The made-up “Posek Hador\Posek Acharon” concept is ridiculous, but some Jews have talked themselves into believing that it’s objective reality.
Rabbi Nochum Eisenstein (whom we’ve debated vigorously here in the past) has a hoary halachic history for you.
Interviewed on the Headlines in Halacha show (6/23/18, 175 #, “Geirim – Should we accept them or is the Syrian edict the correct model?“), Rabbi Eisenstein announced the following official, Yatedesque doctrine:
Hold your hat:
- First Rabbi Chaim Ozer was the Posek Acharon.
- Then, came Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.
- And finally, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv.
Hear Rabbi Esenstein’s alternate Hashkafa-reality here (minute 50-51).
How obvious…