Question

Hello Rabbi,
 
I wanted to share an interesting gem that I think you may find interesting. The well-known Talmudic statement says (Sabbath 112b): “Rabbi Zeira said in the name of Rava bar Zimuna: If the medieval authorities were sons of angels, we are sons of men.” That is, it comes to extol the greatness of the earlier authorities, who are like angels, while we are only human beings. But in Nachmanides it seems that he uses this expression in the opposite sense (Bava Metzia 98a): “Even though the earlier ones are angels, we are human beings, and the truth will show us its way.”