Tanya for the 9th and 10th of Tammuz, ט׳-י׳ תמוז

These letters are the specifically twenty-two manners of manifestation through which G-d chose to create the world. Accordingly, as the Rebbe notes, the forthcoming chapter underscores the fact that all created beings, in all their vastly differentiated multiplicity, are in fact no more than twenty-two distinct forms of Divine manifestation.