Can a Living Creature Freeze for a Long Time and Return to Life? 5 Key Insights

"How Does Electricity Get There?"

The heart is a pump that supplies oxygen-rich blood and nutrients to all tissues in the body. Like all pumps, the heart requires energy. It is equipped with an electrical system that provides this energy and sets its rhythm. To maintain a consistent and continuous supply, the heart rate must be adapted to the body's needs.

Who is responsible for the heart's rate? Who adjusts it precisely to the body's needs?

The human heart has a natural pacemaker called the "Sinoatrial Node (SA Node)"—a collection of specialized heart muscle cells that generate an electrical impulse sent to the rest of the heart. Its role is to regulate the heart's pace so that the ventricles and atria contract at the right time and provide constant blood flow to the body's tissues.

This cyclical operation occurs automatically!

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When the electrical impulse occurs too infrequently, the heart rate slows—a phenomenon known as bradycardia. When it occurs too quickly, it speeds up the heart rate, known as tachycardia. In certain heart patients, the rhythm can be disrupted for various reasons, and the heart does not contract at the correct rate and volume. The result can lead to weakness or even loss of consciousness.

Such a disruption can be corrected by implanting an artificial pacemaker—a device that regulates these disruptions and directs the heart on how to beat correctly. A pacemaker is a light, small electrical device that allows monitoring of the heart rate and, when necessary, provides electrical pulses to adjust the beats to the correct pace.

Who created such a complex electrical system in the human heart, which sends electrical pulses every second and causes the heartbeats? "Master of the Universe, how does electricity get there?!" you ask yourself, and you must admit that there is something beyond nature, something ingenious that no human intellect can replicate...

Control System

The brain is constructed to have a complete system that operates continuously, autonomously, without our awareness or control. It is a system that, heaven forbid, if it ceases even for a moment, we could not live. This includes the systems controlling breathing, heart activity, and the digestive system.

The fact that I can talk to you while simultaneously breathing and having my heart function speaks for itself. If I needed consciousness to perform these functions, I wouldn't be able to do anything else. Sixty times a minute, I'd have to worry that my heart beats, and twenty times a minute—consider that I need to breathe, and I wouldn't be able to converse with you now, nor function properly. This is the wonder of creation!

The Creator of the World designed different systems that work in parallel, allowing each system to do its job without malfunctions.

Simultaneously, the subconscious part has control. That is, as long as all systems are working correctly—the heart beats, the lungs operate, and so on, the person is not aware of it and has no control. But the moment a malfunction occurs when something goes wrong, it reaches consciousness. If there is a breathing problem and a person feels suffocation, they are aware of it and can identify it. Without this control, we could not survive.

The thalamus (Thalamus) is a region in the brain that subconsciously routes everything happening in the body. It "decides" when to convey the knowledge to consciousness, when to handle it on its own, and when to postpone it for later handling. Without this control system, we wouldn't be able to function. It is a system that keeps us safe!

Atomic Bomb

The most sophisticated creation in the world is the human body. From simple observation of the brain, heart, veins, and countless other systems in the human body, it's evident that it's an astonishing creation—an immense machine with incredible capabilities!

To claim that this marvelous creation with billions of stars and galaxies, oxygen, water, humans, animals, trees, and flowers was created by a random explosion, that everything began to expand and develop through evolution, and one thing led to another—this is a foolish claim!

Suppose Iran decided, heaven forbid, to use its atomic bombs, leading to devastation and ruin worldwide, erasing all presence. No people, no animals, nothing remains! But after the bombing, all life is erased from the face of the earth, and suddenly from the ground emerges a cheetah, a rhino, or a human, who suddenly begins to walk and speak... If I tell a skeptic this, he'll cut off my words and say I'm not normal; that this situation is impossible!

"Let your ears hear what your mouth says! If you understand that it is not logical that after a nuclear explosion, a rhino or some deer will suddenly rise from the ground, how can you say that the amazing world we live in was created by itself because of an explosion? Indeed, any sensible person understands that an architect had to be involved here, someone who created it. This isn't just one type of animal; it's thousands of different animals, thousands of types of birds, thousands of types of fish... Observe, is it imaginable that all this was done by an explosion?!

Conclusion: Whoever does not want to believe in the Creator of the world, even if presented with thousands of proofs, will deny them all...

Wood Frog

Do you think there is a human or animal in the world capable of stopping their breathing or heart rate without killing themselves? Clearly not! Because if a person's breathing stops or their heart ceases to beat, within seconds they would faint and die. Such is the nature of the world, this is reality.

Wait, but what if I told you it's possible—that there truly exists an animal whose heart activity stops, as well as its breathing, not for a second, not for a minute, but for several months without harm—what would you say to that? You'd likely say it's not logical and that I'm inventing this! If so, please meet the "Wood Frog":

The "Wood Frog" (Lithobates sylvaticus) survives long, harsh winters and can freeze completely, thaw out, and return to activity many times without harm. Despite unprecedented cold waves that cause many damages, the frog withstands them with ease, as it has an extraordinary ability to handle freezing temperatures.

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During freezing, the Wood Frog's color changes from brown to bluish, its heart activity stops, and up to 65% of the water in its body becomes solid. All physical activity, including breathing, ceases, metabolism plummets, and thus the frog spends the winter in a "suspended animation" state until the air warms up again.

Throughout the winter, the "Wood Frog" becomes an ice pillar: it stops breathing, its heart stops, and the frog enters a complete hibernation. The wonder occurs in the spring: when temperatures rise, the frog thaws and returns to life and full function!

The precise mechanisms allowing the frog to freeze and recover are still studied, and many questions remain open: How does the animal survive prolonged periods without oxygen? What are the triggers that initiate the freezing process, and more importantly—the thawing process?

Without a doubt, the creations of Hashem and their behavior in nature testify to His endless wisdom and, no less, to His mercy. Those who created these animals also equipped them with extraordinary "life skills" that help them adapt perfectly to their environment.

How Many Organs Are in Our Bodies?

Do you know how many commandments are in the Torah? There are 248 positive commandments and 365 negative commandments—a total of 613 commandments. Wait, did you know that there are 248 organs and 365 sinews in the human body, exactly matching the number of commandments in the Torah? Was this alignment "accidental"?

How did the "author" of the Torah, written thousands of years ago, manage to match the number of organs exactly with the number of positive commandments and the number of sinews exactly with the negative commandments? After all, X-rays were discovered only about 170 years ago! There is no person capable of examining kidneys and hearts and pointing out the exact number of body organs without sophisticated technological tools like we have today.

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From this, it becomes clear that no human factor could have written the Jewish Torah (existing for thousands of years). The one who created the human body is the one who wrote the Torah, and therefore could know the number of organs and sinews it contains and match them with 613 corresponding commandments.

What, then, is the connection between the number of body organs and the number of commandments?

If we remember that the purpose of the commandments is to build and shape human personality, we understand the correlation:

In the Torah, there are 248 positive commandments and 365 negative commandments. Every organ and sinew in the body is made according to the spiritual structure of the Torah's commandment and aligned against it. And when a person observes the commandment specific to that organ—for example, tefillin for the arm, words of Torah for the mouth, guarding the eyes with the eye, and so on—the soul becomes more illuminated, developing more to be a vessel for the divine light, to delight in Hashem and enjoy the radiance of His presence in the world to come.