Malchus is a memutzah / intermediary between atzilus and biya.
A memutzah has to be able to relate to both and he has similarities to both – in malchus these aspects are called yam and aretz.
In every inyan of memutzah the upper aspect that receives from the higher level. This does not get to be transmitted to the lower level. The implication is that the reflection of this is given over to the lower level.
This is like the meturgeman – in time of gemara and chachamim this was a standard way of giving a shiur. The rav gave the shiur and the meturgeman did the “translation”. He received the shefa of the rav atzmo – but that he can do only for himself – ie the shefa of the rav stays with him and is concealed in him and what the meturgeman gives over is not the shefa of the rav. Why not give the shefa itself?
The meturgeman transmits the shefa of the rav as he understands it. Yet he understands the shefa harav so why not transmit it? The meturgeman has 2 levels. One level he understands the rav, but not as his own sechel – as the shefa of the rav. This means that there are things we understand, but not sufficiently to say on our own. They don't become his own – he gets the richness, but does not relate to it. He partially digests it and thinks of it on his own terms. This he transmits to others.
Every sechel has a source. The rav thinks from the source of the sechel. The rav sees the inyanim so when he puts it into words this is already a tzimzum. Because the rav takes it from a much higher level that hashpah cannot become a metziut itself. The meturgeman cannot fully comprehend, but he can receive it.
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