<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">In Avodah Digest V23#126, Micha responded
to RMK:</font>
<br><tt><font size=2>> : Are there sources that say that the soul</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2> : of the niftar is being comforted?<br>
: I'd be interested to see them.<br>
> I do not recall. It was an idea that I picked up</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>on a previous iteration on Avodah. Perhaps</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>the person who posted it could be<br>
troubled to repeat his sources. <</font></tt>
<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">Without getting into whether
Micha was thinking of this article, he recently was kind enough to send
me the URL for the Mesukim miDevash article I wrote on the subject of "HaMakom
yenacheim," </font><font size=2 color=#800000 face="Verdana">http://www.aishdas.org/mesukim/5764/vayechi.pdf</font><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">.
Those interested in a possible answer to RMK's question are directed
to all (esp. the sentences beginning with "One" and "Moreover")
of the "Eschem" stanza on p.4 and, in particular, to footnotes
16 and 18. RaMBaM's Hilchos Aveil 14 is available online at </font><font size=2 color=#800000 face="Verdana">http://www.mechon-mamre.org/i/e414.htm</font><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">,
and the words I'm drawing an inference from ("nichum aveilim g'milus
chessed im hachayyim v'im hameisim") are in the halachah which quotes
from the pasuq in Koheles. Thanks.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Verdana">A guten Shabbes/Shabbas Shalom
and all the best from</font>
<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Monotype Corsiva">Michael Poppers</font><font size=4 color=blue face="Verdana">
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</font><font size=4 color=blue face="EngraversGothic BT">Elizabeth, NJ,
USA</font>