Editing Milsa D'Bedichusa (section)

== Benefit in Divine Service ==
When the Alter Rebbe lists in Tanya the physical actions that rise to holiness when done for the sake of divine service, he gives as an example a person who says milsa d'bedichusa for divine service to open his heart, like Rava who would do this before studying and would then study with fear.

The Baal Shem Tov explains that the benefit of milsa d'bedichusa is that when a person has mochin d'katnut (constricted consciousness), he cannot serve Hashem. By saying milsa d'bedichusa, even in worldly matters, one enters a state of expansion and liberation from the constraints of the soul, and thus can serve Hashem in a state of expansiveness.

In one place, the Mitteler Rebbe explains that not only is milsa d'bedichusa a good thing in holiness, but there is an even higher level of "the king's jesters" which is essential delight within the King Himself, and is the root of all holiness. This is a level even higher than "love with delights," and stands in contrast to mockery in impurity, which is the root of all kelipot and all sins.