I would like to speak up as someone who was once a Lu and became a Breslover. I was a Talmid of Rav Elozor Kenig zt”l and I am currently following his brother Rav Efraim Kenig. There father ( Rav Gedaliah Kenig) wrote a Sefer on this topic of hiskashrus to Tzaddikim called “Chayei Nefesh”. It is kedai to read because all of these issues are addressed. I want to put out three ideas as food for thought. 1) The relationship between the Tzaddik and Klal Yisroel is symbiotic. The Tzaddik needs the Klal just as much as they need him. 2) The Tzaddik does not have a will of his own. He is entirely nullified to his creator. That being said one still needs to beseech Hashem for what ever they need thus when one asks the Tzaddik to daven for him he must also daven and his prayer with the Tzaddik’s prayer being that they connect to each other becomes Tefillas rabim which Hashem accepts. 3) The Tzaddik does not work for anyone but Hashem. He works with us. These is true of all Tzaddikim before their histalkus and after. These nekudos are explained in Lubavitcher seforim. However, Rav Gedaliah Kenig took the time to explain them at more length than I did and more systematically than in the Lubavitcher sources.
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