[Avodah] Kivrey Avos

[Zev Sero]

On 24/06/2012 8:39 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On 21/06/2012 3:42 PM, T613K at aol.com wrote:
>> [1] What  about the idea that those who have passed away come back and
>> go to the  simchas of their relatives and descendants?  They must know
>> about  the weddings at least!  Or do you have to explicitly invite them
>> if  you want them to come?
>
> From: Zev Sero<zev at sero.name>
> : The  common minhag is to go to the graves and invite them....
>
> But that invitation is also happening in olam hazeh. The problem of
> whether meisim following the goings on down here isn't changed by
> this minhag.

The machlokes in the gemara whether "meisim yod'im" refers only to what
is happening outside the cemetery.  Lechol hade'os they know what is
happening inside.


-- 
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