{"id":41670,"date":"2012-03-14T08:50:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T16:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41670"},"modified":"2012-03-14T08:57:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T16:57:25","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-a-torah-scholar-and-a-gadol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41670","title":{"rendered":"What’s The Difference Between A Torah Scholar And A Gadol?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a lecture on rabbinic biographies for Torah in Motion<\/a>, Orthodox rabbi and history professor Marc B. Shapiro<\/a> says: “In the haredi world [ultra-Orthodoxy], [Rav J.B. Soloveitchik<\/a>] is recognized as a Torah scholar but not as a gadol [great rabbi]. Why not? He knew as much as these others. He knew more than them. They know. They’ll tell you he knew more but the difference between a Torah scholar and a gadol is that the gadol has to hold by the da’as Torah<\/a> [general teachings of the senior haredi<\/a> rabbis], by the perspective established by the haredi sages of the previous generation like the Chazon Ish<\/a>. If you break with that and become a Zionist, you’re a Torah sage but not a gadol. You can see by Yated Ne’eman<\/a> in the Hebrew who’s a gadol, who gets the title of maran<\/a>, harav ha gaon and who just gets rabbi.<\/p>\n

“Ovadiah Yosef<\/a> used to be a gadol. Now he’s not. Hashkafah<\/a> (worldview) is the most important thing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a lecture on rabbinic biographies for Torah in Motion, Orthodox rabbi and history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: “In the haredi world [ultra-Orthodoxy], [Rav J.B. Soloveitchik] is recognized as a Torah scholar but not as a gadol [great rabbi]. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,18,19874,110],"tags":[19242,10063,29808,1949,8890,10164],"class_list":["post-41670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marc-b-shapiro","category-orthodoxy","category-r-j-b-soloveitchik","category-rabbis","tag-chazon-ish","tag-haredi-world","tag-marc-b-shapiro","tag-orthodox-rabbi","tag-torah-in-motion","tag-torah-scholar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41674,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41670\/revisions\/41674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}