Jewish Spiritual Growth: A Step-by-Step Guide by a Hasidic Master

only serve God simply. Then the passionate intensity will come to you of itself.

that too should be a source of pleasure to you: that you are able to do God’s will like an ox to the yoke and a donkey to the burden. And when you derive pleasure from that, you will taste it, with God’s help.”

when you are aflame you cannot contain this emotion, you cannot pray coldly even if you would want to.

Our soul is hidden not only from others, revealing itself only through its actions, but from us as well.

emotions are different. When we feel desire, love or fear, that emotion is not a means to attain an end or to act upon the world outside ourselves.

when we dance vigorously and pray loudly and vigorously, then we will arouse our emotions.

Through these five senses, we apprehend the world. Once we know about the world, we can act and speak in order to get what we need and want.

we may know that the soul, which sees yet is not seen, is revealed through its actions.

The greater our emotion and feeling, the more our abilities and senses fall away. And if this emotion grows until it rises as it burns like fiery, flaming coals, then our entire being falls away. And that is called hitlahavut: fiery passion.