The Torah speaks in the language of man. Because of this, when the Torah says that God speaks – it means that their is a resemblance between His speech and ours.
Though with God’s speech, His words are as attached to Him as our thoughts are to us. When we speak, our words leave us and have no apparent connection to the words we say. But for God – His speech is as much a part of Him as we would imagine our thoughts to us.
Nevertheless, there is still a resemblance in God’s speech to ours. To a certain degree, God’s words do leave Him. But this is really only from our point of view. God contracts Himself in a way that existence becomes darker and darker. In this way, it looks like God has separated Himself from creation – though of course He is still as attached as He always was. It is only from our point of view that we think we see a separation between God and creation.
So great are His contractions, that God even contracts Himself into the evil of the world where we think He is no longer present. Evil thinks of itself as having its own existence (even though practically, it knows that God is still the ultimate power even over itself.)
God gives to the evil of creation, but it is in a way like one would give something to an enemy – over one’s shoulder. This is how the evil exists. Even though it has God’s power inside it giving it life, the evil holds the Divine presence in a state of exile within it, making out as though God does not exist. But still, God continues to give to evil because it fulfills a particular role in the world.
