Prayer at the tombs of the righteous

MbY has been called one of the "top five biblical exegetes alive today" because of his focus on solid exegesis of the Torah in interpreting other parts of the Bible and specifically the story of the Return of the House of Joseph. He was also trained in Hebrew, Aramaic and some Greek biblical exegesis first in seminary  but also as a student of Rav Schneider, who MbY calls "the spiritual father of all Joes, because he (Rav Schneider) has spent the time in the trenches praying for the Joes and their Return."

"Rav Schneider and I davened the Tikkun Ha-Clali of Rebbe Nachman at tombs throughout Israel. Rav Schneider felt that we needed to secure the cooperation of the righteous dead (tzaddikim) who have one foot in the World to Come but another foot in this world. When we prayed to Hashem at their tombs, because we honored them, they prayed for our cause, which was to revive the Sanhedrin so ... for among other reasons ...  the authority from Jerusalem to Return the Joes could be manifest."