The Hidden Design of Life: How Biology, Emotion, and Human Experience Reveal a Higher Purpose

Everyone knows how deeply sensitive a mother is when she hears her baby cry. Is this just an emotional reaction, or is it something biological?

As with many aspects of pregnancy and birth, the answer is hormonal: new mothers have significantly higher levels of oxytocin. Oxytocin is a hormone that promotes social bonding in both men and women. But for new mothers, it has an additional role — it reduces anxiety and increases empathy when hearing a baby cry.

Studies show that the moment a mother hears a cry, her brain releases oxytocin, which creates a physical sense of discomfort and urgency.

In His compassion, the Creator knew that if a baby’s cry were pleasant to the ear — like a melody, everyone would melt from its sweetness while the helpless infant continued suffering from hunger without anyone noticing. He therefore implanted in the mother’s brain a tiny “chip” that triggers restlessness whenever she hears her baby cry, ensuring she rushes to help immediately.

There is also another hormone — call it “the reward hormone.” The brain, it turns out, rewards the mother for all her hard work. It increases the release of internal opioids — natural chemicals similar to opium. These opioids create the deep, almost selfish pleasure a mother feels when she sees her baby full, smiling, or peaceful.

This has a clear biological purpose: the feeling of joy motivates the mother to continue caring for the baby so she can experience that happiness again. In this way, the Creator ensures that the mother continues to care for her child.

Who created oxytocin? Who designed the exact chemical formula necessary for a mother to bond with her newborn? Who engineered this perfect blend of biological signals essential for the survival of a helpless infant?

A Heart That Never Stops

The heart — this masterpiece the size of a fist, contracts continuously and beats more than 2.5 billion times over an average lifespan. Every minute it pumps 5 liters of blood to every cell in the body! Over 70 years, that’s 220 million liters passing through it.

Doctors can perform heart surgeries and replace heart valves with silicone devices made of rigid, man-made materials. But these artificial valves deform after a few years, while the delicate tissues of a healthy heart function smoothly and flawlessly for decades. What is this wondrous organ that someone placed precisely in the chest of every human being on Earth?

Though the heart beats incredibly fast during exertion, the astonishing part is that it never stops, it never rests, and it never shuts down for “recovery.”

Despite all modern technology, not even the most advanced medical teams have created a human-made heart that can truly replace the real one. The heart was crafted with supreme genius — a creation untouched by human hands. We received it as a divine gift, effortlessly.

By contemplating the human body, one can understand that it came from a superhuman Creator of infinite wisdom and power.

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Special Forces Training

Many wonder: Why do I struggle with livelihood, with finding a spouse, with life challenges — while my friend marries early, has money, a car, and an easier life? Why does the Creator place me in these difficult tests?

When a customer enters a pottery shop, the seller taps the strong pot to demonstrate its resilience. But he won’t tap the fragile pot, because it would break.

God gives harder challenges to stronger souls. Weaker souls receive easier paths because they simply could not withstand heavier trials. If you are being tested, it means your soul is in the spiritual equivalent of an elite unit. You are being trained with more demanding exercises. It is a tremendous compliment from God.

This world is a training camp for the soul. This life is not the goal — it is simply preparation for the World to Come. Every challenge, hardship, and test is part of the spiritual training that strengthens and refines the soul.

By facing and overcoming these challenges, the soul reaches the next world elevated and ready for profound, indescribable spiritual pleasure.

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The Scariest Animal in the World

Recently, at the zoo, I saw many animals. But only one creature triggered an instinctive, disproportionate fear beyond logic. If I conducted a survey and asked, “Which animal frightens you the most?” the vast majority would likely give the same answer.

The snake. Humans instinctively panic at the sight of a snake — even a small, harmless one.

It's impossible to ignore the ancient “historical background” between humans and snakes. This innate, universal revulsion strengthens the credibility of the Torah narrative. No other animal elicits the same deep, instinctive fear.

Even the toughest men recoil from a snake. Why? Coincidence? Hardly. The enmity between humans and snakes began with the primordial serpent.

After Adam’s sin, God said to the snake: “And I will place enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers…” (Bereishit 3:15)

How could the “writer of the Torah” declare that eternal hatred would exist between humans and snakes for generations — and be proven correct for thousands of years? Only the Creator of humanity could make such a statement and embed this instinct deep within human nature.

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Clinical Death

Many people describe, with clarity and certainty, out-of-body experiences — a near-death experience, or a clinical death. These individuals recount floating above their bodies, seeing events from the outside, and experiencing profound awareness.

Yet despite witnessing something that defies materialistic explanation, some still cling to atheism — without even feeling compelled to investigate further.

You can agree with them or disagree, but the fact remains: a person can experience something extraordinary, acknowledge its reality, and yet refuse to examine its implications. This shows unmistakably that humans possess free will.

I don’t expect an atheist who undergoes clinical death to run to a Judaica store and buy tzitzit. But I would expect an intelligent person to question, to investigate, and to search.

When the rational, analytical skeptic faces a miracle — and then suddenly pretends nothing happened, this exposes the greatest truth: ​Humans are free to choose belief or denial.

Even when the soul is revealed to them, they may choose not to ask.