Great Tzaddikim Engaged in Shabbos Preparations

The Gemara teaches us that the great Amoraim invested in Shabbos preparations. Of course, they were davuk in Hashem with a great deveikus all the while.

The tzaddikim of later generations were the same. The Rebbe Reb Elimelech, and others, would come into the kitchen on Erev Shabbos to salt the fish and engage in other preparations. As they did so, they had special kavannos, meditating on the pnimiyus of the great avodah in which they were engaged.