The best thing that you can do is to have a certain kind of imaginal empathy. When you read about Reb Zushya or Reb Shneur Zalman and the encounters that they had and where they lived, exercise your imagination, and try to see them as if you were watching a movie. Out of that will come a closer connection.
— Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Wrapped in A Holy Flame