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People did it in the past, it's gonna be okay once the young generation is taught them fom early age.

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The Avos, Moishe Rabbeinu and David Hamelech all practiced as shepereds in order to learn the skills of leading a flock - but even more importantly, the solitude and natural settings allowed them to commune with Hashem and His creation, free from sitractions, enabling them to build ther superlative characters.

In such an environment they embodied the lessons of the mezuzuah, 100% Shivisi Hashem lenagdi tamid, and then carried them over into 'real life'

When the laws of Taharah come back into effect, iy"H, the world will be very different - no war, easy parnassa, no internal yetzer hara, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual healing from the generational traumas of 2000 year long galus - in that world, I expect the halachos will be far less 'frightening'.

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That's possible. But it's also possible that, like anything worth having, it'll take a lot of hard work to absorb and integrate the Torah's values into our thought processes - especially values that are as complex and demanding as those of taharos.

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My understanding of yemos Hamashiach is it will be far easier to do so than today. See יחזקאל ל״ו:כו and חבקוק ב׳:יד

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Also, Rambam follows the opinion of שמואל that אין בין עולם הזה לעולם הבא אלא שעבוד מלכיות בלבד - which suggests that, among other things, our yetzer hara will remain more or less intact.

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That's a good point. Although I think it may depend on what the sequence of the גאולה will be - which we don't exactly know. It's theoretically possible, after all, for the mikdash to be rebuilt before any great historical (and metaphysical) changes happen.

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