Reply To: Can anyone explain going to Uman?

Yytz – I suspected what you said – that Rav Nachman WANTED husbands to come with their wives when visiting him. I was setting the conversation up for my next kasha:

A classic step in learning is the principle of “smallest machlokes”. Whereby, if you have two opinions who argue about a specific point you assume the point of argument that causes the disagreement is as small as possible and that both opinions agree on everything except the point of conflict. Thus, if you know what Rabbi A holds legabey x and y, and you what Rabbi B holds only legabey y; you should assume that they both agree on x, and you may use this assumption as a tool in uncovering what the root for the machlokes on y is, and for clarifying each opinion.

That being said, you quoted reliable sources that display R’ Nachman’s daas Torah was for husband and wife to come together when they visit him in life. He did not predict the impracticality of wives coming after his death, and therefore did not discuss it. As was mentioned on the thread earlier, there are great poskim whose daas Torah is that husbands should NOT separate from wives for Rosh Hashana to go to kivrei tzadikim. In context of the previous paragraph, what halachic right do we have to assume that Rav Nachman would have argued with the Daas Torah of these poskim, when we don’t know explicitly that he did?