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Sheh'ay'lah U'tshu'vah (Question & Answer)

from With All Your Heart by Jay Rapoport

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'Izzy, Did You Ask a Good Question Today?'
Published in The New York Times: January 19, 1988

Isidor I. Rabi, the Nobel laureate in physics who died Jan. 11, was once asked, ''Why did you become a scientist, rather than a doctor or lawyer or businessman, like the other immigrant kids in your neighborhood?''

His answer has served as an inspiration for me as an educator, as a credo for my son during his schooling and should be framed on the walls of all the pedagogues, power brokers and politicians who purport to run our society.

The question was posed to Dr. Rabi by his friend and mine, Arthur Sackler, himself a multitalented genius, who, sadly, also passed away recently. Dr. Rabi's answer, as reported by Dr. Sackler, was profound: ''My mother made me a scientist without ever intending it. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: 'So? Did you learn anything today?' But not my mother. She always asked me a different question. 'Izzy,' she would say, 'did you ask a good question today?' That difference - asking good questions -made me become a scientist!''

DONALD SHEFF New York, Jan. 12, 1988

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"SHEH'AY'LAH U'TSHU'VAH" (by Jay Rapoport)

When I was just a little kid
I’ll tell you what my mama did
When I got home after school she would say
Did you ask a good question today?

Sheh’ay’lah u’tshu’vah
It’s a question and a responsa
Sheh’ay’lah u’tshu’vah
If you wonder, it never hurts to ask

Throughout our history people wanted to know
About some things the Torah didn’t show
That’s when our rabbis came along to help us out
Their responsa gave us new things to talk about

All these answers bring us closer
Bring us closer to the truth
And all the questions bring me closer
They bring me closer to you

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from With All Your Heart, released November 2, 2010
Music and Lyrics by Jay Rapoport

Jay Rapoport: lead & backing vocals, Wurlitzer, piano
Glenn Grossman: drums, backing vocals
Louis Glaser: bass

Recorded by Jon Notar at Mercy Sound Recording Studio, NYC
Wurlitzer recorded by Jon Notar at La Sala Studio, NYC
Piano recorded by Glenn Grossman at Play Studios, NYC
Produced by Glenn Grossman
Mastered by Discmakers

Copyright Maxfun Music 2010

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Jay Rapoport Chicago, Illinois

Jay Rapoport, RJE takes Jewish values and texts and transforms them into “Ruach Rock”, a catchy piano-pounding style influenced by Ben Folds and Billy Joel. Jay has appeared on the Disney Holiday Singalong and received a Covenant Foundation grant to compose the theme song for the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland’s “La-bri’ut” curriculum. Jay is Director of URJ 6 Points Creative Arts Academy. ... more

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