Dear Avira,
I don’t understand how he aggrieved Rav Chiya.
Pardon my ignorance on communicating with the dead. What is the deciding factor if it is prayer or not? Why is it different than solicitating from the living?
My only point is that we find a straight petition to the interred. Don’t ask me what it means. I was only challenging your blanket statement.
If I had to chose if it is forbidden or desirable to betten the rebbe, I would choose the former. But it’s not a choice for me, because I have no interest in doing so. If your asking me to definitively prove, I can’t. Too many kabalistic implications for me. Though I admit of the two ongoing arguments on this thread, yours are superior.