The Doer...

"The Besht [Baal Shem Tov] taught that a man should believe with perfect faith that his deeds, words, and every movement of his, everything is God Himself.

For it is He who controls man and limits His divine presence in him.

Realizing this, a man will not seek any kind of reward for his deeds since it is God Himself who is the doer, not the man."


The Baal Shem Tov
in Alan Unterman
_The Wisdom of the Jewish Mystics_
NY: New Directions, 1976, p. 48