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Finding Relevance
Question
I am having difficulty finding relevance in some sections of the Torah. It is difficult for me to see how instructions for offerings at the Temple (which is long gone) that were to be carried out by the Cohanim are relevant to me today. It is difficult for me to properly study these sections since I keep thinking, "This has nothing to do with me".
Obviously this is not the proper attitude to take towards the study of any portion of the Torah. I am having difficulty overcoming it. Do you have any advice?
Answer
The laws regarding the worship at the Temple will be applied daily once, with G-d's help, the Temple is rebuilt. Even before then, important principles of both halacha and Jewish thought are derived from them.
Read the commentaries on these verse and search for those explanations that have meaning for you.

Cloning a Parah Adumah
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Tammuz 5, 5768

Purpose of the Olat Ha-Tamid
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | Sivan 2, 5768

Shir leviim
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | 8 Nisan 5767

removing sins in Judaism
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Shevat 22, 5782

Rabbi Jonathan Blass
Rabbi of Neve Tzuf and Rosh Kollel "Ratzon Yehuda".

Minhag Hamakom
16 Tishrei 5763

Yizkor for a Ger
23 Tishrei 5763

Tzitzit for women
23 Tishrei 5763

Zimun Alone II
23 Tishrei 5763

Naming a baby girl Romi
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Nisan 18, 5774

Bracha on water
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | Cheshvan 16, 5769
Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tevet 26, 5770

Mezzuzah for Non Jew
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 18, 5773

Talmud
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Shevat 4, 5783

Does God Have Feelings?
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tevet 24, 5783
