Why Do Animals Have Easy Access to Food? 5 Points to Ponder

"For Your Wonders and Kindnesses at All Times"

Every day, we recite three times in prayer: "For Your wonders and kindnesses at all times..." I ask myself, seemingly, what kindness does the Creator grant us at all times? "Every now and then" I understand... but "at all times"? Is it logical that throughout the day and night, continuously, the Creator does us a kindness?

Let me attempt to answer this question with a short exercise:
Each of you, place your right hand on your chest, and feel your heartbeat for 10 seconds... just 10 seconds!
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Feel it... and you'll see for yourself if it is a kindness that the Creator does for us "at all times" or not...

Consider: it's a pump that circulates blood throughout the body, operating without any control from you, where each beat signifies... "L I F E"!

So, the answer to the question I started with is yes! Thank you, Creator, for Your wonders and kindnesses at all times!!!

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Holes in the Face

If I were to make two holes in someone's body part, it would likely harm them. Why? Because it's dangerous! The thought of two holes in our body, exposed to the air of the world, is frightening and sounds bizarre, but they really do exist! What am I referring to? The two holes in the middle of our face - the nostrils, used for breathing and smelling.

How could it be that there are two "openings" in our body exactly on the organ – the nose – and that these openings are necessary and essential for its proper function? How did our body "know" exactly where to place just two openings, ensuring one nostril on each side?

How did two openings in the nose get created, exposed to the world and yet immune to the entrance of harmful bacteria from outside? What prevents them from entering our body through the nostrils? After all, the "gate" to our body is open!

Notice, creating two openings in any other organ of our body, like the heart or liver, would lead to immediate death. Creating two openings so skillfully on the designated organ indicates an architect and Creator of infinite genius and enormous power!

Because He is the Provider for All

Yesterday, I returned late from work after an exhausting day, and on my way home, near the parking lot, I passed by a cat lounging and making a face as if to say: "You're just getting here?"...

I thought about it: this cat spends most of the day lounging. It is not troubled by how to provide for itself or its offspring or whether it will find work in its field... During freezing days, it doesn't "shiver" like us from the cold and doesn't need to warm itself with dozens of layers and a winter coat like we do, but rather walks freely as if it's summer weather outside... In general, I've never seen a cat starve and cry out to other cats for a hot meal... How can this be?

Yet, if we observe and witness a great wonder: the cat, like all other animals, finds its food readily available in its environment without difficulty or effort on its part. Vultures, for example, eat carrion (and by doing so, contribute to environmental quality – did you think about that?) Cows graze in fields and eat grass, cats eat insects and rodents, and more...

Think about it: if animals' food wasn't readily available and around them, there would be chaos, and animals wouldn't survive in nature. There is no doubt that the creations of Hashem and their way of life in nature demonstrate perpetual wisdom, and not less than that, mercy. The One who created these animals also equipped them with "life skills" which help them adapt perfectly to their environment, providing each animal with the appropriate food for its surroundings. Blessed be His name forever!

Air Stream

Have you ever asked yourself, what is the purpose of the wind? Seemingly, it's not clear why it's needed, but the wind has a variety of roles. For instance, the wind maintains a constant oxygen level (21%) in the air so that people can live and breathe properly!

Similarly, the clouds appear as if they float in the sky, but in reality, they are pushed by the winds. When the wind is strong, clouds move rapidly, and when the wind is weak, they move slowly in the sky. Thus, the wind enables clouds to move from place to place to "disperse" water.

Hence, the wind is essential, but why is the wind sometimes cold and sometimes warm or mild? What's the benefit of this?

A special mechanism, operating through changes of heat and cold in different parts of the world, creates air currents we call "winds," which carry vast amounts of evaporated water from the surfaces of different continents to places needing water. There, they "condense" back into liquid due to air cooling, naturally falling due to their weight.

In this process, where the warm wind evaporates water and the cold wind condenses water vapor into water, water reaches everywhere, refilling depleted reservoirs, watering and growing, washing and cleaning.

Could it be that this mechanism, which exhibits planning, coordination, and purpose, was created without a guiding, supervising hand?

Be Careful, Warning Sign Ahead!

All the sufferings that come upon a person are from the heavens, and they do not come for nothing. Their purpose is to signal, awaken the person so that they will change from their bad ways, to return in repentance from their not good deeds, or to purify them by light suffering.

Our role is to be attentive to the signals sent to us from heaven.

To what can this be compared?

We pass by a person who appears to be sleeping on a bench in the street. What do we do for him? Nothing. We let him sleep peacefully. But what if three hours later we return and see him still in the same position? Likely, a slight concern for his health will awaken in us, and we'll try to wake him gently. If he still doesn't awaken, we'll try to shake him strongly, and if that doesn't work – we'll call rescue teams, lay him on the ground, and treat him with a resuscitator and oxygen. If this still doesn't help, because his heart has stopped – we'll give him electric shocks so his entire body is jolted, perhaps to awaken...

The Creator sends us signals, beginning "with a light tap on the shoulder"... It's advisable to pay attention to that touch, so that we don't reach, G-d forbid, a state of electric shocks... We need to get out– even just a bit – from the selfishness that surrounds us. Only then, when we emerge a bit from ourselves, can we be aware of our surroundings and observe what happens, act according to the "signals from above" – and see them as life-saving signals...

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