apush:
“Why is the concept “gadol hador” even relevant? do we find the tannoim trying to determine who was the gadol hador? amoroim? did the baalei tosfos ask who was greater the rashbam or his younger brother rabbeinu tam? did it even enter their mind to ask? that this is a topic of conversation is ludicrous .”
Then don’t click the thread. I think the people attacking this thread on some kind of imaginary moral grounds are the ones taking it too seriously, not the other way around. It’s just a curiosity. Would you rather us discuss who the most popular celebrity in pop-culture is?