In this chapter, the Alter Rebbe goes on to say that since, after all, the Torah does use the term “speech” with regard to Divine revelation, we must say that Divine speech contains, to some extent at least, the second characteristic of human speech as well (i.e., that it becomes separated from the speaker). He explains that this is in fact so but only with respect to the beings created by Divine “speech”—they perceive G-d’s Word that created them, and consequently also themselves, as being separate from G-d. This is specifically the case with the kelipot and the sitra achara, which represent a denial of G-d’s unity