QUESTION:
The Rambam says that prophecy will return before Mashiach arrives. If we are right before Mashiach’s arrival then where is the return of prophecy?
ANSWER:
That was what Rav [Avraham Yitzchok HaKohen] Kook held – and that is why he tried to revive the spirit of prophecy within his Torah teachings and in the way of serving Hashem that he taught. But the Gedolim disagreed with him, because it was reminiscent of the tribe of Ephraim who tried to bring the Geulah from Egypt before its time – the time for the Geulah hadn’t yet come.
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