Journey to Italy 5784 - The Correct Way & Objective of Visiting Kivrei Tzadikim

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com hope everybody had a enjoyable picnic enjoyable lunch uh the question was raised what is the objective of visiting sikim what should one think about what should one have in mind what does one gain from visiting sikim who are in the so firstly there's a major discussion in whether it is permitted to address the sadic directly the conclusion of the Misha is it is not permitted to make any requests of a sadic when one goes to a k one should not Place their focus on the one of the 13 principles of faith is that one can only pray to and not DAV to any human being and that is the conclusion of the M says that if somebody addresses their to thead now you're in Jeopardy of possibly violating being making a request of the Dead that being said there is a tradition among the there's a CH theah that perhaps one can ask the sadic to intercede on their behalf if you know that that is the custom of your family based on the community that you live in and you have authorized this with a competent Authority then if you're not sure then you have to follow the the is you cannot make any requests of thead you can't ask the sadic to intercede on on your behalf so what should you be thinking I kavan in uh at home in the five towns there a lot of very beautiful shs of course myall is the destination of choice because there's no talking there we don't have cell phones in the basa so that is probably the best place for you to dve in but there are other shs in Brooklyn that you could go to or or around the country or ar so what's the advantage of going to kikim so there's a beautiful ran the ran is found in the J tan thean basically says in contemporary verbiage that a Kev is a Wi-Fi zone what does that mean there are certain spots on Earth where you have stronger connection certain spots where you have weaker connection so for example if you have Verizon it's not compatible with Cedarhurst New York right people come to my house all of a sudden they lose service why for some reason my block has terrible Wi-Fi service see right you're Mas him what if you drivea you live yeah right here we have an Aon that he lives a few blocks down and when he passes by my house he loses service it's true people don't know it's because I have turned off any Wi-Fi in the vicinity of my Shore so that there's no point in bringing the phone in anyway right but you heard it here first okay so uh the an says like this we know that when spoke so reprimands Miram the only thing is Hashem doesn't just suddenly appear to any na'vi a navi typically has to be prepar for the Divine experience not so M MH was on call 247 so how is Hashem going to speak to Miriam on the spot so hasem tells Mir says stand next to and if you're in the proximity ofu I speak to him immediately you'll get the same Wi-Fi service if you're Inu excuse the terminology becomes a hot spot for NAA as long as you're in the proximity ofu Hashem can now speak to Miram and to Arin says thean if this is so when the sadic is alive so the sadik in his lifetime is a vehicle is a medium of the influence from shamayim of r of Prophecy of divine Spirit then even after their demise even after they pass away their physical personal person their bones continue to be a vehicle and a medium of divine connection and therefore if you're standing in their proximity it is a a place that is predisposed to have your answered so that is the ideal kavana to have daving at a Kev of a sadic that this individual had a unique connection to and I am able to in this tap in a little bit to that uh connection that the tadic had be of what's very interesting is that uh the king in saer when he sees that his Steward neya is morose and depressed the king says why do you look so despondent you should be happy you have the opportunity to serve me so says uh how can I not be despondent but says how can I not be despondent how can I not be depressed when the city where my forefathers are buried is lay in Ruins so what's talking about which forefathers were buried in Yim that he was despondent that the City was destroyed apparently all the great sikim that are buried in a city specifically they Infuse kadus into the city Yim has kadus not only because it's the shash shim and it's the place on Earth where all shefa comes down the fact that so many hundreds and thousands of sadim are buried in it lends kadus to the city of Y so it's the same thing with Italy you may never have thought of this idea but the fact that there are hundreds if not thousands of sadikin buried in Italy gives the country a certain it's to have your answered now here's something really interesting records in the that he heard from the AR however says the the M that everybody knows about there's a long waiting list in other words you're going to dve in there and you're going to pray and you're not address the sadic but the sadic May facilitate the ascent of your yeah but there are a thousand people who came here yesterday and a th people are coming tomorrow and I mean how much could a sadic do for each and every person you know he's he's an uh he's overbooked he's overworked it's very hard to accomplish a lot in a place where many people go says the AR the key is to find M that other people don't know about cuz this sadic he's been resting for a while he's looking for work he you know and he can't really travel so far you know people ask me um you know about going to as opposed to going to living sikim and of course it's always preferable but I happen to find that the sikim that are buried in the ground their schedules are much more flexible than the living sadik they they make themselves available um and it's just easier for them whenever you don't have to call in advance you don't have to make any appointments and it could be they haven't seen any visitors in in a long time that all right I'll read to you his words he says whose graves are hidden from people are not well known only to some people for example the ones that are recorded in so one thing I could tell you for sure we're going to go tomorrow to Leo Island okay I've made many attempts to get to those Kar first of all nobody knows where they are on Leo Island one time we went to the cemetery and the guy the guard didn't want to open it up because he had to eat hot dogs and he didn't have time to open it up for us it's I can you could probably count on one or two hands the amount of people that davened at the farm we're going to go to tomorrow cuz even you'll you go to the cemetery they're not the Karm are not really marked nobody knows where they are so you know the sadik they've been waiting for you they they want visitors and know where they are how do I know where they are those are the trade secrets that I can't give out to maybe at the end of the trip I'll tell you the secret ingredient in Coca-Cola but how I know where thear are N I can't give that away now I just want to mention one thing raich the great M he wrote a sa on visiting called and he writes that every C has a very specific atmosphere every sadik has a unique personality some sikim excelled in Li in in in GE in gar rash others were M and every Mak that you go to you have an opportunity to learn from adapt the particular and of that and it's a way of saying now he's talking about the in the north and it's a way of saying I travel two hours to go to this sadic because I want to learn about this sadic and I want to adopt his practices and I want to emulate his ways and it's a very strong message to Hashem that our should be Nel so here it didn't take us 2 hours first we had to travel 2 hours till we got to JFK then we had to wait 2 hours until they checked what's in our shoes and our handbags then we had to go wait on the runway and we flew here and then we're driving so we say look at the lens we go to be able to learn about the history of these sikim the of sikim the of the sikim and we want to emulate the rightous ways of these great people and in that Merit all of our you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com