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

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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

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Olowski with that question and answer series. Sarah Rites, why did Hashem…
2. 0:31four more arms. So he was like a spider with with six arms and two legs,…
3. 1:02certainly be much easier, needless to say. Um so the answer is that there's something called…
4. 1:33So the top three spherus kesserma and bina represent our head. The kesser is the skull…
5. 2:03And that's why it says bring close with the right hand and with the left hand…
6. 2:35in your body is there. The tabor, the uh the um belly button has significance. Every…
7. 3:05we're supposed to do in this world, which is giving and pulling back. And you need…

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