https://mishpacha.com/just-plain-chutzpah/
Perhaps a brief review of Chazal’s description of the role of the gadol hador of each generation is in order.
The Ran in his derashos says that in every generation, Hashem puts His Shechinah on the gedolei hador. Just as the Shechinah was placed in the Beis Hamikdash and spread throughout Klal Yisrael, so too in every generation the Shechinah rests on the gadol hador and spreads from there to Klal Yisrael. Chazal in Masechta Bava Basra(12a) teach us that although nevuah was taken from the prophets when the Beis Hamikdash was destroyed, it was not taken from the scholars.
The Ponevezher Rav always taught his students that he lived with the words of this Chazal throughout his life. “In Europe, I accepted the words of my rebbi, the Chofetz Chaim ztz”l, as if they were the words of a navi. After coming to Eretz Yisrael, I accepted the words of the Chazon Ish ztz”l as a navi.”
He explained that he was capable of disagreeing with the Chazon Ish when it came to understanding Torah the same way he was able to disagree with Rav Akiva Eiger. But when it came to worldly matters, he said each and every word that issued from the Chazon Ish’s lips was pure brilliance and to him was “Torah miSinai.”
You start with "a brief review of Chazal’s description" but then quote the Ran who was a Rishon.
ReplyDelete>nevuah was taken from the prophets when the Beis Hamikdash was destroyed, it was not taken from the scholars.
But didn't they also say that we don't pasken halakha from nevu'ah?
And don't we have repeated statements by Rishonim and Acharonim that the "scholars" the Talmud refers to don't exist anymore?