[Avodah] To Whom Should One Pray At A Tzaddik's Kever?

[Zev Sero]

On 14/08/18 09:59, Danny Schoemann via Avodah wrote:
> 1. What is your source for this? Talking to dead people ("asking the
> neshamah of a tzadiq", no?) seems to be Doresh El Hameisim - one of the
> 365 possible aveiros.

The Zohar explicitly dismisses this concern, saying that "meisim" here 
means resha`im, who are dead even when they're alive, and not tzadikim, 
who are alive even when they're dead. It then relates this to Koheles's 
"Meisim shekevar meisu", i.e. the tzadikim who are "dead" only in the 
superficial sense that they happen to have died, versus the "chayim 
asher heima chayim `odena", i.e. the resha`im who are "alive" only in 
the sense that they happen not yet to have died.

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