Daily Dose of Geulah: Mitzvos Will Be Nullified?

mimivan

Fri, Feb 13 2009, 8:04 am

Thus, regarding the matter of “mitzvos will be nullified in the Future to Come,” it appears that this contradicts the eternal nature of the Torah I.e. something that is clear and explicit in the Torah that it is a mitzvah that stands forever and ever, that we are commanded to fufill all the words of the Torah forever and ever ?
The explanation is that the interpretation of “mitzvos will be nullified in the Future to Come” only related 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 the mitzvos in and of themselves is eternal, “a mitzvah stands forever and eve – not as a command on a person per se, but as the will of G-d Alm-ighty.”

-the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, Kuntres on the Laws of the Oral Torah that will never be nullified)
translated by Michoel Leib Dobry