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The disappearance of the commandments

שו”תCategory: faithThe disappearance of the commandments
asked 12 months ago

It seems that as time goes by, more and more of the Torah’s commandments are losing their usefulness altogether. Everything related to the Temple and the priesthood has been irrelevant for years, and apparently no one really wants to return to a situation where those who rule the people are a caste of priests funded by donations. Many women’s policies and almost every legal doctrine are almost irrelevant today in any way, and will never be relevant again. Seed issues are already being implemented mainly through all sorts of tricks, and it seems possible that in the future they will disappear as traditional agriculture diminishes. The laws of kashrut may disappear with cultured meat, and of course, cultured milk and cultured vegetables could equally well be possible, or perhaps even synthetic food. Doesn’t the disappearance of the commandments indicate that the Torah is not truly eternal and that its relevance to something depends very much on time, norms, and specific technologies? Does it make sense to you that God gave a Torah that is losing its relevance?


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מיכי Staff answered 12 months ago
The accusation that the priests control the people is of course baseless. You can also say that you don’t miss it without being slanderous. Regarding foreign affairs, some of it is relevant and some can also return in principle. In general, indeed, many of the laws will probably disappear and become irrelevant. So what? The eternity of the Torah is not related to its actual implementation. The eternity is of the commitment, not of the implementation. Maimonides emphasized this in the mitzvah of killing Amalek and the seven nations, where he addresses the question of why he listed these mitzvot even though they are not relevant and brings this distinction. Perhaps this is the meaning of the Sages’ statement that mitzvot are null and void for the future (even if that is not what they intended, in any case they seem not to be moved by such a situation).

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