Likutei Moharan 10:11/ליקוטי מוהר"ן י׳:י״א

111. From a manuscript written by Rebbe Nachman relating to this lesson:

2And these are the laws that you must place before them:

3{“Sing to God, for He has done gei’ut (glorious things); this is known in all the earth” (Isaiah 12:5).} “This is known in all the earth,” that gei’ut (haughtiness) is a despicable quality, one from which a person must flee. Yet, there are people who run after honor. They desire to rule and direct everything. They claim to have the “power in their hands” to perform redemptions and pray [effective] prayers. Of such individuals it is said, “return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will live.”

4For this is known: The Holy One {desires the prayers of the tzaddikim. A person must turn to them, so that they will pray for him}. But the haughty people do not turn to the tzaddikim to request that they pray on their behalf. What is more, they also prevent others from going to the tzaddikim to enlist their prayers. For these haughty individuals claim that they, too, are tzaddikim capable of praying, and that there is no one more righteous than they in the world. This has earned them the title “Avimelekh”: AVi connotes “desire,” as in (Deuteronomy 23:6), “But God your Lord did not AVa (desire) to pay heed to Bilaam.”