QUESTION:
Is there a way to tell if someone has real Ruach HaKodesh or if he just has an ability to “see” things from an impure source?
ANSWER:
It is very hard for a regular person to figure this out. Sometimes a person has revelations that come from an unholy source. He may be a person who isn’t careful with halachah [and in that case, if he has revelations, they aren’t coming from a holy source]. And sometimes it is harder to tell if the person’s revelations are genuine or not, because they can be a mixture of good and bad together, since the sefarim teach that there are revelations that are able to come from the mixture of good and evil. Inner wisdom is needed in order to discern where another person is getting his revelations from.
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