Likutay Moharan - Volume 2 - Torah-teaching 57

Likutay Moharan II, Torah 57: When a Great True Tzadik Reveals Torah

Know that when a great true tzadik [righteous one] reveals Torah [Torah teaching], wondrous and awesome chiddushim [new insights], it is a benefit to those of lesser stature. For through this, the one of lesser stature is elevated, that everyone runs and comes to him. And also in the sitra achara [other side], one is elevated through this, as we find with Bilaam, when Hashem, blessed be He, gave the Torah to Israel, all the nations came to Bilaam, as our Sages, of blessed memory, said (Zevachim 116). It is found that through the giving of the Torah to Israel, Bilaam was elevated, and the whole world came to him, and he stood himself on some verse and said to them Torah. For then, when they came to him, they asked him what they asked: “Hashem sat at the flood” (Psalms 29:10), and he stood on a verse and answered them: “Hashem is strength”, and so forth. And similarly with Israel themselves who are in holiness and do not come, heaven forbid, to Bilaam and the like. But when a great true tzadik reveals chiddushim and a great commotion is made that he reveals such awesome chiddushim, then everyone gathers and comes to some one of lesser stature and assembles to him to hear from him because of the commotion made through the chiddushim that the great tzadik reveals. And he stands himself on some verse and says to them what he says.