Reply To: Ailu v'ailu…please explain this concept

Shlishi: Some comparisons are obvious. Comparing R’ Moshe to any Shul Rav or Rebbe in a Yeshivah now is obvious. Comparing, say, Rav Schachter to Rav Belsky is not obvious at all. When people are levels apart you clearly can tell. That doesn’t mean that you can tell the difference between any two great Talmidei Chachamim (or even any two big, but not great, Talmidei Chachamim). Or are you claiming that you could look and tell the difference between Rav Ovadia and Rav Elyashiv. Or between R’ Mordechai Eliyahu and R’ Bentzion Abba Shaul? Or between R’ Chaim Kanievsky and R’ Shternbuch? Sometimes the answer is obvious. But sometimes it really isn’t for any individual to say.