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March 13, 2012 1:11 am at 1:11 am
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longarekel
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Logician: Very good point. I always wondered why chassidim are so into celebrating yahrtzeits. The fact that they were tzaddikim doesn’t help since Moshe and Aharon (and Yehoshua and others) were certainly tzadikim and the Shulchan Aruch recommends fasting on their yahrtzeits(Orach Chaim 580).