Chabad's best and brightest are not sitting inside the yeshiva walls, nor did they sit and learn for 30 years to become the gadol hador or rosh yeshiva.— Mystical Paths
Yet while Weinberg wanted to live as a more modern type of rabbi, one who was a Zionist and academic scholar in addition to being a Torah sage, he wanted to be remembered as a gadol be-Yisrael.— Your Moral Leader
We all grew up on the chassidishe maaslech of this or that spirit of some long dead gadol appearing to someone and direcing him how to proceed successfully to maneuver through some problem.— Life in Israel
Maybe also kabalat sicha gadol mekabalat pnei hashechina?— Israelated - English Israel blogs
(The opposite of a rosh katan is a rosh gadol, a "big head," who is skilled at improvisation.)— Israel Palestine Blogs

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