion isn't what the european enlightenment thought. It would become mute, marginal and mild. And like fire, it warms, but it also burns. And we must be the guardians of the flame.
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