Chasidut do Samuela II 14:14
כִּי־מ֣וֹת נָמ֔וּת וְכַמַּ֙יִם֙ הַנִּגָּרִ֣ים אַ֔רְצָה אֲשֶׁ֖ר לֹ֣א יֵאָסֵ֑פוּ וְלֹֽא־יִשָּׂ֤א אֱלֹהִים֙ נֶ֔פֶשׁ וְחָשַׁב֙ מַֽחֲשָׁב֔וֹת לְבִלְתִּ֛י יִדַּ֥ח מִמֶּ֖נּוּ נִדָּֽח׃
Bo zaiste umierać musimy, a jesteśmy jako woda rozlana po ziemi, której już zebrać nie można; a nie miałżeby sędzia sobie życzyć i obmyślać sposobów, aby nie był nadal wygnany od niego wygnaniec?
Me'or Einayim
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.
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