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Victory of Singing and Holy Words The main power of the Malchus (-kingdom) of holiness, which is the aspect of the Malchus (-kingdom) of Messiah, is through speech – 'Malchus peh' (-the Zohar says that the attribute of Malchus – kingdom – is manifested in the 'peh' – mouth, spoken words), because the king rules his entire kingdom just by means of speech, and the entire victory of the Malchus of holiness, which is the Malchus of Messiah, is through speech. And this is the aspect of the whole Book of Psalms which was constituted by King David r.i.p., who is the root of the Malchus of Messiah, and he fought the battles of Hashem all his life, physically and spiritually, and he won all of them through the speech of mouth, that is, through copious prayers, and entreaties, and songs, and praises without measure, until he included them all, with his Divine Inspiration (-ruach hakodesh) in the holy Book of Psalms, and therefore he truly merited to eternal Malchus, which is the Malchus of Messiah. And therefore the majority of the chapters (-mizmorim – of the word 'zemmehr'- song) of Psalms begin with “Lamnatzayach”, which Rashi explains (Psalm 4:1) that he composed a Psalm (-mizmor) for the Leviites to say (- in the Temple that was to be built), for they are 'menatzchim' (-performing, prevailing, victorious) with song etc.. And likewise, his explanation also applies plainly to everyone of Israel, like a warning, saying to anyone who desires to enter to fight the battle of Hashem, which every person must do, because he was created just for this, and he wants to win the battle completely, he should say this (-such and such) Psalm, or this Psalm with a full mouth (-saying the words out loud), and understand this well.

And this is the same case regarding hisbodidus, which is also an aspect of reciting Psalms, as is explained elsewhere (Likutay Moharan, Torah 156), because by means of the holy words he will certainly be victorious. Also, David said “Lamnatzayach” (-to prevail, be victorious) on himself, to uplift and encourage himself saying, “Lamnatzayach mizmor lidovid” - that is, “To David <lidovid>,” who wins <minatzayach> all the battles through his speech, say now this Psalm <mizmor – from the word zemmehr – song>. And so too very person, even in his lowly level, needs to know and believe that certainly he is abundantly victorious with every single word of conversing and hisbodidus etc. that he says, for this is eternal victory which remains forever and ever and for all eternity. And if he will be strong at this, to engage in this until his soul literally departs, be what might, no matter what transpires over him, certainly he will vanquish the battle with His great kindness. And like in a physical battle the essential thing is the strength of heart of the soldiers, that they don't lose their heart, and for this there are many lessons to strengthen the hearts of the army's men going out to wage war, in this very similarity this matter is as well, that it is necessary to strengthen oneself very much at all times, and to know, and believe, and also to remind this to oneself with a full mouth (-out loud), that however he is, speech has enormous power to win all the holy battles, this being the aspect of “Lamnatzayach” that he mentions each time, because it is necessary to strengthen himself abundantly when he desires to engage in prayer, and conversation, and words between himself and his Maker, and to believe that certainly through this he will be victorious if he will be tenacious to engage in this his whole life, as mentioned above. And be what may, even if he doesn't merit to vanquish the battle completely Heaven forbid, even still he already vanquished plenty with the holy words themselves which he spoke and requested from Hashem Yisburach to draw him close to him, because everything that is done for the victory of holiness remains forever, even if he didn't merit Heaven forbid to finish his endeavor completely, because there is no good desire which is lost (Zohar, Shemos 150b), especially words and callings of prayer, which are more precious than everything. (Likutay Halachos, Laws of Blessings on Sitings, law 5).