QUESTION:
How can we know if someone is a tzaddik? Are there are any guidelines of the Torah about this? Are there any exact definitions given? We all know that the prince of Torah, Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlit”a is holy of holies and the Baba Sali zt”l was a holy and great tzaddik, but how do we know in the first place that we can rely on the tzaddikim? Are there certain levels that a person has to reach in order to be above and revered by the nation?
ANSWER:
There are many levels, and there are also many different types, of tzaddikim. But generally, a tzaddik is someone who is greatly davuk (connected) in Hashem and to the Torah, and he is connected to his shoresh neshamah, and he has purified his physical desires, his deeds, and his middos.
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