It should be clear to a person that all created things in this world, whether substance or accident, have definite limits. Nothing can add to or detract from what the Creator may He be exalted decreed in regard to its quantity, quality, time, or place. No one can increase what He decreed to be few or diminish what He decreed to be many. No one can postpone what He decreed to move forward or advance what He decreed to delay, And whatever runs contrary to this was so decreed in foreknowledge from the very first it is just that all such decrees have natural causes and these causes have causes which preceded them.
Once, on a Motzoei Shabbos, the chasidim were sitting in the bais medrash of the Ruzhiner Rebbe zy”a for Melave Malka. Suddenly, the Rebbe opened the door of his room next to the bais medrash, stood at the entrance, and said, “The Baal Shem Tov was not a deity, and the zaida, the Magid, was not just an ordinary wagon driver. And once, when the holy Baal Shem Tov prayed, his talis fringe fell out of his gartel and dragged on the floor. The Magid approached, picked it up, and put it back in the gartel, but he was trembled with such tremendous fear that he fainted and his life was in danger. They were compelled to rouse the Baal Shem Tov from his deep dveikus in order to calm him.” He then added, “I told you that the Baal Shem Tov was not a deity and my zaida, the Magid, was no wagon driver. Still and all, when he touched the Besht’s garment, he fainted from fear. The entire world is Hashem’s garment. How much fear must we feel to touch this world!” May the memory of the...