Chasidut על ישעיהו 1:12

How great is the fear as well as the desire, when the hasid sees his rebbe’s city while yet afar—and all the more so when he is in the rebbe’s chambers. In Maor vaShemesh Parshat Devarim, it says that when the hasid comes to the house and his rebbe’s chambers, he would be in such a state of fear and terror that he would no longer know where he was. And in Parshat Ki Tisa it says, that through this fear of the hasid to approach the rebbe, to ‘trample upon his courtyard,’⁴⁸¹Isaiah 1:12. he would come to fear of God’s greatness, for he would think, “Why am I so fearful of this tzaddik? It is from nothing other than the holiness of God’s existence, Who is here with the tzaddik, dwelling with and connected with him.” Through this, he arrives at such fear.