<div dir="ltr"><div>R' Zev Sero wrote:</div><div>"Have you never heard of a neshama having an aliyah especially on a yortzeit?"</div><div><br></div>That refers to actions done by a living person to help the neshama of the dead person not the dead person helping himself. In any case see the following 2 posts from R' Slifkin where he discusses this very point, whether anything you can do can actually affect the dead persons neshama. He points out that this is a very new idea.<div>
<br><div><a href="http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/2014/02/another-revolution-in-judaism.html">http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/2014/02/another-revolution-in-judaism.html</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/2014/02/what-can-one-do-for-someone-who-has.html">http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/2014/02/what-can-one-do-for-someone-who-has.html</a><br>
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