Chasidut su Proverbi 24:16

For the tzaddik will fall seven times and rise while the wicked will stumble within Evil (Prov. 24:16).

And the reason why he must fall from his level is this: because there are fallen souls; those that fell during the six days of Creation and those that fell in each and every generation. And they are reincarnated, and they are fugitive and wanderer (Gen. 4:12) and can not come to Blessed God because they have nothing through which to come; for in their life of life-force they engaged in this world’s vanities and achieved nothing. But when the tzaddik falls from his level and afterward rises as in the verse, seven times the tzaddik falls and stands (Proverbs 24:16), when he stands and rises up to Blessed God he lifts with him those souls we have mentioned. Now, he can only lift those souls who are from his root; and therefore every person must fall from his level in order to lift up the souls that are from his root, and understand this.

But nevertheless, even when the aspect of Divinity that he had leaves him, nevertheless an imprint of Holiness is left in him through which he can strengthen himself as we have said. For without this he would remain Below, God forbid, after the Holiness leaves; and through the remaining of the imprint he strengthens himself as we have said. For that is the nature of Holiness: that even after it leaves an imprint remains behind, as our Sages of Blessed memory said, “The Shekhinah has never moved from the Western Wall” (Exodus Rabbah 2.2). And that is [the meaning of the verse], for the tzaddik falls seven times and rises (Prov. 24:16), meaning that he falls in order to be rising to an even greater level. And all of this is for a tzaddik; but someone who is not within the bounds of tzaddik, the Holy Blessed One devises plans so that the banished one will not remain an outcast (2 Sam. 14:14) and wants to draw him close to God. But because he is not attached to the Blessed Creator he falls to a place of Judgments. For there are no Judgments upon someone who is attached to the Blessed Creator, since he is attached to the Source of the Life of Lives, where there is no Judgment. But in the opposite case, one who is not attached, then [God] contracts Godself, as if it were possible, to the human, [God’s] Divinity to the place where that person is, in those Judgments that come upon him. For through this [the person] will draw closer to Blessed God and will come to the aspect of Beersheba, which is to attach to [God’s] Blessed Reverence, which is called “The Well [be’er] of Living Water,” for one who is attached to this is sated [save’ah] from all the Eternal Good.