At this point, it’s important to call attention to several cautions which have to be kept in mind concerning Facilitated Communication.

 

Do not go running to autistics and brain-damaged people as if they were sources of divine prophesy. We believe that our rabbis are God’s messengers in the world and it is forbidden to ask personal questions from the autistics. Galia has told me that anyone who asks personal questions can harm himself and interfere with his tikkun, the things his soul was sent to this world to rectify.

 

(She also told me that I am allowed to ask her personal questions since that is necessary for my work on behalf of the public, and also because it is necessary for the completion my soul needs and for her soul as well.)

 

Galia has told me that every message has to be confirmed by a reputable Rabbi, and it is forbidden to communicate in public or to turn this phenomenon into a public spectacle. She wrote that they get very upset in heaven at anyone who communicates in public or who uses this technique for communicating improperly, and anyone who does so will be severely punished.

 

It’s important to note that a number of prominent Rabbis have given their support to this way of communicating, including Rabbi Aharon Leib Steinman, shlita, and Rabbi Elya Weintraub in Bnei Brak, Dayan Krausz of Manchester, England, and the late Rabbi Nosson Wachtfogel, zatzal, the Mashgiach of the Lakewood Yeshiva. The book I’ve written has approbations from three rabbis: Rabbi Yehuda Sarebnik of Jerusalem, Rabbi Uri Zohar, and Rabbi Lugasi.

 

It is true that there has also been opposition to this activity, but in the past there was also opposition to many people and movements which are now widely accepted. There was opposition to the Chassidic movement and its founder, the holy Baal Shem Tov. There was opposition to the Ramchal, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, who wrote Messilat Yesharim, Daat Tevunot, and other works which are now universally respected classics of Jewish thought. I have heard from one rabbi that the classic Gates of Repentance was written by Rabeinu Yona as a way of repenting for his opposition to the Rambam. Nonetheless, anyone who still has any doubts about this can discuss it with Rabbi Aharon Leib Steinman of Bnei Brak, one of the leaders of our time.

 

When I speak with Galia, I talk normally, just as I would to any adult and she, who cannot pronounce a single word, answers me by pointing to letters on her alphabet chart. Throughout our conversations I say her messages out loud into a small tape recorder. At home I listen to her messages and write them out word for word.

 

One day Galia fell asleep in the middle of a session but her hand continued to write. I asked her, “Galia, how can it be that you’re sleeping and your hand continues to write?” She wrote back, “Mum, you’re communicating with my soul, and souls never sleep.”

 

I communicate with Galia through her soul, not through her intellect. Her intellect is that of a five-month-old infant. Once when I appeared on Israeli television, I was asked, “Maybe you’re moving Galia’s hand and writing what you want to?” I answered that I had proofs that it’s Galia who does the writing. In my book, Galia. Messages from Heaven, there are twenty-five proofs that the messages genuinely come from her and not from me.

 

On television I related the story of my sister, who was a policewoman for many years and totally non-religious. One time she needed a difficult operation on her abdomen. I was very concerned for her and asked Galia how I could help her. Galia answered, “She won’t have the operation, she doesn’t need the operation!” I told this to my sister but she didn’t believe me and got herself packed up for a long hospital stay. As they were preparing for the operation, just before they gave her the anaesthetic, the doctors examined her again and told her, “Go home, you don’t need an operation and you’ll be all right without it.” My sister was so happy and so excited, and today she keeps Shabbat, thank God.

 

I told the television interviewer that in the second volume of the book Galia. Messages from Heaven, Galia wrote to me that after the book was published, I would be interviewed in the media, and here he was interviewing me on television, just like she said would happen. I had no way of knowing beforehand that I would be interviewed on television with a million people watching, thank God. I was also interviewed for a newspaper.

 

It’s so amazing that everything Galia says happens.