Ask Behar Bechukosai 86 # 5898 - The Healing Day - Q. Kvodo, is it proper to visit the burial place af my grandfather who was a great Tzadik on Lag Baomer, the day of his Yohrzait, to pray for much needed help for our family?
A. There is dispute regarding the propriety of visiting kevarim at certain times, such as Rosh Chodesh, Chanukah and Erev Purim, Lag B'omer, the days in Nissan which precede Passover, and other days on which tachanun is not recited. Therefore, on these days one should avoid the visitation of a cemetery.
However, we recommended in a similar question, the following:
“Q. 4981: Dear Rov Shlit”a. My father shlit’a needs an open hearth surgery and he was given the opportunity to do it on Lag Baomer. Should he do it on that day?
A. Indeed, Sefarim do mention that Lag Baomer is a day that advocates and promotes Refuos and healing.
The Tzemach Tzedek mentions that the blessing of “Melech Rofeh Neeman Verachaman” (The truthful and compassionate healing King), has the first letters (in Hebrew) of Meron, the city that is most well-known for the burial site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
Every year, on Lag BaOmer, the anniversary of his passing, hundreds of thousands converge in Meron for a joyous celebration of Rabbi Shimon’s great and most wondrous life.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that if there is no added discomfort or irritation on doing it then, it is correct and worthwhile to seek the Segula and propitious blessing of this very special day.
May he have a prompt Refuah Shleimah.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.”
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