A perpetual fire, the Torah says, shall not go out. But perpetual doesn't mean self-sustaining. Someone has to show up and lay the wood.

Leviticus calls the grain offering a "soul." Rashi says it's what a poor person brings. God counts it as everything.

Two years ago I visited Israel as a tourist. This week I landed ten days after my conversion. Same sign at Ben Gurion. Different person reading it.