Yedl – “when someone has a warm fuzzy feeling, is he doing the Mitzvas Aseh of Ahavas Hashem?”
Yes, actually, on a basic level. (???? ????? vs. ???? ??? etc. There is actually a lot of profound “Reid” in the ????? ??????? on the supposedly “fuzzy feeling” stuff.) How is anyone ???? children (little or big or sometimes even adults…) to Ahavas Hashem, Ahavas HaTorah, Ahavas HaMitzvos? With warm fuzzy emotion that doesn’t involve big Hasagos. Obviously there is much room to grow further over the course of a lifetime.
The Baal Shem Tov taught 60 great Talmidim, most of whom were already great Geonim and Lamdanim before they met the Baal Shem Tov, and many were already or went on to become Rabbonim and Poskim. The Baal Shem Tov had what to teach them just as much (and more) as he had what to teach Poshute Yidden. The trope that Chassidus is only about “feelings” and not Torah ??? is ?????? ?????. There is a very important Inyan not to NEGLECT “feelings”, not to REJECT “Poshute Yidden”, not to be ???? any aspect of ???? ???? ?????? OTHER than “only” Lomdus, but none of this is a ????? to ????? ????? or the centrality of Torah in the life of a Yid.