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The main binding to Hashem is through music In Likutay Moharan, volume 1, torah 237, it is explained: The essential conjugation of two thing that are like two opposites, is through melody. And this is the aspect of what Leah said when Levi, who is the aspect of the realm of melody, was born (Genesis 29:34), “This time my husband will accompany me.” And this is the secret (behind) what music is played on musical instruments for a wedding, see there. And therefore the main connection and divaikus (binding) to Hashem Yisburach, who is extremely lofty and exalted from this very inferior, coarse, and lowly world, even for someone who sinned and became very estranged from his Father in Heaven, is just through the Book of Psalms which was constituted by King David r.i.p., of which our Rabbis o.b.m. said (Buva Basra 14a) that it is replete with all the ten types of melody. And so it can be seen empirically, that even a person who is extremely alienated from Hashem Yisburach, and is stuck in a very low level, usually, by singing (/playing) a melody for the sake of Heaven, one will be aroused to Hashem Yisburach, and will remind himself where he is in the world, because the main connection of two seemingly opposite things is through melody as mentioned above. Thus, through the recital of Psalms, which is a composite of all the ten types of melody, certainly one is able to bind and connect to Hashem Yisburach from any place he may be, as mentioned above. And this is also the aspect of pihsukay dizimra ('verses of song' – the second section of the morning prayers which consists of Psalms and similar Scripture) which are the aspect of melody, which are said before Kreyas Shema (the reading of the Shema – Hear Oh Israel) and the prayer (-18 benedictions), because through this he can bind himself to Hashem Yisburach at the time of Kreyas Shema and the prayer, for the primary divaikus (binding) is then, as is known (see Likutay Moharan, vol. 2, torah 84). (Likutay Halachos, Laws of Nisseyas Kapahyim – Blessing of the Kohanim-priests, law 5).