Reply To: Pesach questions

RebE, yes (hard for me, I would rather disagree :).
They contradicted each other at their first encounter in the river, so maybe that’s where they felt they are compatible. The new question I am seeing from this discussion – R Y clearly explained what he needs, and they could not find anyone in his generation to save him … My Teacher made similar conclusion about students in college, graduates of Jewish schools, 20+ years ago.

With some people, you see this quality for discussion quickly, like R Y ands Resh L did. First time I met R Steinsaltz Z’L he asked me a funny, somewhat linguistically witty and denigrating, question about my name (not AAQ). I was able to recover, albeit not that witty. Next time, I somehow blurped an innocent phrase that had a literary connotation making an extremely offensive comparison of him with a non-kosher creature . I have no idea how I said it, but he understood the connotation before I did and laughed wholeheartedly without taking an offense, and then consoled me in my rudeness. I wished he was not so well read in secular literature …