CONNECTING TO A TZADDIK AFTER HIS DEATH [#17682]

December 24, 2021

QUESTION:

1)Is there a way to see a tzaddik after his death, either while awake or in a dream? (In a case where one already spoke with the tzaddik in his lifetime and the tzaddik had told him “We will speak again the next time”, but there never was a next time, because the tzaddik was niftar after our last conversation. I want to know if there is a way for me to continue to communicate with the tzaddik).

ANSWER:

Yes.
QUESTION
2) What is the way to bond with or to gain a connection with a tzaddik after he is niftar?
ANSWER
Either by learning his divrei Torah or by connecting to parts of the tzaddik’s soul, such as by connecting to the tzaddik’s middos or to the actions that he did on this world.
QUESTION
3) If I print a sefer as a zechus for the tzaddik, does he know about it in Heaven? Do I need to inform him? And if I need to inform him about it, what is the way to let him know?
ANSWER
Usually, yes [he knows about it], especially if people are learning his sefer.
QUESTION
4) If we learn the divrei Torah of a tzaddik, does the tzaddik know that people are learning his divrei Torah right now?
ANSWER
If his divrei Torah is being learned properly. All of the above depends on the different soul roots that there are, and also on how close the tzaddik feels to the world, and also on how many years it has been since the tzaddik has left the world.
QUESTION
5) If I go to the grave of a tzaddik on his yahrtzeit and I speak with him there, does the tzaddik hear me?
ANSWER
Not always. On Rosh Chodesh and on the 15th of the month, yes.
QUESTION
6) Am I able to talk to the tzaddik at his grave even when it’s not his yahrtzeit? And if yes, does the tzaddik hear me?
ANSWER
Give tzedakah to elevate his soul, which will inform the tzaddik that so-and-so is coming to daven by his grave. But care must be taken that the one asking the tzaddik for a request should be purified, because the tzaddik may be upset that he has been disturbed for nothing.
QUESTION
7) What if I can’t go the grave of a tzaddik, like if he is buried in Eretz Yisrael and I live in chutz l’aretz? Can I send a friend there and call his phone and speak to the tzaddik by his grave, by having my friend hold the phone as I talk? Does the tzaddik hear me if I do this? Or do I need to actually be by the tzaddik’s grave?
ANSWER
Not necessarily.
QUESTION
8) I have heard that if people get together to speak about the tzaddik and they share his divrei Torah, the soul of the tzaddik comes there. Is this only on the yahrtzeir or is it any day that people gather together to eulogize him or say stories about him? And does the tzaddik come to such gatherings, even if it is under 10 people?
ANSWER
He comes at all times [when people discuss his divrei Torah]. When people learn the divrei Torah of the tzaddik, that is gives light to the tzaddik’s neshamah.
QUESTION
9) What if a person speaks alone with the tzaddik or he says the divrei Torah of the tzaddik, does the tzaddik come to him then or does the tzaddik at least him hear him, when he speaks to the tzaddik or says the divrei Torah of the tzaddik?
ANSWER
If one was connected to the tzaddik in the depths of his soul or he learned the tzaddik’s words in a state of purity, or if he was heavily involved in what the tzaddik himself was involved with.