The Sky is Bowing… Are You?

Ever wonder why the sun always sets in the west? It's an amazing thing. Every single day the sun goes up and it goes down and sets in the west. And think about the stars, the moon for that matter, right? They're always traveling towards the west. Why is that? Says the Baal HaTanya, an amazing insight. You know why the heavenly bodies are moving towards the west? Because the west represents the Shechinah. It represents where the divine presence dwells in the west. And in a great show of self-nullification and servitude, in submission to their creator, to its source, that's what the heavenly bodies do. And we are the stargazers. We are the ones who are meant to look up at the stars, at the moon, at the sun, and be reminded of our own calling, our own mission. Where does our service lie? Where does our loyalty lie? Are we in submission? Are we self-nullifying ourselves to our source, to our maker, to our creator, like the heavenly bodies? We're meant to look up, look around the world, and see what they're doing, see what these great celestial bodies are doing. They're setting, they go towards the west, and that's our job and our calling to go towards the west, to submit ourselves to the divine and become the best people that we can.