Parshas Behaaloscha - LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION
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Join us as we discuss the importance of not being afraid to ask questions, drawing on the wisdom of the Mishna and the great sages who encourage persistence in our pursuit of knowledge. Discover the art of question-asking and how half of the answer may already exist inside the question itself. Embrace the value of curiosity and let your questions guide your journey to understanding and enlightenment.
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0:01 Did this ever happen to you? That you're having a conversation with someone and you ask them a question and they respond to you with a question. They say, well, can I ask you this? And you're like I just asked you a question. But it seems like common practice, at least in my community, perhaps by all Jews, that we answer questions with questions. Jewish people, it's no secret We learn by the question, we educate with a question. It's all about the question. There's no greater time in a base of medrish than when a study hall is buzzing with a cashew, with a question from the great Rabbi, akiva Eger, and everyone clamoring to answer the Gilianashash's question.
0:46 Who can think of an answer? But it's all about the question. Why? What's so special about the question? Well, partius Balos tells us that questions in fact create mitzvos. Yes, there was a group of people, anushim group people, individuals that were tummy, that were impure, and they missed out on the paschal lamb and the sacrifice because they were involved in something else. They were impure, they were doing good things, but they missed out. And now they storm Moses' office and they said Lama n'igara, le vilty hikriv korbanashem bemo'yado, something like that. But they definitely said Lama n'igara.
1:27 Why should we be left out. They've voiced their questions, their opinions. They said why is it fair, doesn't make any sense. We were doing something good and we lost out because of it. Pesach shayni, a whole new holiday. What's more? questions acquire real estate, the b'no slufchad. These daughters had no dad, so they said, excuse me, moses, this doesn't really make much sense. Can we get a portion of the land? They got a chiam, they got a portion, they got some real estate in the Eretzakaydesh. Everything's about the question and at a time that it may feel like there's some spiritual atrophy and the subtle art of question asking may be withering away, we should remember that everything lives in the question.
2:22 Really, b'chatzi terrets, half of the answer is already living inside of the question. The great ones tell us We must ask and ask and ask. The Mishnabhikovis tells us that ayin habayshun loymid, that if you're embarrassed, that if you're soft, if you're afraid to speak up, then you cannot learn. It would be impossible to become a tamarchochom. And you don't understand something, you raise your hand. You say rabbi, i don't get it. Explain to me, because kihaym chayaynu in loma, nigora. I want to know. Tell me the answer, never stop question.