Reply To: Gadol vs. Gadolei Hador

I think UJM makes the crucial point that all of these honorific titles are relative. Not l’havdil to compare it to sports, politics or other sectors but absent objective and universally agreed upon metrics, there really is no way to “prove” who was the “greatest” or “most important” anything. That doesn’t preclude frequent media efforts to use such honorifics or even promote readership around readership surveys. Several of the above posts are really informative and educational (at least for me) as to how the concept has evolved in the past several decades.