Likutei Moharan 31:2/ליקוטי מוהר"ן ל״א:ב׳

12. Now, [it is necessary to explain] what is missing from the blessings. For there should have been seven blessings and twelve blessings, but according to the Talmudic passage, between the giver and the consoler there are only seventeen blessings.

2Know! the primary perfection of the galgalim, the perfection of charity, is only on Shabbat. This is the meaning of: Sun on Shabbat is charity to the poor (Taanit 8b). In other words, the charity only has a perfected light through Shabbat; as a result of Shabbat, it illuminates like the sun, as in (Malachi 3:20), “sun of charity.”

3Thus, the Tanna juxtaposes “the [laws of] carrying an object on Shabbat are two which are four” with “the pauper put his hand” (Shabbat 2a). This is because the greatest shining of charity’s light and its perfection takes place only on Shabbat. For the essence of charity is faith, as in (Genesis 15:6), “He had faith in God [and He counted it as charity].” Shabbat is faith—he has faith in the renewal of the world and in His oneness.

4And faith is the source of the blessings. This is as in (Proverbs 28:20), “A man of faith, many are [his] blessings,” and as in (Genesis 2:3), “God blessed the seventh day.” But the blessings are only complete when he receives it from the source of blessings. Because of this, it is written that there are only six blessings and eleven: to show that they lack perfection.

5This is as our Sages taught: King David came and based it on eleven, Yeshayahu came and based it on six, Chabakkuk came and based it on faith (Makkot 24a). This is to show that perfection of knowledge, which is the Torah, and the perfection of galgalim, is only through faith.

6In addition, that which we find that the direction in which the galgalim move is primarily from west to east but the diurnal band restrains them from east to west, this is also found in connection with charity. East corresponds to the one giving charity, as in (Isaiah 43:5), “From the east I will bring your seed,” and (Hoshea 10:12), “Sow seeds for yourselves for charity.” And west is the one gathering the charity, the pauper, as in (Isaiah, ibid.), “and from the west I will gather you in.”

7And this is the meaning of: More than what the master of the house does for the pauper, the pauper does for the master of the house (Ruth Rabbah 5:9). This is because the primary movement is from west to east. That is, the essence of “doing” is that which the pauper does for the master of the house.