<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">RMB, quoting Rachel Levmore:<br>
Alas, the last of the great Torah giants, those respected by Orthodox<br>
Jewry the world-over even in cases of disagreement, have passed on.<br>
Rabbis Moshe Feinstein, Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Menachem Schneerson,<br>
Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, and Ovadiah Yosef are all gone</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe my memory is failing me, but I believe people were lamenting the lack of universally recognized gedolim while Rav Elyashiv and Rav Ovadiah Yosef were still alive and active. And if someone writes a similar article in another few decades, perhaps some of today's great poskim will have been added posthumously to the list...</div><div><br></div><div>Not to be cynical, but could it be that one of the factors that makes a gadol universally recognized and accepted across Orthodoxy is that he is no longer among the living?</div><div><br></div><div>Kol tuv,</div><div>Ilana</div></div><br></div></div>