[Avodah] Rachel Immeinu and Gaza: Doreish Issues

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer]

There is a very significant detail missing from "Yoni"'s inquiry to
Rabbi Leff.  The Rebbe in that famously controversial sicha
distinguished between any meis, who would be a memutza ha'mafsik, to
which it would be forbidden to daven (i.e., make requests), and his FIL,
who was a memutza ha'mechaber, from which it would be permitted to make
requests. This was on account of a LR's status as a yechida kelalis. It
would be interesting for a knowledgeable Chasid to assess whether Rachel
Imenu might be regarded as a YK.

KT,
YGB

Harvey Benton wrote:
> 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
>
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