The most exciting thing I’ve learned recently is that I’ll be able to enter the Kodesh hakodoshim as long as I’m at that spiritual level, any day, when moshiach comes.
I have always found claims like this to be very theologically troubling. Another example is the claim that when Moshiach comes the Yomim Tovim will be disestablished.
My understanding is that the mitzvos are for all generations, including those after the arrival of Moshiach. Indeed, it is one of our ikkarim that the Torah will not be changed.
I’m well aware that the origins of this belief (at least with regard to the Yomim Tovim) come from among our earliest rabbinic writing (the Midrash) and are spoken about by the Rishonim and Acharonim. And yet, I still have *serious* reservations about such lines of thought. We believe in the eternity of our Torah. There is nothing there that states that any of the mitzvos are due to be completely annulled at any future date.
(I know, I know… I’m an apikorus for even having such doubts…)
The Wolf