Chasidut sur Joël 3:3

Here is the rub: even the avreikhim, the one in a thousand saved from ‘blood, fire, and clouds of smoke’⁵⁷⁹Joel 3:3. and by God’s great wonders, prepared to become illuminations of fire, even illuminating for the other’s in the darkness of the underworld—even they do not strengthen themselves to arrive at the pinnacle which God the savior has appointed for them, to reveal the heavenly altar’s coals which [burn] inside them. They suffice with superficiality and easy avodah. Even if in straightforward learning there may still be found individuals who strengthen themselves to study in depth, when it comes to hasidic matters and avodah there are almost none who strive with force and strengthen of mind. If, in the course of their superficial study in the hasidic books, they encounter something deeper or a bit of Kabbalah, they skip it, passing it by without comprehension. They are blessed [with the ability to] arrive at the depth of Torah and hasidic avodah and their heights, but since they do not try to strengthen and exert themselves, how will they know what Torah is, and how will they taste the flavor of hasidism?