... historical or otherwise.

The real question here is precognition.

Various schools teach that an adept can attain precognition of the sort people want.  This does not obtain, and cannot, as the future does not exist that way.

The student — who lives awake to his or her status as a child of G-d, as contrasted with the billions who sleepwalk like robots — is left in a quandry that can only be satisfied by developing a sense of intimate dependence on G-d, who is personally present to the individual from moment to moment, day to day.

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“What I admire is honesty and truth, no matter who, or what, the sources are.”
— Uri Yosef