[Avodah] Should we be davening for R' Elyashiv to live?

[Marty Bluke]

R' Benny Lau wrote (http://bit.ly/wl25Tr) that maybe we should be davening
for R' Elyashiv to be freed from the yisurim that are affecting his body
(in other words to die). He based this on the Gemara Kesubos 104 where
Rebbe's shifcha sees the talmidim davening for him to recover while he is
suffering and therefore she davens for him to die and distracts the
talmidim. He points out that R' Moshe (Igros Moshe Choshen Mishpat 2:73
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=921&st=&pgnum=301) paskens
like Rebbe's shifcha and R' moshe quotes a Ran in Nedarimn as well in
support of this. As expected this did not go over well with the crowd at
Kika Hashabbat.
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