Menachem; 'In the time to come, all sacrifices will be annulled, but that of thanksgiving will not be annulled' This is indicated by what is written [Jer. 33;11].
The Lord will loose the bonds. What does the verse man by
the words 'Loose the bonds'? Some say that of every animal
whose flesh it is forbidden to eat in this world, the Holy
One, blessed be He, will declare in the time to come that
eating of its flesh is permitted. [Eccles. 1:9 is quoted as
the proof text.]
The thought of Torah changing in the "Age to Come," is again made perfectly clear in the
rendering of Deut. 17:18, in Sifra. Here it is stated that the L*rd wrote a copy of the Mishna-Torah
for Himself, and that He would not be content with the Mishna-Torah of the fathers. The question
is asked:
A second school of thought regarding the mutability of the Torah presents us with the concept of
an entirely "New Torah" being revealed in the "Age to Come." This thought is distinguishable from
the previous understanding in that: [1] the first school of thought, although considering Torah to
be mutable, confines these changes to the context of the Torah that was revealed to Moses at
Sinai; [2] the second group states that the changes will go far beyond the mere "reinterpretation"
of the Torah revealed at Sinai. They suggest that the very substance of Torah will be changed,
and that in the "Age to Come," the Law of Torah will be of a different fabric than that of the
present age. Proponents of this position use the Targumic rendering of the text found in Isa. 12:3.
The Masoretic text reads:
Behold God is my salvation, I will trust and will not be
afraid, for the Lord my God is my strength and my song. He
also has become my salvation....With joy you will draw water
out of the wells of salvation.
The Targum reads:
Behold, in the Memra of the Lord of my salvation do I trust,
and shall not be dismayed; because my strength and my glory
is the Terrible One, the Lord: He has spoken by His Memra
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