<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">RMB: Second issue, if someone didn't inspire others to do the mitzvah in</span></font><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">> question, how can that mitzvah be added to their cheshbon. And I don't
> mean that they in effect inspired, I mean chose to inspire. After all,
> what's the sekhar in just happening to be a cause, no different than a
> falling rock could be a cause?...How do we satisfy straightforward notions
> of Dayan haEmes with these things?</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I suggested:</pre></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">ZL (Avodah V38 #112): It seems that the concept </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">for one's ] is that Hashem gave people the power to gift each<br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">other, or to assign a sharing of the merits they gain to whomever they<br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">please. Just as it is in olam </span>hezeh<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">. What is the justice that I should gain<br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">wealth by my shver gifting me, just because I married his daughter?</span><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre"><br></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Not that I have a mekor for any of this. Maybe we can relate it to the<br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">concept of a kinyan to B through the han'a'a that A get's from B' accepting<br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">the item from him. (The niftar's neshamah is surely choosing to grant the<br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">learner the hana'a of accepting the learner's gift to it. In exchange of<br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">that hana'a to the learner, that neshama gains the merit of the learning.)</span></font></blockquote><div> </div><div>But RMB dismissed that with: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="monospace"><br>RMB:<br>>> Yes. But we're talking about how the RBSO could be Just. I would prefer</font><br><span style="font-family:monospace">>> getting to a point of "I really don't know" than embracing theories<br></span><span style="font-family:monospace">>> that don't seem fair. It's theology. "I don't know" is a perfectly fine<br></span><span style="font-family:monospace">>> answer; we shouldn't insist we /can/ understand it all and settle for<br></span><font face="monospace">>> compromises....</font></blockquote><div> </div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="monospace">And I agreed, but called attention to how this relates to the original issue:</font></div><div><font face="monospace"><br>ZL > True. But it is only a dilemma deserving an ''I don't know' response if you<br>> accept the premises that the practice of saying kaddish in such a situation<br>> is valid, somehow ...<br><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="monospace">RMB: Which situations?</font></blockquote></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace">ZL: I meant situations such as an infant's petira, and the application to it of the le'i'ui nishmas concept.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace">Or situations such as when ''[others doing a mitzvah ''on someone's behalf''] when that someone ''</font><font face="monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">didn't inspire the others to do the mitzvah in </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="monospace">question,'' where the question arises over the fairness of how that mitzvah can be added to their cheshbon.</font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">So I wrote that this is only a dilemma if such practices, particularly with such a kavana, were attributable to minhag Yisrael/bnei neviim heim.</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">RMB replied:<br></span></font><font face="monospace"><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="monospace">RMB: Qaddish for someone who you don't owe in that sort of way doesn't actually</font></blockquote><font face="monospace">have a long tradition. I wouldn't assume it qualifies as minhag Yisrael.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace">Me: I'm not informed about the minhag status of Kaddish for an infant, or </font><span style="font-family:monospace">learning something like mishnayos </span><span style="font-family:monospace">for a stranger. Nor of the history of doing these things with the intent of 'e'ilui nafsham. </span><span style="font-family:monospace">If such practice, and certainly if the attribution of ilui nefesh powers to the practice does not qualify as a minhag, </span><span style="font-family:monospace">then that would tend to weaken the need for an explanation of ''I don't know'' for why we are making such an attribution.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:monospace"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="monospace">RMB concluded: But I think that regardless of whether a person can get zekhus for a<br></font><font face="monospace">mitzvah done, rather than for their role in causing that mitzvah to be<br></font><font face="monospace">done, if the emotions of the moment can cause someone to say Qaddish<br></font><font face="monospace">with kavvanah, why not say it?</font></blockquote></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace">Fine, L'maa'aseh of reciting the Kaddish. But the original issue was the theological one of how to defend applying the concept of le'ilui nishmas in such situations. </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace">Zvi Lampel<br><br>- <a href="https://amzn.to/2JRxnDF" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2JRxnDF</a> - Rabindranath Tagore<br></font><br></div></div></div></div></div>