L’Ecclésiaste 1:6 Cabale : Zohar

Observe that although the sun illumines all quarters of the world, yet he travels only in two directions, as we read: “He goeth toward the South, and turneth about unto the North” (Eccles. 1, 6), one being the right and the other the left. Every day, too, he emerges from the East, turns to the South, then to the North, then toward the Western side, and finally is gathered unto the West. As the sun emerges from the East, so Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and as the sun turns toward the West, so Jacob went toward Haran.’

R. Isaac discoursed on the verse: The sun shineth forth and the sun cometh in and hasteth to his place where he ariseth (Eccl. 1, 5). ‘“The sun shineth forth” from the supernal place where he is established, in order to cast his lustre on the moon, which only reflects the light of the sun; “and cometh in” in order to join the moon. “He goeth toward the South” (Ibid. 1, 6), which is on the right and in which, therefore, his strength reposes (for all the strength of the body is on the right side); “and then turneth about to the North” (Ibid.), in order to impart light both to the one side and to the other. Further, “The wind turneth about continually and in its circuit” (Ibid.). Although the text here speaks of the wind and not of the sun, yet it is all one, and has the same inner meaning; all this is that the moon may be illumined from the sun and the two may be associated.