Likutei Moharan 280:1/ליקוטי מוהר"ן ר״פ:א׳

1Know, when a person is compelled to seek a ruling before judges in a court of Torah law, he is being punished—the Torah is taking revenge against him. This is because in truth all business activity is Torah. For example, the law “someone who barters a cow for a donkey” is Torah, and it is certainly all the more so Torah when one actually performs the act itself, {as is related in the name of the Baal Shem Tov, of blessed memory}. Therefore, when a person engages in business, he must bind his thoughts only to the Torah and the laws embodied there.

2But someone who severs his business activities from the Torah and descends into the give-and-take of business itself, not binding his thoughts to the Torah embodied there—his punishment is that he is afterwards compelled to seek a ruling in a court of Torah law. Then, he must bring to the Torah all the issues and all the thoughts and all the deals he engaged in while doing business, from beginning to end. That is, he must relate everything to the judges, and they issue a Torah ruling on it. Thus it is that all [his] business issues are restored as Torah.

3This is his punishment; the Torah takes revenge against him for having severed the laws embodied in business activity from the Torah and descending into the give-and-take itself, as though there were no Torah in the business activities. His punishment, therefore, is that he must bring his case to a court of Torah law and present all the issues of the business activities and turn them into Torah. And then they show him that all business activity is Torah, for now everything has been turned into Torah, as explained above. And he certainly must bring all the issues, even all the thoughts, before the judges. For if some issue or some thought is missing, it would distort the Torah ruling. Hence, it is vital that he bring before the judges everything that transpired while doing business, for them to turn it into a Torah ruling.

4Thus it is that the business activity is restored and becomes Torah. And they show him that it is not as he originally presumed: that there is no Torah in the give-and-take of business—“For can you not see with your own eyes that all business issues are Torah, now that everything has been turned into a Torah ruling?” as explained above.

5And all this is commensurate with the blemish. There is one whose punishment is only that he must seek a ruling, yet the ruling is in his favor; it is only that they show him that he blemished, as explained above. However, there is one who severed the business activity from the Torah even further. In that case, his punishment is greater in that even the ruling is not in his favor. For in truth, when engaging in business activity, only his external thought should be on the give-and-take of business; his inner thought, however, must be bound to the Torah, as explained above.