popa: However if he says something wrong in torah while claiming infallibility, he is a navi sheker and must be strangled instead.
itche: I’m getting kind of annoyed by your harping on the infallibility bit.
Yes, we know that nobody is infallible, and we know that is not a torah hashkafa.
We also know that there are many times we follow our leaders as if they were just about infallible. For example, when there was a sanhedrin, their decisions would be koveah halacha, even if completely wrong in an objective sense.
But the real issue is, that you are using this as a way of framing the debate over whether rabbonim are bound to follow “gedolim”.
I don’t think this is the proper way to frame it, since I don’t think anybody imagines that rabbonim are bound to follow “gedolim” because “gedolim” are infallible.
You are never going to convince me, if we aren’t arguing on shared premises.