Rav Chaim Vital wrote a book called Sha’arei Kedusha the Gates of Holiness. He writes that every person, every one of us, can and is meant to merit ruach hakodesh, Divine Inspiration. Literally always constantly being connected to the Light of the Creator.
How do you do it? By becoming holy, by becoming pure.
One of the unique qualities of this Shabbat, this reading, is that it was said in the gathering of all the people. This is one of the only times when the Creator called everybody together. He gathered everybody together to tell every single one of us. Every single one of us can merit ruach hakodesh. Every single one of us can merit Divine Inspiration; a complete and total connection to the Light of the Creator, a complete and total bond. But it has to come with a strengthening of our purity.
Sometimes we allow ourselves not to be pure. We say you know, so what if I’ll be pure? Where will that get me to? As the Or Chaim, the great kabbalist Rabbi Chaim ben Attar explains, it’s a continual life-long process.
Knowing that we have that capacity, that we have that ability, that’s number one. The RaMCHaL, Rabbi Chaim Moshe Luzzatto the great Italian kabbalist, in Mesilat Yesharim writes the pathways. He quotes the saying of Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair. Have clarity on the fact. Know and never forget that no matter where we are now every single one of us can and is meant to get to that level of ruach hakodesh, to the level of Divine Inspiration.
And number two, knowing how to achieve it. As Rav Ashlag learned from his teacher. Think: If it’s not tomorrow, if it’s not next year, it’s in my future. I’m going to achieve the Divine Inspiration, ruach hakodesh.
What does that mean about how I can allow myself to act? Or how I direct my life?
What happens is we often, not we, the negative side tells us: You know what, how high can you go? How high can you go? Because we don’t believe that we have the capacity for ruach hakodesh, for Divine Inspiration, we allow ourselves to act in ways that won’t bring us there.