[Avodah] Kivrey Avos

[Zev Sero]

On 21/06/2012 2:39 AM, Daniel M. Israel wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Zev Sero wrote:
>> And of course the whole concept is not relevant when one is directly
>> addressing the niftar, asking him or her to intercede for us.
>
> Assuming one holds that this is permitted in the first place.

The Zohar explicitly endorses it, and says "vedoresh el hameisim"
means resha'im.  (Just as the Gemara says that "vehameisim einam yod'im
me'uma" means resha'im.)

-- 
Zev Sero        "Natural resources are not finite in any meaningful
zev at sero.name    economic sense, mind-boggling though this assertion
                  may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
		 are expanding through human ingenuity."
		                            - Julian Simon