Great Technological Inventions Learned from Animals: 5 Points to Consider

What is Milk Made From?

Would you believe me if I told you there's a special machine that could revolutionize the food industry? It's a machine into which you can put straw, grass, or rotten fruits, and it produces milk from them! Moreover, this machine doesn't need electricity to operate.

Think about how many rotten fruits are discarded, and how much grass and weeds exist in open spaces. From this, you can infer how much milk could be produced, and perhaps even the anticipated income! Would you like to buy this machine from me?

If you're curious to know what this machine is, you're welcome to join me at... the dairy farm and see with your own eyes the sophisticated machine, none other than the cow, which produces milk from grass, straw, or rotten fruits without the need for electricity!

A person can witness this immense wonder throughout their life without being amazed. The nature of creation deceives us, and we continue to take everything for granted. All creation shouts: there is a Creator to this amazing world we live in!

We must open our eyes, observe, and thank the Creator for all the goodness and abundance given to us.

From All My Teachers, I Have Gained Understanding – From Animals!

Many of the new and sophisticated technological inventions can be credited to scientists who invested great effort to achieve amazing developments. However, at least part of the credit for some of the biggest technological inventions for human benefit belongs to... animals!

These scientists started to look around and discovered that animals live naturally according to laws and mechanisms inherent within them. Based on observing the behavior of animals, sophisticated inventions have been developed for humans. Here are some examples:

Aviation - The Wright brothers, who flew the first airplane in 1903, observed birds and learned from their flight what was needed to fly an airplane and advance aviation technology.

Can you grasp that? All air travel began its journey thanks to the bird!

Radar and Sonar - Scientists studied what allows a bat, active at night, to navigate in the dark – especially insect-eating bats with degenerated eyesight. They discovered that a process occurs in the bat's brain where sound waves are sent into its environment and the returning echoes are interpreted to detect objects. The bat can calculate the position and speed of the insect with the echoes reaching its head, allowing it to avoid obstacles in its flight. Researchers translated this ability into devices designed to detect objects' presence and speed. What are the devices? "Radar" used in the air and "Sonar" used in water.

The device sends and receives ultrasonic echoes, by which it is possible to know, for example, if an enemy aircraft is approaching or if a foreign submarine is sailing in the nearby waters.

In other words, the defense system of the State of Israel is based on mechanisms inherent in the bat!

There are other impressive developments based on traits that the Creator instilled in living creatures in the air, sea, and land. Researchers admit that the origin – the way animals perform their actions – far surpasses the imitation, the device which they labored to develop.

Undoubtedly, the more one delves into the wonderful wisdom inherent in creation, and the amazing abilities instilled in animals in their creation, the greater the majesty of the one who embedded these laws in the animals...

"The Sound of Joy in the Cities of Judah"...

Everyone knows the seventh blessing at a wedding: "May there still be heard in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem...". Why do we request this in the future tense? After all, sounds of joy and gladness are heard now, in the present.

To answer this, we must preface by remembering that these verses (Jeremiah 33:10-11) were written after the destruction, when Jerusalem was desolate. The Creator promises the people of Israel: Even though now the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem are in destruction and desolation, you will see that there will still be weddings in Jerusalem, there will be celebrations and great joy! Hence, throughout the years of exile, the people of Israel prayed to the Creator to fulfill His promise: that joy and glad sounds would be heard in Jerusalem.

Up until about a hundred years ago, nothing was here, desolation... There were hardly any Jews in the land, certainly no weddings in Jerusalem! The possibility of fulfilling this prophecy, even then, would be considered delusional. But today, when we dance and rejoice at a wedding in Jerusalem, we are witnessing a fulfilled prophecy!

Moreover, when you see elderly men and women sitting on benches, and boys and girls playing in the streets of Jerusalem, they themselves do not realize they are fulfilling another prophecy that states: "Thus says the Lord of hosts: There shall yet be old men and old women sitting in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets." (Zechariah 8:4-5).

How simple and natural today, how delusional it seemed back then...

Only the Creator of history can commit to such a prophecy. He promised and fulfilled!

What is the Length of Blood Vessels?

Blood vessels are a general term for the tubes in which blood fluid flows between tissues and various body organs. Among the blood vessels are arteries, which carry blood from the heart to other parts of the body, veins, which carry blood from various body parts back to the heart, and capillaries, which allow material exchange between the blood and body tissues.

Pay attention to the astonishing fact: if we take the blood vessels in our body and connect them end to end, their length would be... about 100,000 km!!

To give you a perspective, the distance from Eilat to Metula is approximately 500 km, meaning that the blood vessels of a single person would be the travel distance from Eilat to Metula - do you know how many times? - 200 times back and forth!!

Another example: The distance from the Earth to the moon is about 384,000 km. If we connect the blood vessels of only four people, we would have a long thread stretching from Earth to the moon! It's simply unimaginable...

Do you grasp it? The blood vessels spread across our small body in a complex network of tubes, a length of about 100,000 km, through which a constant supply flows, reaching every corner of the body via the blood. Moreover, this complex system functions perfectly in our body without malfunctions, with each blood vessel "knowing" its place and role!

Is there any plumber capable of taking pipes 100,000 km long and installing them in an area of up to 2 square meters (like our body), to function harmoniously as they do in our body? Of course not! So who is the "plumber" who managed to do it in our body?...

Could it be that this wondrous process, indicative of a guiding and caring hand, formed spontaneously without a creator and planner?... By observing the human body, one can understand that it involves a superhuman creator, possessing infinite genius and immense power!

Anti-Religion

I have a colleague at work who complains about every social topic - about whom? About religion, the religious, and Hashem. He attributes governmental failures to the religious, societal wrongs to the religious, and discrimination and inequality to Judaism.

Last week, out of curiosity, I couldn't resist and asked him: "Have you ever read the Torah from start to finish and tried to understand what you read?" It turns out he hadn't read the Torah even once from start to finish, he had never attended a Torah class, and had never set foot in a synagogue in his life.

I told him: "If you were to participate in a medical conference by the world's leading brain specialists, would you consider criticizing the medical information they present and dare to say it's all nonsense, considering you are not a doctor and don't even have 12 years of schooling? Certainly not! So why do you allow yourself to so brazenly attack the Torah? You have no clue about the Torah and its commandments..."

Honestly, I somewhat pity him, that hatred drives him crazy, and his pride, lest anyone dare tell him what to do, gives him no rest, even if, Heaven forbid, it concerns the Creator... But why this hypocrisy?

These people are afraid! They know that once they admit there is a Creator and that the Torah is true, it will require them to change their lifestyle... And who among us wants to change their life, to be told what to eat, whom to marry, and when to work? They'd probably prefer to live in denial...