[Avodah] Vegetarianism [was "the cohen gadol...]

[Doron Beckerman]

RnTK writes that someone who finds meat distasteful need not alter his
tastes. Rav Kook zt"l wrote another multi-part article in Hapeles in 1902
about vegetarianism - that nowadays the allowance to eat meat is a necessary
"evil", because otherwise people who would have an urge to consume meat
would kill animals - and people would not differentiate between man and
animals in regard to killing them. In this morally inferior climate, where
one may ex post facto eat meat, one should certainly channel this allowance
and desire toward Korbanos. But in the future there will be no Korbanos
except grain - based on Vayikra Rabbah, when the world is at its morally
refined peak.

So I don't think it is at all necessary to alter one's anti-carnivorous
tastes if this is really what the Torah considers ideal, according to Rav
Kook. It would also actually make sense that as redemption grows nearer such
feelings would become more widespread, based on the thesis in *The Moon's
Lost Light* by Devora Heshelis.

On the issue of the Kohen Gadol and a Naarah itself - is it so that nowadays
the girl's Besulim is not the same at age 17 as at 12 1/2 - and if it is,
perhaps there will be an acceptance that Nishtanu HaTevaim will allow the KG
to marry an older girl (assuming that the rationale and Derasha is the
derivative source for the Halachah). It is also not so farfetched that the
Kohen Gadol who would be selected nowadays would be a dashing young Kohen -
there were some KGs who served 80 years, so they were probably not elderly
when they began their careers.
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