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good everyone
welcome to discovery i hope you enjoyed
last week's and this week's
presentations
of the world famous discovery seminar
and i hope you all came up with the
understanding
that this document that we call the
bible was not written by men
it was given to the jewish people on
mount sinai
by god 3 300 years ago
tonight we're going to have what's
called discovery encore
looking at some of the hidden miracles
not just of what we find
in the torah in the bible but also what
we might find in nature and the world
around us
so i'd just like to give you a
two-minute review of what we
discussed last week on the bible codes
if you remember
we looked at the very first verse of the
bible
and we noted that there was a pattern of
sevens
number one there are seven letters seven
words
there are 28 letters and
if you look at the three nouns which are
elokim hashem
audits the numerical value adding up all
the
value of the letters is 777 which is a
once again a multiple of the number
seven
you look at the verb it comes out to be
203 which is a multiple of the number
seven
you look at the first and last letter of
the first last word
comes down to 497 which again is
multiple seven and if you look at the
first and last letter
of all of the words it comes out to 1
again a multiple of seven all together
the person who did the research mr ivan
patton over 100 years ago
found more than 50 combinations of the
number seven
let's take a little bit further look at
this
very first verse and what do we see
we see it's not only the words that are
very significant
but it's also the letters himself
let's look at the letter aleph
we know stands for hashem why
because aleph is one it's the first
letter of the of the aleph bet
and it has a numerical value of one more
than that
if you look at the aleph it's open on
the top it's open on the bottom
it's open on the left it's open on the
right it's infinite
it expresses god's infinity
more than that if you look at the
actual way that the letter aleph has
written in the safatara
you'll see in the upper right hand
corner is the letter you'd
and then in the lower left hand corner
is an upside down
letter and connecting the two going
horizontally down is the letter of
the letter u is the value of 10 another
10 for the ud
and 6 which is the letter valve comes
out to 26 which as many people know
is in the numerical value of god's name
hey even more than that
how do you spell the letter aleph in
hebrew
you spell it
and pay that's how you spell out the
word aleph
again aleph is one the numerical value
of the letter
lamid is 30 and the numerical value of
letter p
is 80 80 plus 30 plus 1
equals 111
let's go back to that masook
what waters we created
the heavens and the earth who says
anything
about waters so some of you might know
that the greek word for water is hydro
hydro you know like a hydroelectric
plant which is
something run by the water power
or today nowadays we need to be hydrated
we need to
have a lot of water in our body that's
the word hydro
but the greeks weren't just talking
about any
water they're talking about the water of
genesis
hydrogen hydrogen
the greeks also had another comment
about the early universe and they said
that the entire world
was made up of what they called
feeling ramban brings it down his
commentary
and he says in the beginning the only
thing that god created
was a some sinless substance which is
called
purely plural i guess would be
so if we look at these two words
we have water and we have
we have hydrogen and we have helium
today scientists tell us that the
universe
is 99.9 percent
hydrogen and helium exactly what ramban
said
that from that hydrogen and helium that
substanceless
substance these guesses from there
that's the only thing hashem created and
from there
the rest of the universe was created
also points out he says you see the word
elokim
he says don't read it as elokim
read it as
master the power of all the waters
maybe that's an explanation of what the
spirit of god was doing
over the waters
god said ye
let there be light and there was light
and god saw that the light
was good we know
the person is like a candle
or torah is considered light
hashem looked and he saw that the torah
was good
he looked at the light and he saw the
light was good
the 613 positive and negative
commandments of the torah is what brings
light
to the world and if you look
at the words which
is 401 is 212
add them together and it comes out to be
exactly
613. god looked at torah
and he said behold the torah is good
aleph hashem is the most important
letter that we have
so let me ask you a question if the
aleph is so important
and the torah is the most important book
ever brought down
and the book gives us the basis of life
why doesn't the most important book
begin with the letter aleph
why does it begin with the letter bed
hashem says yes the aleph is infinite
it's open on all sides but if you want
to learn about the universe
you can't go back you could only go
forward into bara into the universe
the bed is closed on the top on the
bottom
and in the back don't try and go back
don't ask questions what happened before
the creation of the world
you want to see my universe you got to
go forward
take a look what do we see
when we go forward we look at the
universe
and we look at a universe that's
expanding
and how how's it expanding well it's
traveling
if it started from one central point
it's going out where is the earth in the
entire universe
we don't know are we in the middle nice
to think so
but i don't think we say that it is we
could be anywhere
we on the earth are traveling at a
thousand miles an hour
how's that well the diameter of the
earth is approximately
24 000 miles around at the equator
and when we rotate on our axis
every 24 hours we're traveling
a thousand miles an hour not only that
we are also rotating revolving
around the sun and the sun being 93
million miles away
again if you figure out what the
diameter is and it takes a 365 and a
quarter
phase to make that complete rotation
so we are traveling around the sun
at 20 miles per second
i know it's been windy these last couple
of days but
i don't feel a wind blowing at 20 miles
per second
not only that our entire galaxy
the milky way is traveling through space
and is traveling at approximately 720
000 miles per hour not just us
all the stars of the universe not just
our galaxy
so there is some star some galaxy that's
all the way at the end of the universe
where is it what is it expanding into
what's
on the other side of the end of the
universe
nothingness we call that other side
hashem hashem fills not only the entire
universe
but everything that there is is made up
of hashem
let's go back and look at the earth
there in chapter five we look at the
generations of men
and it says in chapter five
god created man and female male and
female
and he called the name adam
it's very interesting because in the
fifth chapter where god
calls us adam we had just finished the
entire episode of adam
and eve and the snake and what does god
tell
man afterwards he says
you're dust and you're going back to the
dust
so call our name afar
call our name audits
why we named adam well it says we're
named after adama
but we don't come from the adam
according hashem we come from afar
what is the extraordinary significance
of the word adam
the rabbis tell us that every child
that's born has three partners
it's god as the mother and has the
father
the god supplies to the child the
spiritual side
and the parents supply the physical side
looking at the word adam
we have the letter aleph aleph as we say
is one hashem what is left
if you take away the aleph from adam
you have the word down everybody knows
the word dom
is blood the dom
is the life force of the human body
we are commanded so many times unlike
what the christians say
we cannot eat blood we cannot touch
blood we cannot have blood in the food
that we eat
it is the dam
represents a life force inside a human
being
what is the numerical value of
again what is the significance of
dom so as we said a person has hashem
as a partner and he has the mother and
he has the father
and that's where we're commanded we have
to honor our father
and our mother what is our father our
father is our
of again numerical value
of the father first he is one and then
when he has a child
he is two aleph and bet
two plus one equals three
not true about the mother the mother
is again she's one but she doesn't have
to wait
until the child is born until she
becomes the mother
after 40 days the value of men
the fetus inside of her is considered to
be
a child a living child 40
plus 1 is 41 plus the father
is 44 equals dumb
this is a pictorial animation
of what a human cell is i have no idea
what all these things are and i have no
idea
what they do but i do know one thing i
remember
from seventh grade biology our teachers
told us
that every cell in the human body has
46 chromosomes what's a chromosome
the chromosome determines whether a
person will be tall
or short or dark or light or blonde
or brunette or have brown eyes or green
eyes or blue eyes
just like the hebrew letters chromosomes
determine
what the person person's going to be
zohar tells us
that the father gives 22
letters to the child
the mother gives 22 letters to the child
every cell contains 46 chromosomes
except two
the female egg the zygote
and the male sperm that he supplies to
the child
the man gives 22
letters and hashem gives one that's 23.
and the woman gives 22 letters
hashem gives one is 23
23 and 23 matched together
forms a child with 46 chromosomes
that is the extraordinary meaning
of the word adam but there's another
meaning
take a look at that what is that
it's a cow right what does a cow say
i know what you're going to say a cow
says
no i'm sorry a cow
doesn't say moo
a cow if if you look at a cartoon and
they're animating the face
yeah it'll say moon but he doesn't move
his mouth
and say m and an overhaul a cows is
exactly what your teenage son says
every morning when you wake him up for
school official
a cow says
that's what a cow says similarly
a baby and if you were looking at this
pig
first of all my sympathy to whoever the
parents of this child is
if you were looking at this picture in a
comic strip
what would it say that this child is
saying it would say this child is saying
child is not saying why
child is saying ah
and he says it over and over
ah i know
you know children grandchildren you get
to hear that sound over and over
but that goes on only for a couple of
months afterwards
what does a child say a child looks at
the father and goes
oh brings such a smile to the face of
the father
and then after a while after he learns
to use his tongue
he learns to use his mouth and he learns
to say
and he smiles and everybody smiles
what is the child saying the child is
saying
ah da ma put it together
you get the word adam now
this is not conclusive proof of why
we're called adam
but it's much too coincidental for this
to be
a chance happening can't be
let me show you just a few more things
about
this word adam
some of you might be familiar this is
it's called the set table it was written
by rabbi yosef caro
living about 450 years ago he wrote this
as the definitive work of jewish law
it's a it is it outlines all of the
positive and negative commandments
that we have as well as all the hundreds
of laws
that the rabbis have come up with over
the generations
he begins this most important work by
telling us
that every day we have to thank god for
the wonder
called the human body that hashem gave
to us
and he enumerates three inexplicable
miracles of the body
number one he says our body is a balloon
and normally if you puncture a hole in
balloon filled with air filled with
water
everything inside comes out we have four
holes
not just one and air comes in from
two of them and waste material exits
from the other two
and why doesn't everything just flow out
whenever it feels like it
because hashem has given us sphincters
and vowels
he gave us the ability to control the
exits to keep us clean
and to avoid embarrass our interest
but what do you call a human being that
doesn't breathe one of two things
it's either called a cadaver or it's
called the fetus
we all know that when life ends so does
breathing
but before birth a fetus doesn't breathe
the same way that we do its lungs are
inoperable
so what happens to the blood that
normally flows from the heart
to the lungs and back into the heart and
then into the body
for it goes into the lungs to pick up
oxygen
it doesn't happen the baby is floating
in water
so there's an opening in the in the
upper chamber of the unborn child's
heart
that allows the blood to bypass the
lungs and recirculate directly into the
body
miraculously at birth that valve closes
the baby now in this world begins to
breathe
joseph cairo calls that a miracle
number two the body knows how to
separate the waste material
from the nutrients in the food how
okay let's take a look at a typical
shabbat meal now i am sephardic
so sebat meal on saturday afternoon
usually
consists of quebec homos salads
chicken spaghetti potatoes rice peas
chala wine juice soda water
cake cookies cantaloupe watermelon and
sleep
now if you're ashkenaz just substitute
chilland and coco for the kibben
spaghetti
the blood takes all the nutrients all
the minerals
and the oxygen from these foods and from
the lungs and delivers
the exact combination of materials that
are needed by the bones
the organs and the brain and the muscles
each an exact measurement and formula
needed to nourish the different parts
and organs of the body
how does the blood know how to do that i
mean even fedex ups make delivery
mistakes have to make returns
what intelligence stands at the end of
your heart and says
okay blood you go here and you go there
not only that we have one plumbing
system
veins and arteries how is it that the
same plumbing system
that delivers the nutrients also picks
up all the waste materials and carries
it back to the kidneys to the liver and
to the intestines for
elimination doesn't that just serve to
muddy the waters
chef cara calls that another miracle
number three the body and the soul
are united in one being the soul
as we said is the life force
if a doctor walked into a hospital room
and there was a patient that is dead
in a hospital what he sees is a normal
looking body
the only difference is that the soul has
left
where did it reside where did it go how
did it give life to the body
ladies and gentlemen that's a miracle
god has revealed to us many miracles
he's given us some wondrous organs in
our body
let's take a look at just one the human
eye
beautiful human eye now
the eye is miraculous i will tell you
later
how fast it works and how how delicate
it is
but it's not perfect as every driver
knows when he's driving
he has a blind spot that's the area
right over your left shoulder and a few
feet back
near the mirror that you have on the
side doesn't always show that exact
position unless you look for it
so that's why when you're driving and
you want to pass the car on the left
it's always best to look over your
shoulder to make sure there's no other
car there why
because in your eye you have a blind
spot
behind my blind spot in our actual eyes
as well as in the car
when the eye begins to form in an unborn
baby
protruding from the back of the eyeball
is the optic nerve which contains about
000 individual nerve fibers
coincidentally if you believe that the
child forms totally by accident
coincidentally the brain also starts
developing the other end of the optic
nerve
also with 50 000 nerve fibers
in terms of space distance between the
two is millimeters
but in terms of cellular slice that's
the equivalent of millions of miles
and over a very short period of time the
two ends find themselves
and in the middle of millions of
nerve endings throughout the head
they join each other seamlessly
accurately
matching all 100 000 fibers
but where the optic nerve joins
the back of the eyeball there are no
rods and cones everywhere as we know the
retina has the rods and cones which
receives the light sensations there are
no
rods and cones where the optic nerve
joins the back of the retina
so anything viewed in that exact spot
is invisible i want you to try this
experiment
take an ace of spades as an ace of
spades
and i want you to hold in front of one
eye
about 18 inches in front of one eye
and a little bit off to the side trumpet
it
back and forth in and out just a little
bit until it gets to a certain spot
keep both eyes open don't look at the
card look straight ahead
and when it reaches a certain spot
a spade in the center is going to
disappear
why because your blind spot of course
you know
that the spade is there you just can't
see it
now i want to try another experiment
find an ace of spades for an old deck of
cards not to take a content i had
because once you do this part of the
experiment
the deck of cards will never be the same
and no sense of ruining a whole good
deck of cards
take a black marker and draw thick
lines up and down across
the deck the ace of spades and make sure
that one set of lines goes
right through the center of the ace of
spades
do the same exact thing with the card
and trumpet it
back and forth in front of your eye
at 18 inches apart 18 inches away
again don't look at the card look at
straight ahead and again you will notice
when it hits that spot spade in the
center
lifts off but you'll notice something
very strange the grid lines that you
that you made remained even
where the spade was how could that be
the eye lifted the spade off the card
but the lines
that were the same exact spot weren't
affected what about your blind spot
but now ask a better question if you
have a blind spot in your eye
why don't you see black holes everywhere
where you look
because it seems that the brain is
filling in the blanks your brain knew
that there were lines on the card it
calculated
that since all the other lines were
complete therefore
the two lines that cross under the spade
must also
be complete so it filled in the blank
when you look at a wall or a table or
even
the sky or even a smaller object that
small close proximity
the brain knows that these are solid
objects and makes them appear to you
as solid there's only one problem
see scientists know if you go back and
you think
once again the 7th grade or 8th grade or
9th grade science
and you think about the atom
the atom in the center has protons and
has neutrons
and it has electrons that are spinning
all around
but inside that atom is 99
empty space there's nothing there
empty nada so how is it
that we perceive solid objects
how can we see it and how can we
actually feel it
if everything in the universe
made up of atoms is 99
empty space now don't fall off your
chair because your chair doesn't really
exist
neither do you it seems that god is
letting us see things that don't really
exist rabbi shimshon raphael hirsch
one of the leading jewish rabbis in the
1800s
he wrote without the belief in the
supernatural
we could never be sure that scientists
aren't
are not deducing dreams from dreams and
proving
dreams with dreams when we
think see things with our eyes we are
actually creating
a physical reality in our brain whatever
physical is the neurons of the brain
make certain connections
which retain that sight in our memory
if acted on properly brain itself your
brain can bring to the forefront the
face of
every person you looked at as you walk
down the street
you could see your childhood friends and
you could actually visualize the root
with the room that you grew up in
think about this you ever see a picture
of the cartel maybe you've seen the
kotel thing
here's a picture of the cartel with all
the people praying in front
the grass and the trees growing out of
the stones with that famous little domed
picture in the back it's clear right
what about the front door of your house
you've passed through 100 times you know
exactly what it looks like
and think about that picture of the
warsaw ghetto you know the one where the
young boy wearing his overcoat in his
camp is lifting up his arms and
surrender
with a petrified look on his face as the
ss guard stands over
behind him with a rifle if you've seen
it once
you'll always remember it because
the brain retains everything that your
eye sees
the eyes are miraculous they process a
billion
mips what's a mip a mip is
million images per second
a billion mips one million times faster
than their fastest computers
they provide us with one set of vision
for daytime viewing and color
technicolor infinite number of colors
and another way of looking at things
black and white
at nighttime they're synchronized
they're coordinated
they're complementary and they're fast
yes we have miracles
we have miracles all the time
let's talk about one of the miracles of
nature
now we know the caterpillars turned into
butterflies
and tadpoles turn into frogs and very
often
teenagers turn into responsible adults
they're countless natural wonders that
occur on earth
every day the monkey is turning into man
i don't know anyone who's ever witnessed
that but as the theory goes if we wait a
few million years perhaps we'll live to
see it
that's the theory of evolution it says
that can answer
every question about how we got here so
let's see if we can use their theory to
answer the following question
we know that the sun is 93 million miles
away from the earth
any further away we would freeze any
closer
we would fry any bigger we'd be toast
any smaller would be ice if the earth
didn't rotate
one half of the surface would be as dry
as a desert if the access
wasn't tilted the fields would have no
rest
if the atmosphere was any thicker
the sun would not be able to evaporate
the waters of the seas
and there'd be no clouds if gravity
were any weaker rain would not fall from
the sky
but if gravity was any stronger we would
be able to get out of bed in the morning
which is hard enough
as it is as far as we know
the earth is the only place in our
galaxy that has naturally occurring
water because we know
water only is exists as a liquid between
32 degrees and 212 degrees fahrenheit
without water there's no organic life
if there was no wind the continents
would not be fertile it would only be
fertile to shores
much like in egypt where they wait for
the waters
of the nile to overflow whatever it
rained would just rain
over the oceans because there's no wind
the clouds are there because water
evaporated
from the oceans up until the clouds into
the sky there's no wind
the only place we would have any type of
vegetation would be on the shores
if the wind did blow carbon dioxide
because only a small portion of the air
we breathe
would never reach the plants and
there'll be no food
no food no monkeys to turn into men
so here's the question if everything
evolved by accident
how did this sun wind gravity
water cycle evolved so precisely
that it allows for the survival of
intelligent life
on our planet for thousands of years
is that just plain old dumb luck or is
it because
god willed that it should be that way
god created many things
at the instant of creation hashem
said let there be light
and as we know light is a wave and here
we see
in front of you the beautiful colors of
the rainbow
and as we know all the colors
have different frequencies different
wavelengths what is the wavelength
the distance you see the little game
over there which stands for gamma
the wavelength is from crest to crest
or trough to trough the distance between
them is the wavelength
the longer the wavelength the shorter
the frequency
or the higher the frequency the shorter
the wavelength the higher the frequency
because
light of every color always travels
at the same speed and don't take my word
for this
because it's very hard to believe
but check this out for yourself there is
a standard
scientific experiment that has been
duplicated on hundreds of
laboratories around the world it leaves
scientists perplexed
and indeed it should it's called simply
the double slit experiment i'll try to
explain it to you in the clearest
easiest way possible if you don't follow
look it up now to conduct the experiment
you need a few basic items the first is
sunlight
or flashlight the second is a type of
flashlight called a maser gun
then you need a piece of cardboard with
two thin slits in it
that's where you get the name of it the
double slit experiment
and finally you need a piece of
photographic film
to record how light is coming through
the slits
now the experiment is performed in
several different ways
i take this light and it flows through
the two slits in the cardboard
when the light passes through it hits
the film behind
and as you would expect when the light
passes it
it would leave an ex an exposure now if
i only open one
i'm going to get one single line
and it's going to have fuzzy edges if
you haven't noticed
you look at you sitting in your living
room in your dining room where the sun
shines through your windows or you have
the blinds in the front
you will see the shadow of the light on
the floor
and the light isn't exactly perfectly
straight at each edge there's a little
bit of haziness on the sides
that's because of the bending of the
light waves as it hits the barrier
of your window the same thing if i open
one
of these slits i would have one
fuzzy line exposed on the photographic
film
if i closed one and i opened up the
other then i would get
that same line little this the part
and it would have the same fuzzy lines
but now if i open both of them
as you can see the waves going through
the two slits just like if you drop
two pebbles into a pond it travels
out in the form of a wave and because
we have interference between the two
waves
i have a trough that supports a trough
giving me
darkness and i have a crest supporting a
crest
which gives me brightness and then i
have everything in between as you can
see
i have light and dark
and dark and bright and bright and very
bright and dark and dark
and that's standard because as we know
light is a wave
the only problem is albert einstein
proved that light is a particle
that means it's a distinct entity of
matter
did you ever run for an elevator and if
there's people in there you say wait
hold the elevator hold the elevator
and sometimes they try and hit the open
door button so most of the times they
hit the closed door button
intentionally or not so what do they do
sometimes they'll go like this
and they put their hand in between the
closing door and the elevator
wall and the door all suddenly will open
again
why is that because if you look inside
the door
there's a little flashlight and the
flashlight
is shining on the fixed end of the
elevator door
and there's a mirror and reflecting back
to that flashlight where's there is a
sensor it's picking up
the fact that light particles
are flowing back and forth from the
flashlight
to the mirror back to the sensor and
when you break
that it senses the particles
have stopped flowing somebody is in
the way of the door and the door opens
that's because light is a particle
so now let's do this experiment again
now we have electron beam gun
called a mesogun and it's going to shoot
one
electron at a time one photon
one particle of light through the slits
and again we do the experiment the same
way first we close
one of the slits we shine the light
through and once again
you have that same one line with the
fuzzy edges
close the first slit open the second
slit
and you get that same exposure a little
bit further away
on the photographic film in the back
one line with the fuzzy ends now
open both of them and you get that same
wave
pattern again wait a minute
no how could you get a wave pattern
you just said that light is a particle
not only that
there's nothing to cancel out because
matter doesn't cancel matter only waves
do that
furthermore we're only releasing one
particle at a time so
even if it was a wave how could such a
thing happen
scientists don't understand so wait a
minute maybe something
funny is going on so what you do
is you put a monitor like a geiger
counter like when you remember geiger
counters
and you put a monitor on one of the
slits to determine
if it's really a particle that's going
through or maybe a wave
and indeed it detects that one
full particle is going through the slit
but now
since you put the monitor on and if you
open up both slits
instead instead of getting the the wave
pattern again
which is the light dark very bright and
dark and light
you're getting the two fuzzy lines again
as if first one of the slits was open
and then closed and the other one was
closed and then opened
can't that be it seems that the light
not only knows that it's being watched
but it can feel when there's one slit
open
or two light
energy photons electrons no matter what
you call them
they can't know anything and furthermore
why should they care
wait a minute they can't care
even if we say they're intelligent we
never said that they're emotional
but the light seems to care
and they definitely know you can
understand
why scientists puzzle
ladies and gentlemen if we look at light
as a wave it's a wave
if we assume it's a particle and we
measure it as a particle
it's a particle we see the world
as we assume it exists if we look at
this world
as a physical entity it's only physical
if we look at it as a world a spiritual
world created by god
and we live on life as a spirit life
automatically becomes spiritual
let's talk about life again
where does life begin very simple
it says in torah in better sheet is god
spoke to the waters in the land
and commanded them to bring forth living
beings
that's it one statement about the origin
of life on our planet
god said so volumes have been written in
the scientific and philosophical world
about the origin of life everyone from
socrates to aristotle
and plato to charles darwin and stephen
hawkins have
put forth their theories about how life
began
so let's play devil's advocate a moment
let's take their theory of evolution and
understand
if god created light and from light
we got matter how did that matter
become organic there isn't a scientist
living or dead
today who can explain how light
began to grow but that's
a simple part
scientists speak about this pre-module
soup of amino essence that rem
randomly combined to form the earliest
living cells
the most widely accepted theory states
that for many many many many many years
all the organisms that existed on earth
consisted of just
one single cell no venous fly traps no
chilean bats no
dinosaurs just complex
one cell beings that contains within
them the same components that exist
today
in the cells of all living living
organisms ribosomes
nuclei chromosomes as we said before and
more
and as these cells consume more of the
nutrients surrounding them
they grow ever larger and fatter
and obese and as they peruse their
environment
they realize that fat wasn't where it's
at
and if they wanted to continue to
survive they have to make a decision
either lose weight or divide themselves
into two
lucky luckily for us they chose the
latter suddenly
in what is called the cambrian explosion
every genus every violet that we have
today
and perhaps some that are no longer
around came into being
that included according to science the
potential for every variety of plant
fish bird and animal
only one problem
who made that decision do we think
that they the unthinking mass of protons
neutrons and electrons decided that
existence was worth
existing and then on its own they
developed the capability of reproducing
itself
where'd they get that from that would
imply
that life at all levels is worth
perpetuating
that the continued survival of each
specie and in fact
every individual cell serves some
purpose that transcends its own
intrinsic existence
otherwise why bother
where did these cells come from what do
they perform
what miracles are there that allows
life to continue
so any idea what this is
you're probably looking at you say well
looks like a green shoelace
or i know what it is you know when you
tie a birthday present you have the
ribbon
around and you tie the ribbon up on top
then you take a scissor and you
shoot the end of it and it curls all
like that and makes a little ribbon like
that
that's what that is no
close but on cigar no cigar
that is actually an amino acid
that is assembling itself into a protein
coil you knew that right i i know you
knew that
in 1999 ibm
undertook an initiative called project
blue gene
ibm was known as big blue so they took
on the name
project blue and gene is g and e as in
what goes on in a cell it cost over 100
million dollars and the price tag is
still growing
it was upgraded 2004 it was upgraded
again in 2007
upgraded and again in 2012
what was it for it was designed to
imitate the process
whereby a human body cell assembles
the amino acids into a protein in the
exact
sequences as directed by the body's
individual dna
and bundles then it bundles the protein
into a coil if it was successful
the program would help scientists to
understand how proteins develop
and possibly lead them to understanding
how they can cure
diseases and allergies a very noble
cause indeed
each computer was the size of a
refrigerator
each one contained a minimum of 1064
individual computer nodes and when
completed was capable
of performing a pedo flop a pedoflop
not a broadway flop a pedo flop what is
a pedophile
a petaflop is one quadrillion
calculations
per second that's a one followed by
15 zeros that's a lot faster than your
dell pentium let me tell you
so the first prototype was finally put
into service 2004
they began testing with one of the
simpler proteins of the body
containing only 300 amino acids even
though
body cell usually will assemble about
amino acids into each protein component
am i losing you yet wait why only half
the average size because as you can
imagine the more variables that there
are
the greater the amount of permutations
the longer it would take
to process when all was said and done
the simulation was accomplished a very
wonderful discovery
the problem is it took
24 hours a day for 365 days and that's
at petaflop speeds by means of a
comparison
the cells in your body can do that
in what's called a millisecond
that means the cells of your body
are more than 500
000 times faster than the world's
largest fastest smartest costliest
man-made computer who did that
who came up with that adam
this is the miracle of man coming
the miracles don't only extend to
mankind
it also extend to the animal world this
as you can probably tell
is a chicken hatching from an egg if
you've ever cracked open an egg
you know that you have the yolk which
eventually is the chicken
if it's fertilized and it's hatched and
all that goo
around it are all the nutrients that it
needs
to grow from the embryo
into the chicken ready to pop itself out
of its shell
it stays there it consumes that goo and
when it's large enough
it breaks open the shell
this ladies and gentlemen is an
alligator
now you will notice that the alligator
shell uh
egg is a lot bigger and it's also a lot
thicker what would happen
if the chicken egg was as thick
as an alligator egg
you'd never have another chicken now i
don't know which came first the chicken
or the egg
but if the chicken came first you'd
never have another one
because that little baby chick would
never be able
to peck its way out of an egg if the
shell was too thick what about the
alligator
what happens if the alligator had an
eggshell that was as thin
as the chickens well you'd never have
any more alligators
because by the time the mother tried
to give birth or hatch that
produce that egg it would be nothing but
goo
the shell would crack fish fowls
reptiles insects all unrelated species
unrelated genus many of them lay eggs
each one is packed with the nutrients
that a baby needs to develop
until it's strong enough to make its way
into this world
each shell not too thin and not too
thick
just right to withstand the pressure of
egg birth
but not too thick the baby can peck its
way out
how did it happen were these just
multiple accidents of nature or was this
planned parenthood by god
miracles that occur even in the animal
world
finally let's take a look take a look
at the world of plants a tree for those
of you who have ever
listened to any of the tapes from rabbi
avigdormilla
you understand the miracles of an apple
seed
and what an apple can produce the seed
a little black dot put it into the
ground
and just as it disintegrates up from the
seat itself sprouts little a little
branch
soon you have a trunk you have branches
you have leads
you have buds you have blossoms i'm not
sure which one comes first a blood or a
blasto by a blossom or a bud
and you have an apple and inside that
apple are more seeds
that you can take and you can plant you
do it again
what do you think about when you think
of when you see a tree
i would say most people don't think at
all
you've seen one tree you've seen them
all perhaps
in autumn when you see the beautiful
colors
you remark at how beautiful the colors
are of that tree
but otherwise a tree is a tree what does
a tree represent
a tree signifies the bridge between this
world
and the next word it has its roots in
the ground
and its head in shamayim man has been
called
we are the tree of the field
what does a tree do a tree provides
shelter and shade it provides food
it provides coolness it provides the
building
materials necessary to build homes
to build a world food
shelter housing shade life giving
oxygen can we do
any less than a tree a tree prepares the
world
for growth that's our job we have to be
in
we've come full circle we end where we
began
letters words numbers
nature science morals
values mankind animals and plants
one unified whole all of these
in the torah learn it explore it
and enjoy it thank you very much
you