If a tzaddik is the head of the generation, rooted in the deepest source of Divine life, how is it that even those who oppose him, who rebel against kedusha, still continue to live and receive vitality?

Rav Shlomo Katz brings down the Alter Rebbe’s mystical explanation: that even rebellion draws from holiness, but only through concealment, through a backchannel that hides the light even as it gives life.

Once you understand where life really comes from, you start to choose differently.

There’s no such thing as being disconnected. The only question is: Are you receiving from the face… or the back?