[Avodah] Rachel Immeinu and Gaza: Doreish Issues

[Harvey Benton]

I could not access some of the links in the posting by Yitzhak Grossman, but there is a short (3 minute) audio Teshuva by R. Zev Leff (link below).  Basically R. Leff makes distinctions between doreish of a nefesh or body of a niftar, vs. doreish of a neshama or ruach.  He says that according to most poskim, contacting neshamas of meisim is ok; he brings a maiseh of the Arizal, and then says that according to some, to even entreat the neshamas of tzadikim buried at a kever, is ok. There are problems of davening to anyone but Hashem, and he brings down mekoros (no exact citations) on both sides of the issue.
KT, HB   
 
Question R. Leff responds to:
The Lubavitcher Rebbe wrote the following: "You ask, isn't it now no longer possible to ask the [Previous] Rebbe, my father-in-law, of blessed memory, when one is in doubt which course of behavior is correct? [This is not so, for] if you stand firm in your Hiskashrus [bond] with him, and pay no attention to the lures of the evil inclination, and you send the request to the gravesite of the [Previous] Rebbe, my father-in-law, of blessed memory, the [Previous] Rebbe will find a way to answer you." [Igros Kodesh, Vol. 3, page 266] Isn't this a problem of Doresh el Hamaisim? —Yoni, New York, NY
 
Audio link: (question 1576), [category Halacha (General Jewish Law)]
http://www.rabbileff.net/shiurim/ask/index.htm
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