Chasidut su Numeri 11:15

When I search for the model of such a fellowship in the Torah, I discover it in the ‘students of the prophets,’ which includes the prophets of each generation, those whose words were not recorded. Even regarding the supernal sefirot, each can only receive in accordance to its influence on the sefirah below it. When Moses our Rabbi, father of the prophets, saw how Israel had fallen from their yearning and supernal cleaving, as they requested meat for pleasure, he said to the Holy Blessed One: “If You would deal thus with me, [kill me rather]...and let me see no more my wretchedness;” and He said to him, “Gather for Me seventy of Israel’s elders...and I will draw upon the spirit that is on you and put it on them…”⁵⁰⁴Numbers 11: 15-16. God chose seventy men to be with him for the reason we have explained: because Israel could not receive greatness, a casting of light and continuous prophecy, as before, which is why Moses called it “my wretchedness”—that is, a deficiency which affects the giver as well. Therefore, and from then on in, He would give to the seventy elders—“and I will draw upon the spirit which is on you and put it on them.” That is, through them [i.e. the elders,] Moses too could receive [prophecy], or reveal that which he had already received. And through them, they and Moses spiritually influenced all of Israel.⁵⁰⁵So too, the rebbe himself can only sustain his spiritual level through the support and influence of his devoted hasidim, members of the fellowship.