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.