Jewish Life Digital Edition March 2015 | Page 45

1 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