{"id":98746,"date":"2022-11-20T03:31:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98746"},"modified":"2022-11-20T03:31:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:31:27","slug":"the-courage-to-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/the-courage-to-question\/","title":{"rendered":"The Courage to Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Courage to Question<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A yeshiva student came to ask me a question regarding a nuance of a mitzvah. As we were talking, he discovered that without realizing, he had been transgressing a serious prohibition. Of course, I explained the matter to him. I taught him how to correct his misdeeds, and told him how to behave correctly in the future.<\/p>\n<p>This matter taught me how crucial it is to ask advice of a Torah teacher. In the merit of approaching me to ask the Torah\u2019s opinion in a specific matter, he merited touching on a completely different topic, which demanded correction.<\/p>\n<p><em>If he had not had the gumption to ask about the original difficulty, he may not ever have corrected this sin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courage to Question A yeshiva student came to ask me a question regarding a nuance of a mitzvah. As we were talking, he discovered that without realizing, he had been transgressing a serious prohibition. Of course, I explained the matter to him. I taught him how to correct his misdeeds, and told him how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mitzvot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}