(Rabbi Freeman was asked to respond as briefly as possible to the question, “Is There Such a Thing as a Bad Question?”)
Many of us believe we will have an opportunity after our stint upon this earth to stand before a great mahogany desk in the sky and demand of G‑d, “If You are so kind and omniscient, why were You silent?” And then G‑d will show us the view as He sees things, and all will be answered.
Perhaps. Perhaps not. Perhaps at the end of all things, at the core of all wisdom, at the very essence of all being lies not an answer, but a question. Perhaps many questions. And who knows, perhaps this question is one of them.
Perhaps G‑d will simply counter our question with yet another and ask, “So what did you do to answer this question?”
And if we will say, “I did nothing, because I saw you did nothing,” then He will say, “So this that you asked, was it a question? Or was it just another answer?”
For that is the only bad question: the one that is not a question at all, but merely an inexpensive excuse to shrug our shoulders and scurry back to our holes, to do nothing.
There is no reason to doubt Time and again we have to face the same questions and time and again we are giving answers in manifold ways. My eye was caught by this phrase -"And then G‑d will show us the view as He sees things, and all will be answered". After a full stop there is a "perhaps" which cast doubt on this previous phrase. There is no reason to doubt, all that, will happen when the Moshiach comes, and the Messianic era will be started up. We have been advised -in many occasions- we should change the world, to be a home for G-d, by doing that we'll bring forth the coming of Moshiach.