Editing Seven Voices (section)

==== The Seven Notes in the Musical Scale ====
The author of Mishnat Chassidim connects the verse about the Torah "she hewed her seven pillars" with the science of music: Just as the Torah is built of seven books, so is the science of music built of seven levels of voice. From low to high there are only seven levels, and as one goes up from one to seven, they are sounds different from each other, but when one comes to the eighth level, it is of the same essence and shade as the voice in the first, lowest level.

What emerges from his words is that the seven notes of music are not just a "conventional" matter but '''stem from the laws of nature'''. This means that the seven degrees in the musical scale derive from the seven Sefiros. This concept is explained in Chassidic teaching, that the seven strings of the Temple harp correspond to the seven Sefiros, and so it is in the Zohar Chadash on the verse "she hewed her seven pillars": "The voices are the secret of which it is written 'she hewed her seven pillars' - and these are the seven days of creation."