tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post2538611038293321821..comments2023-09-11T17:58:13.764-04:00Comments on The Rebbetzin's Husband: Leaving Israel to visit the graves of righteous peopleThe Rebbetzin's Husbandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-37308364335977881682013-07-08T11:15:22.721-04:002013-07-08T11:15:22.721-04:00See, that's the thing. You see only the hardsh...See, that's the thing. You see only the hardship and misery that was there, not the outpouring of Torah and avodah and chassidishkeit and mesiras nefesh. (R. Nachman himself indeed wanted to be buried in Uman because there are buried there some 30,000 Jews who were killed al kiddush Hashem by the Cossacks.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-77926530390561254262013-07-04T09:17:41.445-04:002013-07-04T09:17:41.445-04:00From Chief Rabbi Lau’s book, Light of the World (O...From Chief Rabbi Lau’s book, Light of the World (Oro shel Olam), page 380: <br /><br />A student in the Kol Torah Yeshiva in Jerusalem, approached his Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l and asked him the question: May I leave my Torah studies in the yeshiva to go [for a short visit] and pray at the graves of tzadikim (righteous people,) in the Galil (Northern Israel?)<br /><br />Rav Auerbach answered, “It is better to say in yeshiva, and study Torah”<br /><br />The student replied, “Isn’t there a time I could go to visit the graves of tzadikim? Doesn’t Rav Auerbach go and pray by the graves of tzadikim?<br /><br />Rav Auerbach answered, “In order to pray at the graves of tzadikim, one doesn’t have to travel up to the Galil. Whenever I feel the need to pray at the graves of tzadikim, I go to Mount Herzl, [the national cemetery for fallen IDF soliders in Jerusalem], to the graves of the soliders…who fell “Al Kiddush Hashem” for the sanctification of G-d.<br /><br /> http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2011/05/08/where-rav-shlomo-zalman-found-kivrei-tzadikim/#ixzz2Y5AdCiKI <br /><br />She-nir’eh et nehamat Yerushalayim u-binyanah bi-mherah ve-yamenu,<br />Joel RichAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-18771234919881299382013-07-04T08:41:54.303-04:002013-07-04T08:41:54.303-04:00One has to wonder about people for whom the grave ...One has to wonder about people for whom the grave of a Rebbe in a godforsaken corner of the Ukraine where Jews only knew hardship and misery is more spiritual than standing in Yerushalayim near the Har HaBayis. Yechezkel HaNavi has a scene in which he sees people in the Azarah bowing to the east, their backs to the Heichal. Is this so far off?<br />Most of the Rebbeim people leave Israel to visit spent their lives wishing they could be in Eretz Yisrael and now their followers leave Israel for their sake?Mighty Garnel Ironhearthttp://garnelironheart.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com