Parshat Miketz – We have no comprehension of the mind of the tzaddik: If a person does not know what a tzaddik is, if a person does not grasp what the tzaddik is, then he can fall from the tzaddik!

"One must search for the true tzaddik": In all three parshas, Vayeshev, Miketz, and Vayigash, the tribes search for the "Tzaddik Yesod Olam"! The true tzaddik! Yosef the tzaddik. In Parshat "Vayigash" the tzaddik cries out "I am Yosef"!! – The true tzaddik is revealed! The brothers were all true tzaddikim, holy ones, but they did not believe that Yosef was the "Tzaddik Yesod Olam". The brothers were mistaken about Yosef, they thought Yosef the tzaddik was like them, and he just served Hashem more than them, learned more, guarded his eyes more, each brother was sure he was the true tzaddik, but they did not know that the Tzaddik Yesod Olam is something entirely different, Yosef the tzaddik illuminated from one end of the world to the other.

We have no comprehension of the mind of the tzaddik": If a person does not know what a tzaddik is, if a person does not grasp what the tzaddik is, then he can fall from the tzaddik! If a person follows the tzaddik without understanding, he can fall from the emunah (faith) in the tzaddik! One must deeply understand what a true tzaddik is! One must understand what the neshamah (soul) of the tzaddik is! One must understand what kind of mind the tzaddik has! The holy Arizal says in Shaar HaPesukim that the tzaddik has such a mind… such a mind! That Hashem will revive the dead with the mind of the tzaddik! Hashem will use the mind of the tzaddik to revive the dead!! The mind of the tzaddik revives the dead! We have no comprehension of the mind of the tzaddik!! But whoever merits to be connected to the true tzaddik! Whoever merits to connect to the mind of the tzaddik will merit the resurrection of the dead!

He will merit the sea splitting for him! He will merit miracles and wonders.

"I want everyone to be redeemed": The tzaddik can revive the dead! The tzaddik of the generation is not just any tzaddik! Hashem will revive the dead with the mind of the tzaddik! The tzaddik of the generation is not called the tzaddik of the generation because he has ten thousand chassidim! Or if he has twenty thousand chassidim... then he is twice the tzaddik of the generation! The tzaddik is not just a tzaddik who learned well or prayed well, the tzaddik is something entirely different! He can revive the dead, and he also does not wait for people to believe in him! Moshe did not wait for people to believe in him! The Rebbe did not wait for people to believe in him! The tzaddik does not wait for people to believe in him! When Hashem sent Moshe to redeem the people of Israel, Moshe argued with Hashem, why should someone who does not believe in me have to die?! If someone does not believe in me, should he die?! I am not willing! I am going! I want everyone to be redeemed! Moshe was not just a tzaddik who would come and say come! Believe in me, there will be redemption! Enough… do me a favor, believe in me, there will be redemption! Rather, Moshe had love for Israel! He said to Hashem, I am not willing! I want everyone to be redeemed! I am not willing for Jews to die! So Hashem said to him, there is no choice, you must go to redeem the people of Israel! The redemption will be! In the tzaddik, there is no grasp! In the tzaddik, there is no comprehension! The tzaddik says there will be redemption! And he redeems!! And whoever merits to follow him is redeemed! Whoever believes in him jumps into the sea, and the sea splits.

"The tzaddik reveals that there is Hashem in the world": Because the true tzaddik comes only for one thing – to reveal Hashem, the true tzaddik comes to reveal that there is Hashem in the world, that a person should not think he acts on his own power, that he can walk, that he can do things alone, run alone, act alone, without Hashem. Because even though here he gets a blow on the hand, and here he gets a blow on the leg, he still thinks, I am walking, I am running, I am doing. A person thinks he is the ruler of the world, he walks, he breathes, and therefore they show him in one second, that if something small in the body moves a fraction of a millimeter, then it's over! Immediately he needs surgeries, tests, scans, and then he already sees that he is not God, he is not an angel, he is not the ruler of the world.

"Only the tzaddik can show that there is Hashem": Life teaches us slowly, that a person is built "with many openings, many cavities, known and revealed before Your glorious throne, that if one of them were to open or close, it would be impossible to exist and stand before You even for one hour". When a person reaches the age of 60, already a vertebra starts to move here, and a tendon starts to move there, at age 60 the leg dries up, the tendon dries up. Until age 60, a person can deceive himself, that he is something, that he is all-powerful, but at this age, he already sees with his senses that he is really not something, here I fell, here I can no longer walk. But who can open our eyes! And show us when we are healthy, strong, and robust that everything is Hashem!! Health is from Hashem! Strength is from Hashem! Everything is from Hashem!! It is only the tzaddik who is in the aspect of Yosef! Only he can show us that there is Hashem in the world.

"In every step to see Hashem": All we came to the world for is to know that we do nothing, we came to know that Hashem leads the world, we just need to see godliness, to see Hashem, in every step to see Hashem, in every movement to see Hashem, in every thought and speech to see Hashem. A person moves a hand, moves a foot, it's all Hashem. Hashem moves the hand! Hashem moves the foot! A person lives in the world, "a man of the world", builds buildings, builds yeshivas, if he does not know that Hashem did everything, then everything is a Tower of Babel! As King Solomon said, "I have built a lofty house for You". Immediately Hashem said: I have built!? You built? If so, it is decreed that the house will be destroyed. Say Hashem built! Hashem did! The Maggid of Mezritch in the well-known story forbade saying the word I. Tzaddikim were careful not to say the word I.

"It is not at all one": A person says the word I, woe and alas! The tzaddik is the spirit! The tzaddik is a man in whom there is spirit! There is no spirit of folly in him! Therefore, he can nullify pride! Because there is no advice for pride! No advice! The advised advice to nullify pride is only to draw close to the tzaddik! Only through the tzaddik is pride subdued! Only through the tzaddik is the high spirit subdued! One must find such a tzaddik in whom there is spirit! Who is completely nothing! More humble than any man! Because a person has pride from everything! From every speech, he has pride! From every thought, he has pride! Whatever he does, he is full of pride! He will learn, he will pray, he will receive a thought of pride! But the tzaddik who is a man in whom there is spirit, in whom there is no spirit of folly! He removes all the spirit of folly from everyone! The tzaddik is a vacuum! He subdues the high spirit, the idolatry, and makes from another! One! Hashem is one! Without the tzaddik, it is another god of pride, if you do not have the tzaddik, then it is another god! It is not at all one! You shout Hashem is one! Even Ishmael shouts Hashem is great!! Through the tzaddik, one merits to one.

"The first thing one must know is what the world stands on": All the Torah, all the Gemara, Shulchan Aruch, all the Yoreh De'ah, all the prayers are only so that we know that Hashem does everything, that there is Hashem in the world, we do nothing, we do not move a hand, we do not move a foot, we do not breathe, "Every neshamah (soul) will praise Yah, hallelujah" every breath is from Hashem. All the work of a person for 120 years is to know who the tzaddik is through whom life flows to the whole world, thanks to whom abundance comes to the world, as the Gemara tells about Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa: "The whole world is sustained by the merit of my son Chanina, and Chanina is satisfied with a kav of carobs". The first thing a Jew must know is what the world stands on, thanks to whom the world is sustained, one must search for who this tzaddik is through whom the world is truly sustained, search for who these tzaddikim are who uphold the world, who are the tzaddikim who protect us.

"He only sees good in everyone": The sign that a person has reached the tzaddik is when he begins to hate his own evil! He begins to hate his own inclinations, he begins to hate all the material things that surround him! He only hates the body! The bad things! All the desires! At the very least, he does not make them an ideal! He does not boast about them. The moment a person draws close to the true tzaddik, he only seeks the good things, he sees only good in everyone, he does not speak about anyone, he begins to love the people of Israel, loves them with all his soul, gives his life for everyone, he only wants to leave all his bad traits, and merits to return in complete teshuvah (repentance) to Hashem.

"More life and more life": All the work of a person is to search for the true tzaddik, to discover who the true tzaddik is. In every generation, there is a true tzaddik, and the moment a person knows who the true tzaddik is, then he can bring all the healings to the world, all the salvations to the world, because all the salvations are in the hands of the tzaddik, therefore one must constantly search for the tzaddik, all the work from the day a person is born until the day he passes away, is to search for the tzaddik! He must know that as much as he has discovered in the tzaddik, he has still discovered nothing! And only when the tzaddik is something new to him, and he searches for the tzaddik with all his strength, then he will be given more life and more life. And one must be careful about this! And know that for this he came to the world! For this he was born! Everything he learns, everything he does, is only to ask and search for the true Rebbe.

"One must go on his hands and feet": A person must receive "Nefesh", "Ruach", "Neshamah", "Chayah" "and Yechidah". The Arizal says that through learning Shas and Poskim, Rishonim and Acharonim, one receives the "Nefesh". It could be that you have already received the nefesh through learning Torah, it is wonderful because without Torah there is not even a nefesh! But you cannot progress! If you do not search for the tzaddik, then you cannot receive the "Ruach", you cannot receive the "Neshamah", you remain at the same level! Because only through the tzaddik can one receive the "Ruach", and this is what the Arizal explains, that there are tzaddikim who pass away at a young age, because they learned Torah and merited to receive the "Nefesh" but did not search for the tzaddik and remained at the same level (Nefesh), and therefore they had nothing more to do in the world, therefore one must always search and ask very much for the tzaddik who has all the salvations and all the healings and all the blessings, and he will give you the "Ruach", the "Neshamah" and Rabbi Natan says that one must go on his hands and feet, to ask and search for the tzaddik with all his strength in the whole world.

"The true tzaddik has the power to rectify the whole world": Because this tzaddik can bring the whole world back to good. If people would draw close to him and believe in him, they would come out of all their evil and be completely purified, because the tzaddik who has already come out of the four elements, who has purified all the four elements, who is already clean of all desire, he can take all the people of the world out of their evil, out of their desires. And this is what the Gaon Rabbi Meir Simcha HaCohen of Dvinsk (the author of "Ohr Sameach" on the Rambam), says about the Gemara in Tractate Sotah (13a) "And they lamented there a great and very heavy lamentation" (Genesis 50:10) "It was taught even horses and even donkeys". – Rabbi Meir Simcha HaCohen says – "They lamented a great lamentation" even the horses lamented for Yaakov Avinu! It was such a great lamentation! Such a heavy lamentation that the horses cried!! The donkeys cried!!

Everyone cried for the tzaddik!! The horses felt that the tzaddik was gone! The donkeys felt that the tzaddik was no more! "The ox knows its owner, the donkey its master's trough, Israel does not know, my people do not consider" the horses acknowledge the true tzaddik! The donkeys acknowledge the true tzaddik! It is truly a shame and disgrace how people do not see the tzaddik! How people are blind!

They wander the world not knowing who the tzaddik is.

"Even horses and donkeys felt they were lost without the tzaddik": A person with his pride, with his inclinations, he does not want to believe in the tzaddik, he does not want to know who the tzaddik is, but the horses and the donkeys felt they were lost without the tzaddik, who will sustain the world! Who will protect them! Who guards the horses!? Who guards the donkeys? Who protects the world!? They know thanks to whom they live. If the tzaddik is not present, there will be famine! There will be a Holocaust in the world! There will be wars! This is what Rabbi Meir Simcha HaCohen says – start seeing the tzaddikim! Start following the tzaddikim! Open your eyes and see who the tzaddik is thanks to whom you live…