0365 - The Rebbe Agreed to the Question However With Deeper Intention

00:00 Someone told me many years ago that he wrote to the Rebbe a shaila. I think it was something to give the Halacha Lemaise, but he didn't tell me what it was about. But he wrote to the Rebbe a shaila. And the Rebbe answered him whatever he answered. But he had a very strong kasha, a very simple kasha on what the Rebbe said. So he wrote to the Rebbe asking that shaila. And the Rebbe answered him, "You're right. Your kasha is a good kasha." And it seems like the Rebbe changed whatever he wrote. So he tells me he couldn't understand. It was such a simple question that he had on what the Rebbe wrote, the Rebbe couldn't think of it. So he wrote to the Rebbe saying that I don't understand. The Rebbe didn't think of this question that I had. So the Rebbe answered him a long letter, BeKsav Yad Kodesh, a whole page. And the tochan of the thing was that the kasha that you asked, I could answer very simple. That's not the kasha. But on that answer that I have, there's another kasha. And the Rebbe went into a long shakla v'tarya back and forth with different... The whole pilpul b'nigay that inyan. And the bottom line after the whole thing, the original kasha comes back. So he was telling him, even though I answered you that your kasha is a good kasha and I accept it, it's not the same way you think. Just the bottom line turns out the same

01:13 kasha. But not you took the kasha simply and that I have an answer, but then there's all kinds of biurim and things that continue. And after all the continues and all the great depth, the bottom line is that your kasha comes back. So it looks like the Rebbe just agreed to his kasha the way it is, but there's much more depth to it. This gives a little understanding in the way the Gemara was written. We know the Gemara that Ravina Bar Rav Ashi wrote is a sak hako of all the discussions of all the Tannaim, the Amoraim that took place many hundreds of years. But the Gemara is very small. And sometimes we have in the Gemara that someone says something and then the Gemara asks the kasha. And the question, we always think such a simple kasha. He couldn't think of it. I mean, what does that mean? And the answer is that even though it seems like the kasha the Gemara asks is the same kasha that we have, but there is so much depth to it that beem is the kasha could be answered. Elemai, there's more to it. The bottom line is that the kasha comes back. And that's what Ravina Bar Rav Ashi wrote, the bottom line. And the meforshim, that's what they do. They go backwards. They go when they ask kashas on the hava amina and then they explain it and this and some sof kosov they come back to explain what the Gemara says. So it looks

02:23 like this was a simple kasha, but really after all the meforshim, you see that there's so much depth to it. So this Gemara is just a sak hako of the discussions of thousands and tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of tamida hakhamim, of tannaim, of amoraim. And it turns out to be just a small Gemara that we have. But it's all because the bottom line is the way we see it, but we have to understand how they got to it. And it's not so simple as we think because there's much more depth to it.