We've been quoting from the Chazon Ish, in his sefer Emunah and Bitachon. He writes that sometimes when someone has bitachon, in his words, There's a Ruach Hakodesh/Divine Inspiration, that dwells on him and accompanies with him Ruach Oz, a strength and a courage that tells him the news that Hashem will help him.
That means sometimes a person just has a feeling inside of him. The Chazon Ish calls this feeling a Ruach Hakodesh, so obviously we're not talking about simple levels. He says, This concept will switch, depending on the level, and his great holiness. What exactly does it mean that a person gets Ruach Hakodesh/a feeling of sorts, that Hashem is with him?
Rav Chaim Kanievsky explains, based on the fact that the Gemara says that although today we no longer have prophecy, but we still have a type of prophecy that exists.
The Ramban says in Baba Batra, that even though prophecy was taken from the prophets, the prophecy that comes through wisdom wasn't taken away. It’s not a prophecy that prophets have, but it’s a kind that comes to someone that's learning. And he explains that sometimes a wise man feels as if God told him.
That's nothing that I've ever experienced. But you feel like God's telling you. Rav Chaim says that this is what the Chazon Ish is talking about. The person actually feels like he has a prophecy of sorts, that this is going to work, and he just goes forward, even though it's something that's supernatural.
Rav Bloch, in his sefer Iggeret Al HaBitachon, has a different explanation, based on the Even Shlema, a commentary on the Gaon of Vilna from Rav Shmuel Meltzin.
He says that it has nothing to do with prophecy. It has do strictly with the level of bitachon a person has which gives him a certain courage. Like how Rav Chanina Ben Dosa that said to the lady who was trying to cast witchcraft on him, “You can't hurt me, En Od Milevado.”
He quotes the famous Nefesh HaChaim, that when a person has tremendous, high levels of bitachon, that gives him a certain feeling of strength. And he quotes the prophet Gidon, where it says Ruach Hashem was on Gidon, but Ruach Hashem doesn't mean prophecy. In the words of Rabbi Meltzin, it means he felt a certain courage to go against the nature and this is every person on their level.
And that is something that cannot be exactly described. Sometimes a person just has that strength, that feeling. As Rav Volozhin once said about himself (which is the source of this): He had been wearing leeches for medicinal purposes, but while he was at a bitachon class given by the Gaon of Vilna, he just had them removed. Then, he met up with someone a few days later, and the leeches were back on again.
And he said, “I no longer feel the feeling that I felt when the class is being given.”
Sometimes a person has a certain feeling inside of him- It’s going to be fine, and I'm okay. I'm good with this. I don't need to do more hishtadlut.
(Don't fool yourself, though, if you're not holding there) So, in the words of the Rabbi Meltzin, It's something that's given to someone's heart, to be able to feel that courage, that true strength of bitachon. And in that situation, it's almost like he's getting a little whisper from above that it's going to be okay.
Have a wonderful day.