The Same Genetics: Why Are Humans Different from Each Other?

Anyone who contemplates the wonders of creation cries out from their heart, "Who created these?" As the prophet said in Isaiah: "Lift your eyes on high, and see who created these?" Today I know how to answer this question immediately, "In the beginning, Hashem created the heavens and the earth."

Over the years, I have come to understand that through the pure soul within me, I can see the Creator, may He be blessed. And if you ask how? My answer is that in every laugh or sorrow, love or hatred, or desire that arises within us, we can discover the Creator through the soul He placed within us. There's no doubt that laughter and sorrow, love and hatred do not come from flesh, blood, or the chemicals in our brains, as flesh cannot be joyful, nor can the most sophisticated chemical be angry, love, or crave a particular sweet. If you were to take a cup and place within it a human brain, and flow through it blood along with oxygen and a chemical of joy, what chance is there for the flesh to dance with happiness?

The only way to explain the emotions we have within us is the pure soul that the Creator of the worlds has instilled in us, which thinks, desires, rejoices, and loves. If you think about it, dear reader, what part of you reads and understands the words before you? Certainly not the blood flowing in your brain or the brain cells made of flesh, water, fat, and other elements, as they are inanimate with no ability to think or anything close to it. Only one thing can understand, analyze, love, laugh, or be angry, and that is the soul breathed into us by the Creator of the world.

There are instances where we find significant differences between two siblings born to the same parents with the same genetics: one is very wise and patient, and the other less wise and irritable. And immediately the question arises, aren’t both their parents the same with the same genes? The simple answer is: the divine part within them, which is the pure soul the Creator instilled in them, is completely different in each, and thus they differ so much in their wisdom and behavior.

A Small Helicopter

I have often encountered theories like the Big Bang and others, which are of course utterly absurd and lack any trace of logic. Anyone who entertains such ideas in their heart is straying from the truth. For if someone were to say that the cup of tea I am now drinking was created by a lightning bolt striking the window sill in the kitchen, and suddenly, as a result of the explosion, a glass cup filled with hot water, tinted and flavored like tea and even with the exact amount of sugar I like, appeared, anyone would suggest this person undergo a psychiatric evaluation. And even if he searched, he wouldn't find one person on earth who would believe such a story.

Certainly, no one would believe that the little fly buzzing around in my room, a small helicopter (only it doesn’t need fuel and doesn’t have malfunctions), was formed by a lightning explosion. However, those who claim explosion theories fear reaching the clear and true conclusion, "In the beginning, Hashem created the heavens and the earth," because that would obligate them to follow His commandments. If we were to tell them that the Creator of the world does not require His creations to do anything special, they would no doubt respond immediately by saying that a world so wonderful and orderly certainly has a very wise Creator who arranged it in such an order.

Why Are There Stars?

If we continue to reflect on the Earth we live on, and for some reason, it doesn’t fall even though it's not standing on anything, so too the billions of stars surrounding it do not move from their place, and some are millions of light-years away (each light-year is approximately nine billion km), and the sun that warms us and lights our way is in precisely the right place at the right time. If it were, God forbid, farther away, the world would freeze immediately, and if it were slightly closer, the world would burn, as well as the moon which at night receives its light from the sun and reflects it onto the Earth's surface, is precisely in the right place to illuminate the Earth and not one of the billions of km surrounding it.

Once, someone asked me why did Hashem create stars at such distances, as we derive no enjoyment from them? I replied thus: it is sufficient that one Jew in the world hears that there are stars at such a great distance and raises his eyes to the heights and says, 'Father in Heaven, You truly are great.' Just to awe one Jew at the greatness of the Creator, Hashem created countless stars and at such a distance.

Where Did the Chazon Ish Disappear To?

Likewise, if we observe a small flower, its leaf texture and amazing colors, how it emerges from the ground green and beautiful, and its leaves are nourished by the sun’s rays through a process called photosynthesis, much like the solar energy that only our generation has managed to understand, there’s no doubt that we immediately understand and proclaim there is a Creator of the world with wisdom beyond measure.

It's told about the Chazon Ish, of blessed memory, who once went for a walk in the city for his health, and when he was late to return, his family went to look for him and found him standing by a flower mumbling, "How great are Your works, Hashem, all of them made with wisdom." Since then, they ensured to send a companion with him.

The Rambam wrote in the Laws of the Foundations of the Torah that through contemplating the wonders of creation and the immense wisdom hidden within, one can reach knowledge and love of the Creator, Blessed be He. 

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