[Avodah] Visiting the kevarim of parents/tzadikim

[Jacob Farkas]

> From: "A & C Walters" <>
> ...also many Chasidim, specifically Satmar do not to go kivrei tzadikim.
> (See Kuntrus Al
> HaGeula veal HaTmura) Siman 108 (page 166), that the whole inyan of 
> going to
> kivrei tzadikim was never a minhag in klal yisroel
>  >>

RSBA wrote:
> Despite what it says in AHVH, AFAIK, Satmar chassidim are very much
> into visiting kivrei tzaddikim.
> Just check out their newspapers - which advertise many such trips to Europe
> almost every week.

Absolutely true. Furthermore, on 26 Av, Satmarer (and other) Hassidim 
flock en masse to Reb Yoel Teitlebaum's Tzion in Kiryas Joel...

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R' Michael Kopinsky wrote:

> The Ran in Drashos #8 discusses the idea of davening at Kevarim.
> 
> (While this doesn't provide any answers about minhagim today, it does
> provide us with at least one Rishon (and a highly rationalist one, at
> that) in favor of (or accepting of) the practice of davening at kevarim.)

Rashi in Parshas Shelah mentions the Gemara that Calev went to Qivrei 
Avos in Hevron to pray.

--Jacob Farkas