Likutei Moharan, Part II 40:2/ליקוטי מוהר"ן·תנינא מ׳:ב׳

12. Moreover, whoever can see this pride which God takes in His people Israel receives the concept of grandeur and intellects from the pride which he sees. They become the concept of tefilin also for him, entering within and bursting out through the eyes, as mentioned above. And then his eyes, too, become the concept of the eyes of God. Then, wherever he gazes and sees, that place too becomes the concept of “the air of the Land of Israel makes wise,” because the holiness of the Land of Israel is essentially only from the aforementioned concept of eyes.

2But who is it that can see God, who is capable of seeing the Blessed One’s pride?! Still, whoever sees the true tzaddik, that he brings people closer, to serve God, and that he is Israel’s primary closeness to their Father in heaven, and so is himself the pride which God takes in His people, since he is the cause of all the closeness and pride—

3Whoever looks at him then—especially at the time of the kibbutz (gathering), when the people who come to hear the word of God gather around him; and all the more so on Rosh HaShanah, which is the time of the great kibbutz, and the coming together of so many people who desire closeness to God causes the pride to be extremely great—then [sees] the tzaddik’s grandeur and beauty grow and expand, since he himself is the pride, as mentioned above.

4Whoever honestly looks then at this true tzaddik also receives from this pride, and, as mentioned above, the concept of tefilin -intellects are made also for him. Thus his eyes, too, are the concept of the eyes of God, so that wherever he looks becomes the Land of Israel, the concept of “the air of the Land of Israel makes wise.” By looking with his eyes, which are made from the pride, as mentioned above, he instills wisdom into the air.

5{“Your eyes will behold a king in his beauty; [your eyes] will see a faraway land” (Isaiah 33:17) .} This is the explanation of “Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty.” That is, when you merit seeing “the king in his beauty”—i.e., the tzaddik in his beauty and glory, at the time of the kibbutz , which is his beauty and glory—as a result, “[your eyes] will see a faraway land.” This refers to the Land of Israel, the concept of “the air of the Land of Israel makes wise.” For wisdom is called “faraway,” as it is written (Ecclesiastes 7:23), “I thought I would be wise, but it is far away.” In other words, as a result of seeing the tzaddik in his beauty and glory, wherever your eyes look becomes the concept of “the air of the Land of Israel makes wise.” And this is “[your eyes] will see a faraway land.”