Aposhitehyid; owing to chazal’s idea of yeridas hadoros, nobody in a later generation is greater than that of a previous one. If Hashem has thousands of tzadikim, neviim and chachamim who were all greater than even our greatest, He would take one of them. There’s a limit to the “no one knows who’s greater” idea that the rambam writes about – it’s also more about nekudas habechira than actual madrega, meaning I can look at a tzadik and know that objectively he’s on a high madrega, but his relative level of chashivus would depend on factors that a person cannot know, such as nisyonos etc
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