Welcome to our daily dose of bitachon . We were going through the Chovot Halevavot , Shaar HaBechinah . We're now in the third chapter. He tells us how we're supposed to do this activity called bechinah , probing and looking for God in creation. He says the first thing you have to do is you have to look into the the building blocks of creation. Namely, fire, wind, water, and dirt, which is the approach that our rabbis tell us. Of course, we could break it down into smaller parts. And pay attention to how they're combined to create a new existence. Pay attention to the different qualities of the combination. For example, a tree has roots, a trunk, branches, and fruit. The fruit itself has different qualities. The orange has a thick peel, it has seeds, the pulp, and so on. All this came from the same original ingredients and material. Each of these is intended for a different benefit for mankind. There's a wisdom in how they came to be. Each creature came to be differently, the tree through seeds, the bird from eggs, mammals from pregnant mothers. All this is done with great wisdom. There's wisdom in how all the parts work together. There's wisdom in how the creatures look. Every creature, besides its purposeful organization, has a look to it. The zebra has the stripes, the octopus looks the way it is. And there's wisdom in how they all function. When you look at a building, a building has some basic building blocks. You have steel, you have cement, you have wood, you have plastic, you have glass. And basically everything in the house, you have marble. And we look around the house, everything in the house is basically made from those same materials. And look at the how different every part of the house looks like. You have some fabrics, forgot about that, left out fabric. And you put all that together and you have a very interesting house. You take music, there's your seven or eight notes of music, and all the music comes out of those same notes, just all the different combinations. So that's the part of the wisdom of creation that God uses the same ingredients, the same... if we use the table of elements. Scientists believe that there are 94 natural elements. So if we go with that, that means Hashem used 94 ingredients in creation. It's like you go into a kitchen and the chef has his ingredients and he makes endless cakes and endless dishes, all with these same ingredients. The entire world, the entire globe, Hashem took 94 ingredients and made these. Now, of course, we can break the ingredients down even further. And again, we'll give you a short little class in chemistry, which again is our responsibility. We'll refresh you. For a little refresher course. We start with our atom, that's the basic unit of matter. It's the smallest thing that can have a chemical property. There are many different types of atoms, each with its own name, atomic mass, and size. These different atoms are called chemical elements, which is what we spoke about on that periodic table. Now how big are atoms? They're quite small. Each element has a different size. It ranges between 0.1 to 0.5 nanometers in width. What's a nanometer? It's about 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. That means you can't really see these atoms unless you have special tools. Now atoms join to make molecules. For example, two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, as we know H2O, combines to make a water molecule. And when these atoms join together, that's what we call a chemical reactions. So we have our atoms, as we said on the periodic, those are our ingredients. And those ingredients can now form themselves to make many different molecules, endless amount of molecules. But the molecules, as we said, are broken down from different type of atoms. The atoms can further be broken down: three smaller particles: protons, which are positively charged; neutrons, which have no charge; electrons, which are negatively charged. The protons and neutrons are heavier and stay in the middle of the atom, which is called the nucleus. They're surrounded by a cloud of electrons, which are very lightweight. They are attracted to the positive charge of the nucleus by electromagnetic forces. So you think about this. This is wondrous. God put everything together without any glue, any concrete, any type of connecting force. God uses electromagnetic forces. That means if you ever see you put two magnets next to each other and they'll hold. in a certain state based on their magnetic force. You could push two magnets and play with them and hold them quite, not quite next to each other. Well if you were very very smart, you could use magnetic force to keep a house hovering above ground. We use magnetic forces are used in our whole setup of the of the orbits of our planets. But we ourselves are walking around being held together with electromagnetic forces. This is beyond wisdom that we can't even fathom. That's the first step that the chovot halevovot wants us to do is break things down into their parts and see what's the smallest parts. Our rebbe used to quote Rav Chaim Volozhin said that everything is spirituality, because what's in the middle is really a gas. It's not even, it's although we have everything's solids, but if you the solid is really just slower moving gases. But everything ultimately boils down to if you just pull out for a moment that electromagnetic force, everything would just turn to gas. So it's spirit is the ultimate building block of creation. Something to think about. And this is what we're doing in our chovot halevovot .