Tzaddikim & poskim when approached with a question in Halacha, will most likely do 2 things. Either they will make you comfortable & tell you, come lets learn it together or they will tell you to wait a moment. BUT this is only done either as a sign of humility & to stay away from the evil act of pride or to make you feel warm. Example. A posek with a line of 100 people with questions would love to tell each one yes/no you can/not do this on shabbos etc… & you can look it up in Shulchan Aruch Siman– Sif–. He would love to finish answering everyone so he can go back to his own learning. He is only looking it up to keep his humility.
A friend of mine many years ago told me this below after many years of doing the work he’s still doing today.
Being that i am a photographer for newspapers & many others, i once took pictures of a kollel learning with Chavrusas & rabbonim. A week later a person from the kollel comes over to me & asked me why he didn’t make it into the newspaper, i then told him the difference between putting him in the newspaper & putting a rav or Rosh yeshiva in the newspaper. The difference is that when a rosh yeshiva reads the newspaper (& there’s nothing wrong with reading the newspaper a person should know what’s going on in the world or his town etc…)& then sees himself in the newspaper 80 times in 3 newspapers in-only-2 weeks, he doesn’t say to himself or to his wife look how great i am. That ego of pride does not even exist to him. & if you think it only applies to rabbonim your mistaken. Rabbonim are the honor of Ruchnius, Politicians are the honor of Gashmius. If a person could prove to Hashem that all this pride, honor & respect will not effect his relationship with Hashem, then he is ready to become a politician & be Backed up for success by Hashem himself.
After hearing the above message from my friend a few years ago I couldn’t agree more with what he said and how right he is.
May we all work on our humility and drop that pride and ego inside of us that destroys a person and remember that everything we have and do all comes from Hashems help to bring us to where we are today so all the credit of our accomplishments actually goes directly to Hashem who gave us the Hatzlacha in everything.