Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled.

Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.

Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.