Likutei Moharan, Part II 78:3/ליקוטי מוהר"ן·תנינא ע״ח:ג׳

13. But know! during the time the true tzaddik is an ordinary person, he draws life from the road which leads to the Land of Israel. For know! all these ordinary people—i.e., the scholar while he is absent from Torah, at which time he is an ordinary person; likewise a genuinely ordinary person who, although not a scholar, is a religious and God-fearing person and certainly receives life-force from the Torah; and likewise even those of lower station, and even the nations of the world, as they, too, certainly receive life-force from the Torah—all these ordinary people must have an extraordinarily ordinary individual over them, so that they might all receive life-force through him. This is because all the aforementioned ordinary people have to receive some life-force from the Torah, which is the essence of life. However, in reality, they are far from the Torah, for they are ordinary people (called prustakes). Therefore, they need an extraordinary ordinary individual over them, through whom they all receive life-force from the Torah.