Damoshe has a good point. There is a mitzvah to connect to talmidai chachimim. The rambam writes to eat and drink with them do business with them marry into their family etc. The reason is to learn from their ways.
Chassidus takes this further that thru connecting to a talmidai chacham (which chassidus explains he is a talmid – student – of chacha diatzilus, – which there shines אא”ס) the student – chassid can receive from the tzadik his lofty spiritual levels יחודא עילאה. Which a neshama of בי”ע can not reach on their own. See Torah or parshas yisro, Tanya perek 2, perek 35, היכל הבעל שם טוב vol ?
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