Why Fingerprints?

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    feivel
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    For one, our fingerprints help us grip and hold onto things under a variety of conditions. If your finger tips were completely smooth, you would be able to pick up dry objects pretty well, but wet objects would literally slip through your fingers.

    Finger prints form miniature channels for moisture to gather in. The ridges stick through the moisture, allowing a better grip. In this way, your fingerprint’s ridges work just like the all-season tires on your car. They increase your traction in all sorts of weather.

    Fingerprints also help prevent blisters on the tips of your fingers. Your skin has two main layers: The outer epidermis and the inner dermis. You get a blister when there is shearing, or sideways stress, which separates these layers. For example, if your shoe rubs the skin of your ankle too roughly, it can break the connection between the dermis and epidermis in that area. The space between the now separated skin layers fills with fluid, and you have a blister.

    When the layers of skin are flat, sitting next to each other like books on a shelf, this kind of sliding can happen pretty easily. In a fingerprint, however, those ridges and channels form an interlocking geometry, like a waffle in a waffle iron. This helps hold the layers in place, preventing blisters.

    the kindness of the Boreh in the wondrous Guf he gave us is almost endless. you have no idea. you could study the kindnesses your entire life and barely scratch the surface. but we dont notice, maybe because we dont look

    #638000
    myshadow
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    Pretty amazing, add on to that they every single person in the world has a different and unique pattern that can be used to identify them!! It’s incredible

    #638001
    noitallmr
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    Feivel- you should write a book with Hashem’s Niflo’os Haboire…Who agrees with me?

    #638002
    feivel
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    also

    take a look at the folds in the middle of your hand

    close your hand partially and youll notice how cushions form exactly in the right orientation along the axis that you would grip, say, a pole. and crisscrossed with “fingerprints” in all directions. the perfect gripping tool

    #638003
    myshadow
    Member

    Definately.

    #638004
    feivel
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    noit

    im writing the book right here.

    #638005
    qwertyuiop
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    feivel: haha about the book, and thanx for the info.$

    #638006
    noitallmr
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    feivel- yeah but to bring it all together instead of spreading it all over the CR would be a gr8 idea no?

    #638007
    teen
    Member

    ok i dont understand this….if god made us a body obviously he would make it in the best way possible…forget about nice if u make something u dont make it a bad thing u make it in the best way possible…thats not nice thats expected

    #638008
    beacon
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    Feivel- another interesting note: (speaking about the palm)

    Open your right palm- the lines spell “tof” and “nun”= Hebrew meaning to give

    We should always be focused on giving, not receiving.

    #638009
    feivel
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    teen

    you are correct

    i only mean to focus your attention on these things, to help you to open your eyes and see the wonders that we dont otherwise see. its expected, yes, but we need to see and think about these wonders and kindlinesses so that it will arouse in us a feeling of appreciation and gratitude.

    if someone were to hide a million dollars in your house, but you didnt know it was there, would you be grateful?

    #638010
    beacon
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    ames, you human? (jk!) ok you have three lines on your palm- two sort of almost meet-that forms the tof. The nun curves slightly…

    #638011
    kapusta
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    amazing. feivel do you work for an encyclopedia publishing company or something?

    #638013
    beacon
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    Idk, ames. Do you love raw meat too?

    #638014
    feivel
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    kapusta

    after learning ChovosHaLavovos, perek Bechina, and listening to Rabbi Avigdor Miller, tzl tapes i have become interested in learning about the world that Hashem created.

    #638015

    Yasher koach, Feivel. Until I read your post, I didn’t know that fingerprints have a medical and scientific purpose – gripping, holding, preventing blisters.

    We’re all familiar with the use of fingerprints as an identifier. No ten sets of fingerprints have ever been shown to be alike. Fingerprints both solve crime, and deter crime. The FBI has a data base of about 60 million fingerprints. Millions of background checks are conducted through the FBI by state police departments, and also prospective employers, such as public and private schools, who do not want to hire dangerous persons with criminal histories who should not work near children, e.g., convicted violent offenders. The history of fingerprinting is very interesting. The scientific discoverer is a man named Sir Frances Galton, from England, who began studying fingerprinting about a century ago, and promoting its use as a criminal justice tool. There are three basic fingerprint patterns: loops, whorls, and arches. The arch is similar to a rainbow; the whorl is a circle; the loop is like a bobby pin. Galton, a genius, was also interested in differences between the races, and he studied whether there were any differences in fingerprint patterns among about 13 ethnic groups. Only we Jews stood out – he found that we have fewer arches than other groups he studied.

    The fingerprinting of all employees by yeshivas is essential to assure the safety of our children. I’ve been advocating a law that would mandate all nonpublic schools in New York State to fingerprint and background their employees. Even without such a law, all parents should encourage their yeshivas to voluntarily fingerprint and background check their prospective employees. The major frum organizations have endorsed fingerprinting and background checks.

    It is said Rav Yisroel Salanter once spent one full hour studying a leaf, contemplating all the wonders that Hashem had created in order for this leaf to exist. Fingerprints are also wonderous, particularly when we consider that they can be used to protect our children.

    #638016
    asdfghjkl
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    Elliot Pasik Esq.: wow that was good!!! on behalf of the CR Board & CR Gang, i welcome ya to the CR!!! join the fun!!! head to the new members thread to get a proper welcome from everyone!!!!!

    #638017
    flatbush27
    Member

    Mr. Elliot B. Pasik Esq.: The law that you are mandating that forces non public schools to fingerprint prospective emloyees does not apply to current employees. Current employees of yeshivos may have a criminal record and nobody will know. What do we do about the current situation? How can we get these people out of the yeshiva system whether they may be teachers, janitors etc. if they have a criminal record? Even if this law passes these current employees would skoot around it.

    Also, when this law hopefully passes, each fingerprinting of a prospective employer will cost 100 dollars. Does the yeshiva or the applicant pay for this? In todays rough economic times 100 dollars is alot for someone without a job if the prospective employer pays. If the yeshiva pays, where do they come up with 100 dollars for every prospective employee? Why should’nt the state pay? Why cant our government pay to protect our children especially if they pay for the public school fingerprint checks. I think you should advocate in this law that the state pays and not the school or employee.

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