Kabbalah Kidung Agung 5:6: Zohar & Tikkunei Zohar

GIVE EAR, YE HEAVENS, AND I WILL SPEAK, ETC. R. Judah cited here the verse: “I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself and was gone”, etc. (S.S. 5, 6). ‘And just before this it is written, “I was asleep but my heart waked” (Ibid. 2). Said the Community of Israel: I was asleep to the precepts of the Law when I went in the wilderness, but my heart was awake to enter the land so as to perform them, since they all are meant for the land. “It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh”: this is Moses, who administered many reproofs answer Amen departs from this world, his soul ascends and they proclaim before him: Open the gates before him¹v. T. B. Shabbath, 119b. as he opened gates every day by being careful to answer Amen. But if one hears a blessing from the reader and is not careful to answer Amen, what is his punishment? As he did not open blessings below, so they do not open for him above, and when he leaves this world they proclaim before him: Close the gates in the face of So-and-so that he enter not, and do not receive him woe to him and to his soul!

She “seeks him but finds him not”, for it is not his way to unite with her save in his temple. She “calls him and he answers not”, for She dwells among other peoples, and only his sons hear his voice.

On the eve of Shabbat, it is said (Song of Songs 5:5) "I rose to let in my beloved" - on Shabbat! And when Shabbat departs, it is said (Song of Songs 5:6) "My beloved turned and was gone..." At that time, "... I sought, but found him not; I called, but he did not answer." Until I swear that the next time He comes, I will clutch his hand and not let it go, as it says (Song of Songs 3:4) "I held him fast, I would not let him go, until I brought him to my mother's house, to the chamber of she who conceived me" - that is, the third temple.