Know! when a great true tzaddik reveals wonderful and awesome original Torah insights, it is beneficial for those on a lesser level. Through this, a lesser level [tzaddik] gains prominence, such that everyone runs and comes to him.

In the Other Side, too, there is one who gains prominence in this way. We find this of Bilaam. When God gave the Torah to the Jewish people, all the nations came to Bilaam (as our Sages, of blessed memory, taught; Zevachim 116a).

It follows, that as a result of the Torah being given to the Jews, Bilaam gained prominence and the entire world came to him, whereupon he delivered a Torah lesson based on some verse. For when they came to him, they asked what they asked—“God sat enthroned at the Flood” (Psalms 29:10)—and he, basing himself on Scripture, answered them: “God [will give] strength” (ibid: 11).

And the same is true of the Jews themselves, who are holy and would not come to Bilaam or anyone like him, God forbid. But when a great true tzaddik reveals original Torah insights, and as a result there is a great uproar that he is revealing such awesome original insights, everyone then gathers and comes to someone of a lesser level. They assemble by him to hear from him, on account of the uproar created by the great tzaddik’s original insights, and he bases himself on some verse and says to them what he says.