Needing another's validation. Why does the youngest child ask the questions? What children mean when they say - I want this! The chacham's (sage's) question to the child. Children live in the truth of their existence at that moment. The child's struggle between their and others' desires. The 4 questions as a conversation with Hashem. The root of our personal exile. Eitz Hada'as (the Tree of Knowledge) is desiring something other than who I am. Life inside the mother's womb.