Avram: “Since this tremendous mitzva was done for the sake of the deceased, the merits are also added to the merits of the deceased.”
Wow–thank you for this amazing response Avram–I am sure it will increase the quality of my davening and I am ever grateful for this.
As a follow-up: What benefit accrues to the deceased by gaining more merit?
Also, do folks in your shul say Kaddish for precisely 11 months?