כשמתענה אדם אפילו משבת לשבת לא יהי' לו פני' אפי' קטנה שיאמר בלבו שהוא עושה דבר גדול שמענה את א"ע כ"כ הרבה ויזדכך מאד בזה התענית רק יחשוב בלבו מה מעשי נחשבים נגד עבודת המלאכים שעבודתם בתמידות להשי"ת ואני טפה סרוחה וסופי לעפר:
When a person fasts or practices abstention, even from one Shabbat to the next, he should have no self-interest in it whatsoever, even slightly. He should not consider in his heart that he is doing something great by afflicting himself to such a great extent, and that he will become greatly refined through this abstention. (Such a fast is transferred to the side of evil – Sitra Acharah.) Instead, he should think in his heart, “What are my deeds in comparison to the service of the angels, whose service of HaShem, blessed is He, is constant? Whereas, I am nothing more than a putrid drop and my end shall be to dust.”
כשמתענה אדם אפילו משבת לשבת לא יהי' לו פני' אפי' קטנה שיאמר בלבו שהוא עושה דבר גדול שמענה את א"ע כ"כ הרבה ויזדכך מאד בזה התענית רק יחשוב בלבו מה מעשי נחשבים נגד עבודת המלאכים שעבודתם בתמידות להשי"ת ואני טפה סרוחה וסופי לעפר:
When a person fasts or practices abstention, even from one Shabbat to the next, he should have no self-interest in it whatsoever, even slightly. He should not consider in his heart that he is doing something great by afflicting himself to such a great extent, and that he will become greatly refined through this abstention. (Such a fast is transferred to the side of evil – Sitra Acharah.) Instead, he should think in his heart, “What are my deeds in comparison to the service of the angels, whose service of HaShem, blessed is He, is constant? Whereas, I am nothing more than a putrid drop and my end shall be to dust.”