Know that from the thoughts and intentions behind a mitzvah as well as the act of the mitzvah itself an angel is created with a body and soul. If one of those ingredients is missing whether action or intention the angle will be lacking as well. Those who wish to give but have none create the soul of the angel--they have the intention and thought but lack the action the actual performance of the mitzvah. And those who do have money and don't wish to give it but still they give out of embarrassment have performed the action though they do not have the proper intention behind it This action creates the body of the angel This is one of the kindnesses of H'shem that they are both called "holy" since between them a full angel is created with a body and soul MiPeninei Noam Elimelech Parsha Vayeitzei
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...
