[Avodah] Le'ilui Nishmas an Infant

[Akiva Miller]

.
R' Danny Schoemann asked:

> Now I decide it's le'ilui nishmas a certain Opa who's Yahrzeit
> it is. Why & how would he get more credit than anybody else?
> Maybe because I'm learning specifically because it's his
> Yahrzeit? But that's not an "action" he did.
>
> Forget about learning a Mishna for a random childless niftar.
> How on earth does that work? or: how in heaven does that work? ;-)

I understand these situations to be similar to when one asks a tzadik to
daven for him. The tzadik is pained to some non-zero degree about the
petitioner's problem, and he asks Hashem to fix the situation. If Hashem
does so, it's not because of any zechus of the petitioner, but rather it is
to do a favor for the tzadik.

So too here. The learning is not a result of anything that Opa did. But the
learner is pained that Opa is gone, and he asks Hashem to redirect the
s'char of the learning into Opa's account. Or even if the learner has zero
pain about Opa being gone, he can still redirect the s'char the same way.

Akiva Miller
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.aishdas.org/pipermail/avodah-aishdas.org/attachments/20201222/57cee488/attachment-0001.htm>