Why Did Hashem Design the Body This Way?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

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.

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1. 0:00This is David Wolpe with our question and answer series. Where in a few minutes we…
2. 0:30mind where I can understand this as this is something that we have been trying to…
3. 1:03advice. Now what is there about the kidneys that give advice? And he said like this.…
4. 1:33same word Shus, as in Shus Libo, which means to choose. And he points out that…
5. 2:34I said, "Why?" He said, "Cuz you're a very sick man." And he wouldn't say any…
6. 3:05on Yom Kippur the mistake I have to I mean sure I'm going to share them.…
7. 3:36there's a very weird thing. He said this to me and Rabbi Tatz, who was in…
8. 4:37kidneys are Aitzah. Because the same organ that produces Sheten, which is nothing, and in fact…
9. 5:07same organ specifically because Baruchu wants us to know Shus Libo. Drinking is uh your desire.…
10. 5:37And you eat it. That's it, it's gone. Or you could take that egg and put…

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