More on Daas Torah – R’ Mordechai Gifter:
“This is what we call daas Torah, meaning that the judgement of the person who studies is united with the mystery of Torah. It is this daas Torah that the great figures of all generations are privileged to have. By means of this daas Torah, the great men of Torah actually see what others, at best know but do not see. The great Torah leaders are granted a ‘visual sense’ from the world of the Torah’s mystery, the world of eternity,at a time when smaller people understand and feel everything only according to our small world, the revealed world.
Woe to those who pose questions in the name of Torah – sincerely or insincerely – to the Torah greats, to the point where they ask, ‘Who appointed them gedolim that we must obey them?’ Such people would reduce Torah authority to the miniscule dimension of an appointment or position. Not only do the Torah giants understand wisdom, they see deeply in wisdom, as Shlomo HaMelech said, ‘Velibi ra’ah harbeh chochmah – My heart saw much wisdom'”