Hi,
"The second level of prophecy:
"When a person
finds that something has set upon him, a force has newly arrived, and it makes
him speak, speaking in wisdom or in praises or in effective instruction, in
practical or spiritual matters, and he is awake and using his senses normally,
this person may be said to speak with ruach hakodesh.
"With this breed of ruach hakodesh King David composed Tehillim;
and Shlomo composed Mishlei, Kohelet and Shir haShirim; and Daniel and Iyov and
Divrei haYamim and the rest of the Ketuvim were composed with this breed
of ruach hakodesh. Thus they are called Ketuvim ["written"],
to say that they were written with ruach hakodesh. And the sages said
explicitly, 'The book of Esther was stated with ruach hakodesh'…
"This is not full prophecy, not like 'The word of Gd came to Avram
in a vision, saying,' and not like, 'And Gd said to Israel in the
visions of the night,' and not like the prophecies of Yeshayahu and
Yirmiyahu. Regarding each of them, even though the prophecy came in a dream,
the prophecy itself informed him that it was prophecy, coming to him prophetically…
"This level is below that of 'I speak in a dream' [words with which Gd described low-level prophecy] for those
who prophesy in a dream do not call it a dream in any way, once the prophecy
comes to them in the dream. They declare it a prophecy, entirely. It is as our ancestor Yaakov said when he woke from the prophetic dream; he did not say it was
a dream, but he declared, 'Gd is in this place, etc.'… And this is
why the nation determined to arrange the book of Daniel among the Ketuvim,
not the Neviim."
(Rambam, Moreh haNevuchim 1:45)
כתיבה וחתימה טובה,
Mordechai
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