In his book, Jewish Law as Rebellion, Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo enlightens us regarding his approach to the “flaws” of Torah and the opportunities with those flaws provide us as individual Jews and us as a Jewish community.

My belief that the Torah is purposely morally flawed is closely related to the idea of halachic loophole,” which Chazal (our Talmudic Sages) and later poskim (decisors of Jewish Law) frequently used to solve halachic problems. (289)

Judaism wants to make the sages and the Jewish community constantly aware that they live in the presence of God, and to accomplish that goal life must be complicated and an ongoing challenge! Only through constant preoccupation with the divine commandments and their minutiae, and only by confronting the obstacles to implementing these commandments, can one be cognizant of God’s presence (319).

Challenges provide us with opportunities to see God in our everyday lives.  That is a very different lens through which we can understand and see the commandments.