You ask how you can be connected with me when I do not know you personally... The true bond is created by Torah learning. When you study my teachings, read my talks and associate with those dear to me -- the chassidic community and the yeshivah students -- in their studies and farbrengens (gatherings), and you fulfill my request regarding reciting tehillim and observing Torah-study times -- in this is the bond.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch (quoted in Hayom Yom for Sivan 24)