Man’s task (avoda) according to Chassidus: To accustom himself to perceive individual Divine Providence (hashgacha p’ratit), how G‑d, in His goodness, renews the universe and all creatures every moment with His particular Divine Providence, which constitutes – to the exclusion of all else – the reality, life-force and sustained existence of all creatures.

~ HaYom Yom, Sivan 29

Aligned just so,

two solitary planets

are wrenched from their orbits.

They thud,

debris exploding

into space’s thick, silent vacuum.

Pockmarked with craters,

and dormant volcanoes,

they now share the same orbit.

Far below

huddled under starlight,

two lonely people share a telescope,

aligned just so.