Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Shabbat 19:2

רבא בר רב הונא רמי פוזמקי ומצלי אמר הכון לקראת וגו' רבא שדי גלימיה ופכר ידיה ומצלי אמר כעבדא קמיה מריה אמר רב אשי חזינא ליה לרב כהנא כי איכא צערא בעלמא שדי גלימיה ופכר ידיה ומצלי אמר כעבדא קמי מריה כי איכא שלמא לביש ומתכסי ומתעטף ומצלי אמר הכון לקראת אלהיך ישראל

and will not come to transgress; but as for the evening service, since there is time for it all night, he is not afraid, and may come to transgress. R. Shesheth demurred: Is it any trouble to remove the girdle!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely you cannot maintain that by that slight act he has commenced his meal. ');"><sup>4</sup></span> moreover, let him stand thus [ungirdled] and pray? &amp;mdash Because it is said, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Amos IV, 12. When it is customary to wear a girdle, it is not fitting to pray without one. ');"><sup>5</sup></span>

Mesilat Yesharim

However, this fear must first grow strong in one's heart and afterwards its effects will also manifest in the limbs of the body, namely, a bowed head and prostration, lowering of the eyes and clasping of the hands, as a lowly slave before a great king. Likewise, they said in the Gemara "Rava clasped his hands and prayed, saying, 'I am like a slave before his Master'" (Shabbat 10a).
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Mesilat Yesharim

They further said (Shabbat 10a): "Rava would don a cloak and pray, saying: 'prepare to meet your G-d, O Israel' (Amos 4:12)".
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