{"id":12459,"date":"2025-12-16T21:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12459"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:00:22","slug":"six-days-you-shall-work","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/six-days-you-shall-work\/","title":{"rendered":"406. Six Days You Shall Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cSix days you shall work\u2026 Rabbi Yosi said \u2026 and it does not write, \u2018On the six\u2019 \u2026 the six upper days&nbsp;<em>HGT<\/em>&nbsp;<em>NH<\/em>&nbsp;from which all the works of creation emerged each day\u2026 Rabbi Yitzhak said\u2026 Rabbi Hiya said, \u2018Because it is permitted to work in them although they are regarded as&nbsp;<em>Zeir Anpin<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>Havdalah<\/em>&nbsp;[separation] was established.\u2019 He asks, \u2018What is separation? Should they have been mingled in one another?\u2019 He replies, \u2018Holiness is something in itself, and separation is between secular and holy,\u2019\u201d etc. (<em>The Zohar<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Emor<\/em>, 112).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baal HaSulam asked why the six workdays that are regarded as&nbsp;<em>Zeir Anpin<\/em>&nbsp;are secular, and&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, which is the final discernment, is holy. He said that&nbsp;<em>Zeir Anpin<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201csix days of action\u201d 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&nbsp;<em>Zeir Anpin<\/em>&nbsp;is on Shabbat, but Shabbat itself has no quality so as to have something to give, since&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201cpoor and meager.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, it follows that from Shabbat, which is&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, who has nothing, she has nothing to give from herself. For this reason, it is forbidden to work on Shabbat because&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;has nothing to give from her own quality. Rather,&nbsp;<em>Zeir Anpin<\/em>, who is&nbsp;<em>HGT<\/em>&nbsp;<em>NH<\/em>, each&nbsp;<em>Sefira<\/em>&nbsp;[sing. of&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>] gives of its own quality to\u2026 opposite it. For this reason, the six days of action relate only to&nbsp;<em>Zeir Anpin<\/em>&nbsp;because only&nbsp;<em>Zeir Anpin<\/em>&nbsp;has what to give each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the revelation of the lights of&nbsp;<em>Zeir Anpin<\/em>&nbsp;illuminate in&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, which is why Shabbat is called \u201choly,\u201d since then the abundance is disclosed. Conversely, on weekdays, it is necessary to work for the abundance of&nbsp;<em>Zeir Anpin<\/em>&nbsp;to be revealed in&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, who is Shabbat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom finding your wish and say a matter.\u201d Rabbi Yosi asked, \u201cWhat is a lack for Shabbat if he is speaking something?\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what is it? It is that which is called \u201csecular,\u201d 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 (<em>The Zohar<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Emor<\/em>, Item 294).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSix days you shall work\u2026 Rabbi Yosi said \u2026 and it does not write, \u2018On the six\u2019 \u2026 the six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6246,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[26],"class_list":["post-12459","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-rabash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | 406. 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