“Before setting foot in the Holiest of Holies, you must take off your shoes, but not only your shoes but everything, traveling clothes and luggage, and under that, your nakedness and every-thing that is under the nakedness and every-thing that hides beneath that, and then the core and the core of the core, then the remainder and then the residue and then even the gleam of the imperishable fire. Only the fire itself is absorbed by the Holiest of Holies and lets itself be absorbed by it; neither can resist the other.”

• F. Kafka