QUESTION:
1) When a person goes to daven by the grave of a tzaddik and he tells the tzaddik to daven for him, is the tzaddik davening for him at that moment or does the tzaddik daven for him until he receives his salvation? And how much effort does the tzaddik do in order to save the person?
ANSWER:
There are no ironclad rules for this. Every case is different.
QUESTION
2) How can it be that a great tzaddik davens for a person yet the person isn’t saved? Especially if he has gone to several tzaddikim. And in addition, sometimes a person davens at the grave of a tzaddik for siyata d’shmaya for something, not necessarily for a big yeshuah but simply because he needs something, and nothing happens. How can this be?
ANSWER
Only Hashem can do anything!!! Even Moshe davened to get into Eretz Yisrael yet he wasn’t answered.
QUESTION
3) Why was Moshe Rabbeinu’s grave hidden so that the Jewish people wouldn’t be able to beseech him by his grave as they were being exiled from Jerusalem? They could still go to other tzaddikim’s graves and ask those tzaddikim to daven for them.
ANSWER
Because he is the most chosen person of Creation, until the coming of Mashiach.
QUESTION
4) Why did certain tzaddikim say that if people will come to daven by their graves that they will get saved? Does that exclude the graves of all other tzaddikim?
ANSWER
Every person must according to his cheilek (portion) and according to his shoresh (soul root). Every person had their own unique avodah.
QUESTION
5) Is there a concept of going back to the grave of a tzaddik and also holding back from going sometimes and then going back again later, so that it will be more meaningful?
ANSWER
Every 30 days.
QUESTION
6) Does the tzaddik recognize the person coming to his grave? Does he know what the name of the person is and what tikkun the person needs?
ANSWER
It depends on who the tzaddik is and what his relationship with the world was.
QUESTION
7) Is there a difference between going to the grave of a tzaddik when it’s full of people versus less people? Does it affect how much our tefillos there are answered?
ANSWER
If there is a tzibur (minyan, quorum of 10 men) it is more effective.
QUESTION
8) Is there a difference between asking that my tefillos should be answered in the zechus (merit) of the tzaddik or asking the tzaddik to daven on my behalf? Or is the tzaddik always davening on my behalf, regardless of what I say there?
ANSWER
If you say “In the zechus of the tzaddik” then it is not a given that the tzaddik is davening on one’s behalf.
QUESTION
9) Does a person need to go to a grave of a tzaddik specifically on Erev Rosh Chodesh or on the 15th of the month? What is special about those days?
ANSWER
If he is going to daven there, especially if he is going to ask the tzaddik to daven for him. During those days the tzaddik is more connected to his burial place.
QUESTION
10) And if a person went to several graves of tzaddikim and he wasn’t answered should he go to others for a yeshuah? Or should he keep going back to the graves of those tzaddikim?
ANSWER
Each person should do according to what his personal share is.
QUESTION
11) How does coming to the grave of a tzaddik help a person? Many people come to the grave of a tzaddik and say Tehillim and start davening, is that the ideal way to go about it?
ANSWER
It’s certainly better to learn there. The proper way is to first learn the Torah teachings of the tzaddik and become connected to them, and then to daven there.
QUESTION
12) What does lighting a candle by a tzaddik’s grave do? Does it have to lit at his grave or even if one lights it in his own house?
ANSWER
It is written Ner Hashem Nishmas Adam, “The flame of Hashem is the soul of man.” Through lighting a candle there, it awakens a revelation of the tzaddik’s neshamah. It is better to do so at the tzaddik’s grave. It is very worthwhile to do.
QUESTION
13) How much should a person make the effort to go to the kever of Rebbi Nachman?
ANSWER
He guaranteed what he guaranteed. As a general note, though, it is better for a person to work on having more of a direct connection with Hashem.
QUESTION
2) How can it be that a great tzaddik davens for a person yet the person isn’t saved? Especially if he has gone to several tzaddikim. And in addition, sometimes a person davens at the grave of a tzaddik for siyata d’shmaya for something, not necessarily for a big yeshuah but simply because he needs something, and nothing happens. How can this be?
ANSWER
Only Hashem can do anything!!! Even Moshe davened to get into Eretz Yisrael yet he wasn’t answered.
QUESTION
3) Why was Moshe Rabbeinu’s grave hidden so that the Jewish people wouldn’t be able to beseech him by his grave as they were being exiled from Jerusalem? They could still go to other tzaddikim’s graves and ask those tzaddikim to daven for them.
ANSWER
Because he is the most chosen person of Creation, until the coming of Mashiach.
QUESTION
4) Why did certain tzaddikim say that if people will come to daven by their graves that they will get saved? Does that exclude the graves of all other tzaddikim?
ANSWER
Every person must according to his cheilek (portion) and according to his shoresh (soul root). Every person had their own unique avodah.
QUESTION
5) Is there a concept of going back to the grave of a tzaddik and also holding back from going sometimes and then going back again later, so that it will be more meaningful?
ANSWER
Every 30 days.
QUESTION
6) Does the tzaddik recognize the person coming to his grave? Does he know what the name of the person is and what tikkun the person needs?
ANSWER
It depends on who the tzaddik is and what his relationship with the world was.
QUESTION
7) Is there a difference between going to the grave of a tzaddik when it’s full of people versus less people? Does it affect how much our tefillos there are answered?
ANSWER
If there is a tzibur (minyan, quorum of 10 men) it is more effective.
QUESTION
8) Is there a difference between asking that my tefillos should be answered in the zechus (merit) of the tzaddik or asking the tzaddik to daven on my behalf? Or is the tzaddik always davening on my behalf, regardless of what I say there?
ANSWER
If you say “In the zechus of the tzaddik” then it is not a given that the tzaddik is davening on one’s behalf.
QUESTION
9) Does a person need to go to a grave of a tzaddik specifically on Erev Rosh Chodesh or on the 15th of the month? What is special about those days?
ANSWER
If he is going to daven there, especially if he is going to ask the tzaddik to daven for him. During those days the tzaddik is more connected to his burial place.
QUESTION
10) And if a person went to several graves of tzaddikim and he wasn’t answered should he go to others for a yeshuah? Or should he keep going back to the graves of those tzaddikim?
ANSWER
Each person should do according to what his personal share is.
QUESTION
11) How does coming to the grave of a tzaddik help a person? Many people come to the grave of a tzaddik and say Tehillim and start davening, is that the ideal way to go about it?
ANSWER
It’s certainly better to learn there. The proper way is to first learn the Torah teachings of the tzaddik and become connected to them, and then to daven there.
QUESTION
12) What does lighting a candle by a tzaddik’s grave do? Does it have to lit at his grave or even if one lights it in his own house?
ANSWER
It is written Ner Hashem Nishmas Adam, “The flame of Hashem is the soul of man.” Through lighting a candle there, it awakens a revelation of the tzaddik’s neshamah. It is better to do so at the tzaddik’s grave. It is very worthwhile to do.
QUESTION
13) How much should a person make the effort to go to the kever of Rebbi Nachman?
ANSWER
He guaranteed what he guaranteed. As a general note, though, it is better for a person to work on having more of a direct connection with Hashem.
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