Psalm 1:3 Being connected to the essence of life, Torah

“וְהָיָה כְּעֵץ שָׁתוּל עַל פַּלְגֵי מָיִם אֲשֶׁר פִּרְיוֹ  יִתֵּן בְּעִתּוֹ וְעָלֵהוּ לֹא יִבּוֹל וְכֹל אֲשֶׁר יַעֲשֶׂה יַצְלִיחַ”

“He shall be as a tree planted beside rivulets of water, which brings forth its fruit in its season, and its leaves do not wilt; and whatever he does prosper.”

Happiness and success are promised to the person whom is attached to the source of the world, to the Torah.
The allegory, is of a tree that is connected to the the source of it’s essentially, planted beside of the water.

Look at King David himself. Long periods of his life he was ‘detached’, despised by his brothers as a kid,  oppressed by King Saul, his wife Michal was given away to Palti son of Laish, he was forced to live in a foreign-enemy country of Plishtim, even after he turned a king, his own son, Absalom rebelled against him and he had to run away from his own palace.
Regardless to all that, King David was never a detached person! he always had this firm spiritual ground that stabilized him.
This spiritual solid ground of the Torah, in which he desires, provides a person a base that will always hold.
The German poet, Heinrich Heine called the Torah “The portable homeland of the Jew”. It is a safe ground one can always relay on.

What is “..and its leaves do not wilt..” ?
Being connected, doesn’t gets only the branches and fruits of a person to  be connected to the Torah. Alas, even the leaves are connected – every simple, even not spiritual deed and talk of this person are connected to holiness.  Being connected by one’s essence, makes every part of him meaningful. Look at the great Jewish sages, you can learn G-d’s will just from looking at their day to day behavior.