Daily Dose of Geulah: Mitzvos in the Geulah

mimivan

Sun, Mar 14 2010, 9:10 am

In reply to a suggestion to establish a fast to hasten the Redemption, and to the question as to whether it would be appropriate, the Rebbe shlita said:
“The Chabad approach is not to cause sorrow to Jew with fasts and the like (except when the situation mandates it and there is absolutely no alternative),
totally unlike this situation. I will mention it at the Tzion.”
(Beis Chayeinu #85)

Thus, regarding the matter of “mitzvos will be nullified in the Future to Come,” it appears that this contradicts the eternal nature of Torah, I.e., “something that is a
clear and explicit in the Torah that it is a mitzva that stands forever and ever, that we are commanded to fulfill all the words of the Torah forever”?

The explanation is that the interpretation of “mitzvos will be nullified in the Future to Come” only relates to the command (“mitzvos” specifically defined as a
command to a person), and “when a person dies (after completing his service in the fulfillment of mitzvos),[the person] is made free of mitzvos.”This means that even in the World of Resurrection (after the completion of our work and our service in the fulfillment of mitzvos during the time of “Today, to do them”), he will have no command to fulfill the mitzvos, but the existence of mitzvos in and of themselves is eternal, “a mitzva stands forever and ever” – not as a command to the person per se, but as the will of G-d Alm-ghty.
(Kuntres on Laws on the Oral Torah That Will
Never be Nullified)

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn
Selected by Rabbi Pinchas Maman
Translated by Michoel Lieb Dobry

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