Following a rebbe and not challenging.
There are different types of following
1) pshat in Torah, one is encouraged to ask questions and not accept pshat if he doesn’t understand or argues but one needs to realize that (by a real rebbe and talmid) his rebbe knows much more than him (if not find a new rebbe). So i.e. if my rebbe – who is baki is shas and rishonim – says a pshat in gemarah, if I don’t understand it I shouldn’t make fun of his pshat just because In my limited knowledge it doesn’t Make sences, i should ask the rebbe my questions and he will explain to me – that’s the way of learning (and in lubavitch the rebbe encouraged people to ask questions on the sichos – they were printed in הערות וביאורים, and the rebbe would discuss the questions the next farbrengen. And many of the footnotes in likutai sichos come from questions the chassidim asked and the rebbe answered.)
2) following advice in physical matters, there is a letter in Tanya about this, and different mesorahs about it.
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