Please Hashem: No more Questions!

Son: why is the sky blue?

Dad: How should I know?

Son: Why does the sun shine at night and the moon during the day?

Dad: I have no idea.

Son: What is the secret of creation?

Dad: Could you stop bugging me already?

Son: Dad, do you want me to continue asking questions?

Dad: Why, of course. How else will you gain knowledge?

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Dear Rabbi,

I’m sure you heard about the terror attack that took away from us 3 of our brothers and sisters. Just a few months ago eight Yeshivah students were murdered in cold blood. And I ask: How is this possible?

And second of all: How is someone supposed to move on and concentrate on their own lives when they are too busy trying to figure out this answer?

Confused

Dear Confused,

The question of why things happen to good people is as old as pain itself, and although asked many a time, going way back when to Moses’ cry “why do you make bad to your nation?” to the modern “Why six million!”, it remains unanswered until this very day.
And that is the way it should be.

Think about it: Do I really want to know the answer to pain? Do I want to know the reason of the holocaust? And if I get the reason will I then be in peace with pain?

The answer is a resounding ‘No!’ We don’t want and we don’t need an answer to the question. What we need is an end to the questions.

You asked, ‘how is this possible?’, and I ask ‘Dear G-d: Why are there so many questions? Are six million questions not enough? Are 5768 years of sacrifice and pain not enough to take away the questions? Enough questions!

You ask ‘how’ to move on? And the answer is, not to search for answers, but by doing all we can to remove the question. We should not try to “justify” G-d, No! We don’t want explanations; we want an end to pain. We are not searching for answers; we are demanding an end to the questions!

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P.S. This coming Sunday will be 14 years since Gimmel Tammuz 1994.14 years that the world has not heard the voice of the leader of this generation, the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

Dear G-d: 14 years of this painful question is more than enough. Please give us such an answer that will remove the question all together, with the revelation of the Rebbe who will lead us out of exile, to a time when we will know of questions no more.

May questions be wiped off the face of the earth speedily in our day