Damoshe – a statement that a gadol experienced something not seen since the rishonim doesn’t mean that they have the din of a rishon.
If you went to darchei you’d know about yeridas hadoros, that each generation is lower than the one above it.
“If the earlier ones were like angels, then we are like men, and if they were like men, then we are like donkeys, and not like the donkey of rebbe pinchas ben yair”
The chasam sofer writes that if we understand that the ones before us were like angels, then we’re bnei Adam. But if we think that the rishonim were people just like us, then were like donkeys
Why do you think that besides the Gaon, virtually no acharon argues with the rishonim? Why do you think rav akiva eiger asks bomb questions on the rishonim, questions that seem to completely demolish what they say, and end off by saying he’s not zocheh to understand their holy words?
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