[Avodah] R' Aviner on gadol hador status

[T613K at aol.com]

> Looking back now, for example, I think everybody would agree that  the 
> ... Vilna Gaon was "the" godol hador of his  dor...[--TK]

Maybe. Maybe not. I think that even today, some might give  that title to
the Baal Shem Tov. [--R' Joel Rich]


 


>>>>>
They were not exactly the same dor.  The Ba'al Shem Tov died in 1760,  the 
Vilna Gaon in 1797.  A person doesn't become a godol hador until he is  at least 
in his fifties and more often not until he's 70, so the Vilna Gaon (who  was 
40 when the Baal Shem Tov died) would not yet have been the godol hador when  
the Besht was still alive.  Thus, each could well have been "the" godol  hador 
of his dor.





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