See Ramchal’s Iggerot Pitchei Chochma v’Da’at (7) and Klallei Ma’amar HaChochma (13) for more on the esoteric side of letters and their relationship to the various Divine names.
Ramchal ends this section with the assertion in Petach 23 that the (Divine) names … enable the Lights to bring about actions in the physical world; and he then adds the idea that the Torah encompasses all those names that went into actualizing things in this world, which is why it’s referred to as God’s “tool” for creation [1].
We’ll next see what Ramchal says about the Torah in general in other writings.
Note:
[1] See the beginning of Breishit Rabbah.
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