[Avodah] Who is a Talmid Chacham

[Zev Sero]

On 6/07/2012 11:15 AM, Doron Beckerman wrote:
> No, he isn't. He was very far from it. Along with Gideon and Shimshon,
> he is described as a Kal Olam who was appointed as a Parnas on the Tzibbur.
> The Derashah of V'el Hashofet is not going on Yiftach Bedoro. Please see
> the Gemara there.

True, the gemara doesn't directly relate them, but wasn't Yiftach
the Shofeit for six years?  And doesn't that mean, by definition,
that he was the "shofet asher yihyeh bayamim hahem", with the power
of "lo tasur"?  Isn't the point there that you have to obey his BD's
psak, even though he was an am ha'aretz?

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