Likutei Moharan, Part II 67:8/ליקוטי מוהר"ן·תנינא ס״ז:ח׳

18. For know! all the generations derive from the tzaddik who is the head, the concept of rosh bayit, the world’s master-of-the-house, as in “Who proclaims the generations from the rosh (start)” (Isaiah 41:4)—for all the generations derive from the rosh, i.e., the aforementioned tzaddik.

2And so, when there is such a tzaddik who is the rosh bayit, there is the concept rosh and also the concept bayit. And then all of us—i.e., everyone in the generation—are the concept of members-of-the-house. But when this rosh, who is the splendor/God’s Name, is removed and concealed, then the names of impurity of the external forces become overpowering, God forbid. This is the concept of false leaders, as mentioned above.

3{“Oh how the gold has become dull. The finest gold has been defaced. The hallowed stones have been strewn about at the head of every chutzot (street). The precious children of Zion, once valued as gold, alas, they are accounted as earthen jugs, the work of a potter’s hands” (Lamentations 4:1-2) . They are also the concept of the rosh of the Other Side, which is the antithesis of the aforementioned rosh of holiness, the concept of “the head of every ChuTZot,” which is the rosh of the Other Side/false leaders/the name of impurity of the ChiTZonim (outside forces), God forbid. And then there is no house, and people stray about ChuTZot, God forbid. Thus it is called “the rosh of every chutzot,” because, God forbid, the rosh bayit has vanished, and so there is no house and people stray about outside, God forbid.

4Concerning this it is said: “Hallowed stones have been strewn about at the head of every street. The precious children of Zion, once valued as gold….” In other words, the holy people Israel stray about, God forbid, “at the head of every chutzot,” because the rosh bayit—i.e., the true tzaddik—has been removed and concealed. And [his] opposite, who is the concept of the impure name of the ChiTZonim, and “the rosh of every ChuTZot,” has become powerful, God forbid.

5Thus the prophet Yirmiyahu would lament and cherish the Jewish blood which had been spilled, and he would share in their suffering. He saw the Jewish people being led in chains, their hands bound behind them and the millstone around their necks, and joined them. And for every drop of Jewish blood he lamented: “The precious children of Zion, once valued as gold…. Hallowed stones have been strewn about….”

6This is also: “These are the offspring of Noach”—as if lamenting the offspring who remain, as mentioned above. And this is: “Noach, a tzaddik, he was perfect”—i.e., he was, but passed away…, as mentioned above.

7Now see, all the generations derive from the tzaddik who is the rosh, the concept of “proclaims the generations from the rosh,” as mentioned above. And this is the concept of “These are the offspring of Noach”—all the offspring, i.e., the generations, derive from Noach, who is the tzaddik, the concept rosh, as in “proclaims the generations from the rosh,” as mentioned above.