The Gadol HaDor

Moshe Feinstein

The Gadol HaDor is the greatest rabbi of his generation. This position is attained, not by a process or a career, but rather by consensus. The Gadol HaDor is the one able to respond the most difficult halakhic problems of his generation.

Each major Jewish group may have its own Gadol HaDor.

A list of indisputable Gedolim HaDor:

• Moshe Feinstein (1895-1986)
• Joseph Soloveitchik (1903-1993) ?
• Aharon Lichtenstein (1933-2015) ?
• Yosef Shalom Elyashiv (1910-2012)
• Aharon Leib Shteinman (1914-2017)
• Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (1910-2012)
• Ovadia Yosef (1920-2013) Sepharadi
• Rashba (Shlomo ben Aderet) (1235–1310)
• Shmayah (1st c. BCE)
• Avtalyon (1st c. BCE)

References

http://haemtza.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-making-of-gadol-20.html