We know that the Torah is our life, and if we separate ourselves from the Torah, it’s as if we separate ourselves from life!
In this profound Torah, we uncover why the true tzadik has to act simply sometimes (cease from engaging in the Torah) and where he receives his vitality during the time in his state of simplicity. This also begs the understanding of knowing where we receive our life force from when we aren’t engaged in Torah!
Rabeinu connects this to the creation of the world, in which G-d maintained the world (for the 26 generations preceding the giving of the Torah) solely through his kindness alone, from a place called the אוצר מתנת חנם - the treasure house of unconditional gifts!
Rabeinu explains this in connection with the pathway which leads to the Land of Israel and how the tzadik sustains himself from this same place when he is simple. The tzadik then brings life force to all the simple people of the world…
This also relates to Moshe Rabeinu’s final request to enter Eretz Yisrael, and Rabeinu teaches us about NEVER GIVING UP!
“אין שום יאוש בעולם כלל” - “There’s no such thing as despair in the world, at all!”
Rabeinu also emphasizes how important it is to attach oneself to the true tzadik, and explains that the evil inclination puts all his effort into confusing a person about where the truth lies… so we must beg HASHEM that he allows us to draw close to the true tzadik!