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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">The following is from the column Halachic Corner With Rav Hershel Schachter that appeared on page 23 of the 8/10/18 issue of the Jewish Press</p>
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<div>We consider kiverei tzaddikim holy locations, so we pray to Hakadosh Baruch - not to the tzaddikim -that in the zechus of these tzaddikim He should be kind to us.</div>
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The Gemara says you're not allowed to daven within daled amos of a kever because it's lo'eg larash [mocking the deceased] since the meis is not able to daven. So you<br>
have to move away. Many people pray right next to the grave in the middle of<br>
the whole cemetery. That, the Gemara says, is not proper. You should daven<br>
from a distance.</div>
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<div>Supposing one goes to Meron: If one is so inclined,is one allowed to ask a berachah directly from Rav Shimon bar Yochai?</div>
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No, he's not alive. How can he give a berachah? You ask Hakadosh Baruch Hu that He should answer our prayers b'zechus the tanna who's buried here ....</div>
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<div>We assume a makom menuchas ha'tzaddikim is a holier site, so it's like davening near a holy place. But you daven to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. The Torah has a prohibition<br>
not to be doreish al hameisim. You're not allowed to pray to the dead.</div>
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<div>Rav Hershel Schachter is a widely-respected posek and rash yeshiva and rash kollel at Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary</div>
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<div>Am I mistaken or don't some of the suggestions and advice in the video at the URL below contradict what Rav Schacter has written? Ask for a Bernbach? Ask for advice?
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