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questions that get asked, providing explanations and reasons for everything, with
the depth of the questions and answers being dependent on the person(s) asking and
answering.10
So, why did our Sages insist that the
Pesach Seder be a series of questions and
answers? Because the only way to arrive
at the truth of a matter is to investigate
it via a proper inquiry (ie, through asking questions and seeking answers) because only one who questions will actually succeed in finding an answer!11 Moreover, it is only by means of the questions
being asked by his children that a father
can determine if the children have understood and accepted the answers that
the father gives them – as questions reveal what is in a person’s heart (as we see
clearly via the questions asked by The
Four Sons later on in the Haggadah).12
And we can appreciate how questioning
reveals such a thing by thinking about
any presentation that we have attended
where people were given an opportunity
to ask questions following the presentation: some people ask questions and
clearly want