Chasidut zu Schemot 30:23

The Besht thus initiated a new ‘drawing forth,’ of the beginning of a new rectification and revelation, and thus a new path of avodah. For if all is light and holiness, how can we distance ourselves from anything which God has created for us? Do we not thereby distance a piece and spark of holy light? We need merely to remove the evil from it and then the good in it will be revealed, and with it we will serve God. The Besht forbade fasting not only for the [author of the] Toldot, since he was a holy individual, but rather he [forbade fasting] for all. Such is the path of hasidism. As it says in the Noam Elimelekh, Parshat [Ki] Tisa, s.v. veAtah Kakh :”⁵²⁹Exodus 30:23. “One should not say that, since it is forbidden for one to derive benefit from this world and from his desires unless it is all for His sake, which is a very difficult, nay impossible, thing to maintain, that he should therefore separate himself from the physical world, not eating nor drinking at all, and becoming totally separated. One should not say as such, but rather should strengthen himself, little by little, to break his desires and turn things over and over, until he arrives at the essential foundation of holiness and its roots in every physical thing.”