Class Two. The Rebbe develops the word idea further. He argues that words come from the essence but they are enlightened and given life from the ‘Midos’ (attributes, Sfiros). This means that the world which is created from His essence [this, the lowest world] has light by passing through the higher ones. In Galus, however, this is not so. There is no light, but there is still a world, created by words (letters) alone, that relate directly to His Essence. In Avoda this is the idea of Emuna that we have always and that puts us in touch with His very Essence.
