<div dir="ltr">I have brought up in the past the chassidic custom with regard to eating in the succah on shemini atzeret (outside EY) where some declare it a minhag shtus while large groups of religious people follow the custom.<div><br></div><div>I am now preparing a shiur on another such. The question is whether a cohen can go to the grave of a tzaddik, i.e. does the grave of a tzaddik have tumah. Over the ages there have been many cases of cohanim visitng the grave of tzaddikim while others condemn the minhag. Without exhausting the subject the Avnei Nezer has a chiddush that that if the Tzaddik dies naturally the grave is me-tameh while if he was called then the grave is not me-tameh. R Usher Weiss says that its a nice drasha but not halacha.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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