Parashat
Beaalotcha (When you kindle the
lamps)
My
daughter Catalina likes to ask questions. She sometimes gets surprised
and upset when I answer: " I don't know."
How
is that possible, she asks; you are a rabbi...
My
answer is: You know what? Even Moses, the greatest rabbi, didn't know everything
and he asked G-d several times.
This
parasha deals with the first of ten times Moses asked G-d for an answer.
A
group of people were impure and could not eat the Passover sacrifice. Moses
didn't know what to do with them. He consulted G-d, and Pesach sheni (a
"second Passover") was instituted.
Sometimes
the greatest wisdom is not knowing everything. More important is to know when
to say "I do not know" and recognizing the source of all knowledge.
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