[Avodah] Characterizing our era (was: Re: shabbas//mishum eiva, etc???)

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

RMoshe Y. Gluck wrote
>I like drawing the line at R' Chaim Volozhiner, and calling everything
afterward the era of the Roshei Yeshivos.<

R' EMT:
     In pre-WWII Europe, the g'dolei Torah, with few exceptions, were the
rabbonim, not the roshei yeshiva.  R. Chaim Soloveitchik was not a rosh
yeshiva; he was Brisker Rov, as were his father and son.  R. Chaim Ozer did
not have a yeshiva; he was Vilner Rov.  R. Moshe Feinstein was a rov in a
shtetl. Even in the "new world," R. Yaakov Kamenetzky, e.g., became what he
was a a rov, and only later in life became a rosh yeshiva.  Many had
talmidim, but that was one of the functions of a rov, if he chose to assume
it.  Where there was a yeshiva, its head either was, or was subservient to,
the rav ha'ir.
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I don't contest any of this; I was thinking more of the way we interact with
them (the previous generations, too) now rather than how they interacted
with their own generation. 

And, BTW, a major flaw in my argument is the influence of the Chassidic
Rebbes.

KT,
MYG