“Six days you shall work… Rabbi Yosi said … and it does not write, ‘On the six’ … the six upper days HGT NH from which all the works of creation emerged each day… Rabbi Yitzhak said… Rabbi Hiya said, ‘Because it is permitted to work in them although they are regarded as Zeir Anpin, the Havdalah [separation] was established.’ He asks, ‘What is separation? Should they have been mingled in one another?’ He replies, ‘Holiness is something in itself, and separation is between secular and holy,’” etc. (The Zohar, Emor, 112).

Baal HaSulam asked why the six workdays that are regarded as Zeir Anpin are secular, and Malchut, which is the final discernment, is holy. He said that Zeir Anpin is called “six days of action” because on each day, they shine a small light on those days, and from them they extend each day. However, Shabbat means that at that time what is found in the six days of action is revealed. It follows that the revelation of Zeir Anpin is on Shabbat, but Shabbat itself has no quality so as to have something to give, since Malchut is called “poor and meager.”

Accordingly, it follows that from Shabbat, which is Malchut, who has nothing, she has nothing to give from herself. For this reason, it is forbidden to work on Shabbat because Malchut has nothing to give from her own quality. Rather, Zeir Anpin, who is HGT NH, each Sefira [sing. of Sefirot] gives of its own quality to… opposite it. For this reason, the six days of action relate only to Zeir Anpin because only Zeir Anpin has what to give each day.

But the revelation of the lights of Zeir Anpin illuminate in Malchut, which is why Shabbat is called “holy,” since then the abundance is disclosed. Conversely, on weekdays, it is necessary to work for the abundance of Zeir Anpin to be revealed in Malchut, who is Shabbat.

“From finding your wish and say a matter.” Rabbi Yosi asked, “What is a lack for Shabbat if he is speaking something?” He told him it is certainly a lack for Shabbat because there is not a single word uttered by a person who has no voice, and it ascends and awakens another word.

And what is it? It is that which is called “secular,” since anything that is not holy is secular, from those weekdays. When secularity awakens in the holy day, it is indeed a lack above, and the Creator and the assembly of Israel asked about it, who is it who wants to separate our coupling, who is it who needs secularity here (The Zohar, Emor, Item 294).