Editing Spreading the Wellsprings (Hafatzat HaMayanot) (section)

== The Importance of Spreading the Wellsprings of Chassidut ==
Despite spreading the teachings of Chassidut being a very lofty matter, there is no concern about it being publicized and spread even to simple people who might not relate to it properly, because the main thing is that something from this teaching penetrates the heart of one of them.

This matter was explained by the Alter Rebbe when Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz approached him after finding Chassidic writings scattered in the streets, which displeased him. The Alter Rebbe told him that it's preferable for this to happen and explained it through a parable of a king's son who fell gravely ill, and no cure was found until the king's physician discovered a remedy. However, to prepare this remedy, it was necessary to use a precious diamond from the king's crown, grind it up, and put it into his son's mouth—provided that just one drop enters his mouth, he would be saved. Just as the king is willing to give up the diamond and have it ground and crushed as long as his son recovers, so too the Holy One, Blessed be He, is willing to give up the secrets that until then were preserved only for tzaddikim, in order to heal the world from the deep darkness into which it entered in the time of the later generations, even though this means that Chassidic writings will be scattered in the streets.

In this way, the Alter Rebbe effectively nullified a prosecution that had already existed in the time of the Maggid.