Why Did Hashem Design the Body This Way?

This is David Wolpe with our question and answer series. Where in a few minutes we try to give answers to complicated questions. In a recent question and answer you were answering why our bodies are in the form that they are. You mentioned in passing that the same organ that's used for urination is also used for procreation. >> [groaning] >> And you didn't explain why that is. That's true. If you can clarify or at least give me a mind where I can understand this as this is something that we have been trying to understand and I have an idea, but I would like to hear your explanation. Thank you very much for all your Torah. I will share with you the explanation that I heard from Rabbi Shapiro. Because as you know on Yom Kippur you say Baruchu searches the heart, the stomach, and the kidneys. Searches the kidneys. So it says the kidneys are the source of Aitzah, of advice. Now what is there about the kidneys that give advice? And he said like this. There are two words that are very similar in Hebrew. One is Shoteh, which is to drink, and one is Sheten, which is urine. Because what you drink basically comes out as urine. Yeah. And both of them he said comes from the same word Shus, as in Shus Libo, which means to choose. And he points out that Shtiya represents desire. What does that mean? That means you can only eat so much. You reach a point where if you keep eating it's not called eating anymore, it's called Achilas Gasa. That doesn't count. You cannot eat as much as you want. You can only eat to certain amount. Uh in Rome they used to have Vomitoriums, I think they were called, where people when they were sued until they were full and they would go in the back room and throw up so they could eat more. Cuz you just can't keep eating. Drinking, you can drink as much as you want. You can sit there with a lot of water and drink it. I have to drink a lot. When um when the doctor told me I can't fit fast on any of the fast days, I said, "Why?" He said, "Cuz you're a very sick man." And he wouldn't say any more. And in Israel there's doctors and there's professors. Professors don't have to answer any questions. So I went to a doctor and he said, "Because since your heart operation you don't have arteries, you only have veins. They're smaller. And if you don't drink then your blood will get thick and put pressure on them. And if one of them should pop off and start spritzing on side of your body, that's going to be worse than you drinking." So I made a cover home if I have to drink on Yom Kippur the mistake I have to I mean sure I'm going to share them. But uh um then certainly during the week I have to drink and I always keep a big pitcher and big cups and I'm constantly drinking. Yeah. So you can drink as much as you want, you'll just keep going to the bathroom. Cuz the Shtiya will turn into Sheten. But what you drink becomes uh becomes Sheten. Just becomes urine. And yet there's a very weird thing. He said this to me and Rabbi Tatz, who was in the shear at that time, who's a doctor, says, "Yes, it's true. Science can't explain it." I had a biology book at home. I looked it up and you can see it in biology. It makes no sense. When your body forms the Zera, it should go straight into uh the organ that the Aiver that you use to be able to procreate, but it doesn't. It goes into a tube and it goes all the way around the kidneys and then goes there. And science cannot explain why they do it. They have a theory maybe it's there to warm it, maybe this, but it doesn't make any sense. It's it makes more sense for it to go directly in where it's just been made. Why would it go around the kidneys? So if Moshe explained, because that's why the kidneys are Aitzah. Because the same organ that produces Sheten, which is nothing, and in fact in Halacha Sheten has a din of Mayim, the same organ that produces Sheten, which is nothing. It's basically what went in and went out, also creates Zera that will create children and Dor Doros in Klal Yisrael. And that's why it's the same organ specifically because Baruchu wants us to know Shus Libo. Drinking is uh your desire. And whatever you want in this world, you can either produce something that's nothing or something that will last forever. He brought a martial to explain this. He says you have an egg and you crack it open, you scramble it up, make it as tasty as you want. Add a little salt, add a little pepper, you know. And you eat it. That's it, it's gone. Or you could take that egg and put it under a chicken and hatch another chicken. And that chicken will lay eggs and you can put those under chickens and get more. Before you know it you have thousands of chickens that you got from that egg or you could just eat it. And so therefore the same organ is there to tell us that we could do something in this world that produces something that lasts forever, Zera, or something that is nothing, Sheten. This is David Wolpe with our question and answer series. This is David Wolpe with our question and answer series.