clarification, they raise objections, they seek to take their teacher’s comments to the next level. Were my students only to parrot what I said, without developing their own views, then I would have failed as a teacher. Our job, as listeners, is to study the Sermon, ask our own questions, and then, in community, seek our own answers. In churches, the congregation ideally listens to the sermon, but in few congregations is there a “talk back,” let alone a challenge. In my synagogue, on a rare occasion,