WIY: It is very close ot shabbos here on the East Coast and I will be brief. Note that I am of chassidic stock and therefore am very familiar with many stories of rebbes and the wonders surrounding them. I wish that the so-called litvishe world would accept these too.
I did not say- by the way-that the story CANNOT be true but that it has a very familiar ring and that, therefore, it may or may not be genuine.
There are,indeed, many stories of “shelo kederach hateva”, many of them very unusual but most of them unverifiable. I believe in my “rebbeim’ but I don’t have to make them infallible or having ruach hakodesh.
Where you and I differ markedly is how to accept a Godol’s words. I maintain they are not infallible and are human beings with human failings. You are entitled to follow their every word but I am entitled to be more skeptical.If this makes me an apikores-then there are many more around. You may think differently. And,btw, I do not know the story of the grasshopper. And, of course, no one questions the hasmodo of some gedolim. Does that make them infallible?
gut shabbos.