[Avodah] Looking for sources about Chazal's Ruach

[hankman]

RMB wrote: "IOW, ruach haqodesh is obtaining knowledge. There is nothing there about
a conscious experience of receiving it. Just that the author wrote
megillas Esther, and post facto it's obvious s/he described things s/he
couldn't have otherwise known."

1) The distinctions at the lower end of the spectrum I referred to in my post are still not clear to me and not yet addressed. The knowledge the author of ME included in Megilla but could not have known on his own could also have come from sod HaShem el yerai'ov or seyata DiShemaya not just ruach hakodesh.

2) If one says for example that chidushai Torah were nisgaleh  al pi ruach hakodesh to some kadosh, but chidushai Torah he might have come to on his own so how do we (he) know it was ruach hakodesh, as opposed to sod HaShem el yerai'ov, seyata DiShemaya or even his "own" thoughts? I presume these are not synonymous terms.

3) Finally, this gemara can not be used to differentiate the latter three categories for us. Further nuance is needed.

Kol Tuv

Chaim Manaster
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