[Avodah] R Elyashiv

[Poppers, Michael]

In Avodah V29n24, R'Micha responded to RET:
>> Is there any mitzvah to be closer to the sick person. Does praying in the corridor have any more effect than praying in kikar shabbat? <<
> Maybe the setting is more emotionally motivational -- a strong kavanah aid. Isn't that the Litvisher approach to understanding the value of davening at a qever? <
I can't speak to the Litvishe (or to the Brisker) approach, but I thought approaches to understanding davening at a qever (only the second of which seems pertinent to davening in a hospital corridor [as opposed to being m'vaqeir hacholeh]) included
-- that n'shamos may be present and then could return to the olam han'shamos and intercede w/ the Ribono shel Olam (viz. the story of the farmer who was b'veis haq'varos on one RhSh ba'al karcho and, because of the weather forecast he overheard the previous year, there on the next RhSh deliberately; or, leaving myths aside, consider Rachel Imeinu m'vakeh al banehah...);
-- to display k'vod hameis; and
-- that the place was a maqom qadosh because of the revelation in this world of midas hadin. 

All the best from 
-- Michael Poppers via BB pager