The Universe Calls Out to Me: "I Have an Amazing Creator"

I already wrote in the introduction to the book that when I was a teenager, I believed that there is a Creator of the world based on the words of the rabbis at the yeshiva, my parents, and close friends. In my heart, I considered myself a "believer" in their words, but I did not feel that I "knew" there was a Creator of the world.

Our sacred Torah commands us, "Know today and take it to your heart that Hashem is God, there is no other" (Deuteronomy 4, 39). The meaning of "knowledge" is to know and understand, just as I know I have hands, as I see them and use them in many ways, and as I know there is the land of Israel, for I live within it, so too should I know there is a Creator of the world who sustains me and the entire world every moment.

When I began to study and search, I discovered that the whole universe cries out to me, "I have an amazing Creator with great wisdom and power," and more than that, not only did He create the magnificent creation that there are not enough words in the world to describe its beauty and complexity, but He also sustains the creation at every moment, as we say in the morning prayer "Who renews in His goodness every day the work of creation."

Electricity in the Heart?

I will give an example of the wonders of the human body. A few years ago, while on a trip in the north of our holy land, I prepared for the Mincha prayer with my friends until we discovered we were missing a tenth for the minyan. Suddenly, a Jewish person approached us who did not appear to observe Torah and mitzvot and was even dressed in shorts without a shirt. My friends asked him to kindly complete our minyan, to which he pointed at me and said: If you prove to me here and now that there is a Creator of the world, I will join. At that moment, I prayed to the Blessed Creator to give me the right words to persuade him efficiently and quickly. I pointed to his heart and asked him: Do you know how the heart is built? He answered no. I explained that he has four chambers in the heart, whose task is to draw blood from the body and send it to the lungs for oxygenation, and then return it to the body. The heart beats at a rate of sixty to seventy beats per minute without stopping, and then I asked him, who operates your heart? The liver? The kidneys? The young man didn’t really know how to answer me, and said: I never thought about it. I explained that there is a point in the heart that stimulates the heart to beat by small electric shocks, and therefore when a person, God forbid, suffers cardiac arrest, electrical shocks are given to restore the heartbeat.

Indeed, until today, no scientist can explain what causes this point to release electrical pulses to stimulate the heart to continue, but we know that the Creator of the world, in His great power, is the one who gives the order to the small point in our heart to stimulate the heart to keep beating. And if you, dear Jew, want to hear how the Creator operates you, all you have to do is listen to your heartbeats, so I concluded my words. The young man, shocked by the information that landed on him, simply ran from the place...

"From my flesh, I shall behold God"; to see the Creator, one must simply look and listen to our body, through the eyes, which are the most sophisticated camera in the universe, with day and night vision, and the ability to see in four dimensions and in wonderful and varied colors, and more. Until the Chazon Ish of blessed memory wrote in his book "Faith and Trust" that if throughout the generations the sages tried to understand the wisdom of the eye, they would not succeed in understanding its wonders. And if we look, we will find that the Blessed Creator creates billions of pairs of eyes in each and every generation.

The Most Advanced Sensor in the World

Another good example of the immense wonder called the human body is the nose, in each nostril there are ten million olfactory receptors that can transmit to the brain up to ten thousand different types of scents, and the human brain can remember them all and differentiate between them for many years. Therefore, the sages commanded us to bless things that emit a good fragrance so that we may also use our sense of smell to discover the Blessed Creator and His wonderful wisdom.

The Most Advanced Computer in the World

Thus, throughout the body parts we can observe and discover immense genius in each part of the human body, in its unique flexibility, and its exact location in the right place, so that a person can function, especially in the human brain. I heard from the well-known scientist, that in the USA, there are three supercomputers that analyze all the security, economic, and statistical data of its 250 million citizens, and these are the most advanced, most secretive, and largest computers in the world. "Even if we connect the three government supercomputers there together, we will not succeed in producing what one human brain produces in a single moment, as in one moment it also thinks, speaks, and gives orders to the body to walk or run, while maintaining proper balance and all this while all internal body systems are working, including the digestive system, regulating the distribution of food and vitamins to all parts of the body, blood oxygenation by the lungs, toxin drainage by the kidneys, and many other systems that continue to operate simultaneously. And if we ask ourselves who created this great computer called "the brain," which is much more sophisticated than all the computers in the world, our answer would be: someone very wise, far beyond our reach and understanding.

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