Is free will absolute, or is it limited? Perhaps people do not possess free will for every single decision that they make, but only for certain decisions. Regarding many matters, people's decisions may be dictated by external circumstances.
If so, perhaps just as living humans are "coerced" by external circumstances to do certain things, the deceased may also be "coerced" to do certain things by external circumstances. And perhaps one of those external circumstances is the assemblage of Jews at the graveyard. Perhaps such an assemblage causes the deceased to pray on our behalf without the intervention of free will at all.
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