Alef: The Art of Asking

There are three questions on my mind with which we will frame this journey and begin pondering the art of questioning and why it is such a big deal in Jewish life.

If you are familiar with Jewish life, you know about the four questions.

You might know about many other big moments throughout the Jewish life.

world and vocabulary where questions are important.

There are three that we will explore tonight.

One is about the human's first pondering existence.

The second is about questioning what happens when life is not pretty and when it gets hard.

And the third is about time, and how do we activate our sense of agency with connection to both sacred space and sacred time.

Adrian Rich, the wonderful poet, wrote once that questions are the way we breathe life into texts, relationships, and our own souls.

So ayeka, eicha, and me'emotai, Where are you? Where are you? And when is it time to begin are the questions we're gonna be exploring tonight.

Let me start with the first one.