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Wonders of Creation: The Song of the Humpback Whale

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein Official

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what a spectacular opportunity here in the K Furs seeing so many humpback whales up close 11 of them and you see literally hundreds of birds converging on the whales as they're feeding and it reminds me of the says on Thursday hasem created Birds and fish to praise His name so we see there's a there's a commonality between the birds and the fish so why why are these birds converging over here well you see the whales are feeding and the whales have an astounding way with which they feed from their blo holes these humpback whales they blow bubbles now what do these bubbles do the bubbles stun the prey so when you see the fluke being raised up that means the the whales are going to dive deep down they may go 20 M below the water and they're going to swim up and as they swim up they're going to blow these bubbles from their blo holes and the bubbles will stun the small fish in the area and then the whales will uh swim up with their mouths gaping wide but even more astounding sometimes the whales will swim upward in a spiral and while they're swimming upward in a spiral they're going to be blowing bubbles and this these bubbles create a circular net and it traps the fish so the fish form these clusters and then they rise up with their mouth gaping wide so as the whales are swimming up the birds say why should we go and look for isolated prey we we could save our energy we'll uh piggy back off of these whales and we'll share the lunch so they sort of share the birds don't take anything away from the whales because they're basically eating their shirim so this is an example of what the gumar says a commonality between the birds and the fish but also we can't help but think there's another commonality because although we hear the birds uh quite clearly they're chirping they're singing But the sonar here on the boat is also picking up the song of the whale we'll stop for a moment to to focus on listening to the song of the [Music] whale so both of these creatures they created on the fifth day they were created the says so we hear the birds being together with the whales being and all of the Bri sings out together