12. Ner Chanukah Mishetishka HaChama 5735 (2nd of a Hemshech)

12. Ner Chanukah Mishetishka HaChama 5735 (2nd of a Hemshech).
This Ma’amar is the Avoda follow-up to the last one; it is far longer and detailed.
Here the Rebbe argues the idea of ירידה צורך עלי’ה in the most extreme way: even if the Yerida is connected to (free will and) sin, the fact that it happened means that it is by the Divine Hand, and had to happen this way, because only this will allow for the ascent that follows this severe decent.
He compares it to Avraham’s tenth test of the Akaida, that had to happen the way it did, because nothing else would do; similarly what we in these generations go through is the inly way for the עלי’ה that follows this ירידה to happen.
Transforming the lowest darkness to light.