[Avodah] paskening mashiach

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 01:36:55PM -0800, Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
: can the gdolim 'force ' the geula?

Tzadiq gozeir veE-lokim meqayeim. "Gozeir" is beis din terminology,
albeit not pesaq.

That said, do we have anyone of that stature so as to gozeir something
this big and expect Hashem to be meqayeim? And even if we do, I would
think that this kind of theurgy is not the way a Litvak would view
avodas Hashem. Which could very well be R' YS Elyashiv's point, rather
than denying that it's (even theoretically) doable.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha