vayakhel / pekuday

The Posuk says ששת ימים תעשה מלאכה וביום השביעי יהיה לכם קדש six days work may be done and the seventh shall be holy to you. Why did the Torah have to tell us to work on the other six days of the week? Shouldn't it have been enough to just say rest on the seventh day? The אור החיים הקדוש says that it teaches us that the six days of the week will only be successful if you keep the seventh one holy. However, if one doesn't keep the seventh day holy, he will not have success the other six days. Why is שבת the ticket to success? There is another anomaly in this posuk. The word תעשה (tay-use) is passive: work will be done. It seems that the more appropriate term תעשה (taase), you shall do, should be used. Does the work get done by itself? The sefer אפריון explains that a person who doesn't believe that his sustenance comes from 'ה, but rather thinks that it's his own efforts that produce, will have a very hard time restraining from work on the seventh day, thinking that he's losing out. In order to dispel this notion, the Torah says tay-use: it will be done, so that you should know that even in the six days it's not your doing and all the Beracha comes from 'ה. If we internalize that, it will be much easier not to work on the seventh day. There's a story brought from the chafetz chaim who came into the town of Tzirnikuv, and was told that one of the biggest employers in the town made his workers come in on shabbos. The חפץ חיים approached him to try to get him to close on shabbos. He told the חפץ חיים, I make 4000 rubel a day & you're telling me to close one day !? I can't lose that kind of money! The חפץ חיים said to him, is it better to lose 4000 rubels or to lose everything? As the posuk says, work six days & make the seventh holy. If you make the seventh holy you'll have the six days, otherwise you'll have nothing. The man answered him incredulously, are you telling me one posuk in the chumash is going to dictate my fortune?? He refused to close. A short time later the bolshevics came into town leaving death & destruction in their wake, destroying everything this man owned & he himself just barely escaping with his life. Looking back at what happened to him, & remembering the חפץ חיים's words, the man wrote a letter to the חפץ חיים saying now I see that your words are true & one posuk can determine one's fortune. Maybe this is why our successes are based on shabbos. Shabbos is our way of showing 'ה that we believe that we're not in control, & realize that it's all His doing whereas He in turn then gives us success for the other six days of the week showing us that if we trust Him we will not be lacking!