Why Did Hashem Create Us With Two Arms And Not Four?

Hi, this is David Olowski with that question and answer series. Sarah Rites, why did Hashem create us with two arms and not four? Four arms seem like they would be much more convenient. Reminds me of a Spider-Man comic back in the late 60s or early 70s. Spider-Man didn't want to be Spider-Man. He was always trying to get rid of it. At one point he made some kind of potion and he took it and instead he grew four more arms. So he was like a spider with with six arms and two legs, you know. So uh needless to say if you were the coing and yum kipper going into the kosh kadoshima would be especially effective because he had to take two handfuls of kurus and a spoon that had two handfuls pour it into his two handfuls. Now how do you do that? So he would either hold it in his mouth or hold it under his arm and tip it in. But if he had another arm it would certainly be much easier, needless to say. Um so the answer is that there's something called the adhakadmon. There is a image of a human being that's up in shmayim that we are based on and everything in the human body corresponds to different forces. So most of our limbs represent um the spheres. So the top three spherus kesserma and bina represent our head. The kesser is the skull and the left brain right brain represents and bina your two arms one represents and one represents gva. One is giving that's your right arm which is stronger and one is the left arm that represents gvura which is pulling back. And that's why it says bring close with the right hand and with the left hand push away. Shapiro said once you could only use the left hand to push away. You can't use it to do anything else. The right hand is the right hand does. And so the two legs represent and other parts. The fact that you have 10 fingers and 10 toes obviously refers to the whole 10 spherus and everything that goes with it. Every part of your body, the fact that your nose makes the letter shin, everything in your body is there. The tabor, the uh the um belly button has significance. Every part of your body has significance. Um uh the fact that the same organ is used for urination and procreation is significant. It it it ties in with everything that goes into the human body. So, Hashem made you with two arms because there are two forces of what we're supposed to do in this world, which is giving and pulling back. And you need two different hands to do that. If you had two more, I don't know what you do with them. So, this has been David Alaska with that question answer series. F.F.