Not eating before going to the gravesite of a tzaddik

Letter No. 589:

From correspondence of the Lubavitcher Rebbe; translated by Eli Touger

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[2 Iyar, 5710]

I heard from my revered father-in-law, the Rebbe, הכ"מ, that it is customary that one should not eat before going to a gravesite [of a tzaddik], but that one should drink.1

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Footnotes

See Zohar III, p. 71a; the later commentaries to Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, the conclusion of sec. 581; Likkutei Tzvi; Yalkut Avraham, by R. Avraham Lipshitz to Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, sec. 581; Elef HaMagein to Orach Chayim, sec. 581.