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מחלוקת באחרונים

@@bennyu.4327 אין שום מחלוקת. כולם מסכימים שאסור להתפלל אל המתים, ומי שעושה ככה, יש להעיר לו על זה. אך מותר לכל הדיעות לפנות אל הצדיק שימליץ טוב עליו לפני כסא הכבוד, וכבר מובא בהרבה מקומות בחז"ל על פניות כאלה, כגון שמובא בסוטה (ל"ד:) כי כלב בן יפונה השתטח על קברי האבות במערת המכפלה ואמר להם: "אבותי, בקשו עלי רחמים שאנצל מעצת מרגלים", וכן כתוב בילקוט שמעוני (איכה רמז תתקצו) כי בשעת החורבן השתטח ירמיהו על קברי האבות וביקש מהם: דובבו בקול תחנונים פני שוכן מעונים

I wrote a synopsis above.

דעי בלעכענע פנים

See the synopsis I wrote above.

I'm too busy to do that, but I'll give a brief synopsis of the story they relate. It is a story of 3 people, all of whom saw their personal prayer answered immediately after praying to the late saintly rabbi, with the answer to all 3 prayers combined in a single story. The first character (the seated elderly man), a Brooklyn builder, had long-running trouble from a German inspector who sought to destroy his business by looking for and manufacturing violations. When he finally had enough, he turned in prayer to the rabbi to free him from this "Haman," and the next morning was informed of the inspector's sudden fatal heart attack. To show his thanks and appreciation, he decided to write a Torah Scroll in the rabbi's memory, and in seeking to make it top-of-the-line, was referred to a certain Israeli scribe. Upon visiting him in Israel and telling him that it was to be written in the rabbi's memory, the scribe nearly flipped, telling him that he had just returned from Kerestir to pray for a sufficient livelihood, as he had no customers, and he received the call to write the Torah (which provides a comfortable full year's salary) just 3 days later. When a Torah is completed, it is placed in a synagogue along with a joyous musical celebration. The musical group that was hired to perform, was led by someone who had just broken away from a famous orchestra and started his own band, and this was his first offer, which came right after he returned from Kerestir, asking the late rabbi to help him in his new venture.