Proper Outlook on Life and Religious Cognizance: Difference between revisions

# Even the permissible actions such as eating, drinking, walking, sitting, standing, relations, speech, and all of a person’s needs should be done for the service of Hashem or for something that causes a service of Hashem. <ref> S"A 231 </ref>

# A man who is hungry and thirsty and eats and drinks for his benefit isn’t praised, however, one should think that one is eating and drinking according to one’s health in order to serve Hashem. <ref> S"A 231 </ref>

# Similarly, one who sits amongst upright people, stands with Tzaddikim, or follows advice of the pure, if one does so for one’s pleasure and in order to fill one’s desires it’s not praiseworthy, however, one who does for the sake of Heaven is praised. <ref> S"A 231 </ref>

# Similarly, regarding sleep, it’s needless to say that at a time when one could learn or do מצות that a person shouldn’t indulge in sleep for pleasure, but even at a time when one is tired and needs to sleep in order to rest from one’s exhaust, if one does so for pleasure one is not praised, rather one should intend to sleep and proper rest to be healthy so that one’s mind isn’t unsettled and unable to study Torah because of one’s tiredness. <ref> S"A 231 </ref>