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In the holy Zohar,10 therefore, [Chochmah] is referred to as “the dot in the palace.

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This means: The formation of the letters of speech which proceed from the five organs of articulation 15 is not an intellectual process. The letters do not emanate from the soul as a result of any intellectual imperative.

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Until this point the Alter Rebbe has explained the Talmudic teaching that the World to Come was created by the letter yud: the Sefirah of Chochmah, which this letter represents, is the spiritual source of Gan Eden which is in the World to Come.

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From there issues the breath, the original manifestation of the “body” of the letters of speech which become revealed from the concealment of the yud through the five organs of speech.

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This lowly world, however, with the life-force that is found within it, is too small to contain and endure the light and life-force that proceed from the “form” and “inwardness” of the letters;