Reply To: Who is Rav Shlomo Kanievsky? Is he being groomed to be the next Godol HaDor?

The difference between Ashkenaz and Sephardic Torah is not about the gedolim. It is that the average ashkenazic baalei batim were more learned than the sephardim. The european tailor might not know all of shas but he could at least learn through gemara and Tosfos that he remembered from his yeshiva days. This is something that Rav Ovadya had to change and it is much better now, at least in EY.