T52 (Tinyana) PNC - Why Kushyos Are Difficult on the Tzaddikim

That kushyos are difficult on the tzaddikim is not by accident — it must be so. The tzaddikim resemble their Creator, as is taught. Just as kushyos are difficult on Hashem yisborach, so it is necessarily difficult to ask kushyos on the tzaddik — because he resembles Him.

About kushyos on Hashem yisborach, the Rebbe used to say: on the contrary, this is precisely how it should be — that kushyos remain on Hashem; this is fitting and beautiful for Him according to His greatness and exaltedness. From the very essence of His greatness — that He is exalted high above our daas — it is impossible to grasp His conduct with our intellect. Therefore there must be kushyos on Him; this is fitting and beautiful for the Borei: that He be exalted and elevated above our daas, through which the kushyos are difficult. Were His conduct entirely accessible to the obligations of our daas, then chas ve-shalom His daas would be like our daas.