Chasidut su Giudici 4:26

We are not so brazen, God forbid, to (attempt to) comprehend nor even inquire into the matter of the prophets and that which the godly sage R. Shimon b. Yokhai grasped. But we have already cited from the introduction to Shaarei Kedushah of R. Hayyim Vital that prophecy is an avodah, one which continues to our own day. Though the ways and path of R. Hayyim Vital are concealed from us—and what business would we have in examining those levels and steps on the ladder reaching heaven?²⁹²A reference to the ladder in Jacob’s dream; see Genesis 28.—nevertheless, it says in Tanna d’Bei Eliyahu²⁹³A midrashic collection, redacted in c. 10th century CE. on the verse “And Deborah the prophetess” (Judges 4:4): “I call upon Heaven and Earth to testify that a man or a woman, kuthite or Israelite, servant or maid—the Holy Spirit rests upon each in accordance with his deeds.” A Jew nowadays is certainly not inferior to a kuthite [Gentile] of those days, and so today as well every Jew has the ability to merit the Holy Spirit according to his deeds and avodah. If, to our sorrow, we have not merited this, permission is at least granted us to understood their words—not according to their holy state, but in correlation to the light with which they illumine us; and, not to offer our own explanations, but rather to understand just a bit of their words, and as explained by those very words.