<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>R' M Cohen wrote:</div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#243afc">I have also wondered for v many years why such a beautiful thing is used to<br>remind of our sins, to do tshuva, etc</font>.<div><br></div><div>It makes perfect sense. Stop and think. </div><div>The gemara in Yuma (86b) says that when we do Teshuva out of fear
"Zidonos Na'aseh K'Shgagos"; </div><div>Hashem considers the aveiros we did
intentionally, as if we did it without intent and does not punish us. </div><div><b>However</b>, when we do Teshuva <b>out of love</b> "Zidonos Na'aseh K'Zichuyos"; <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">our
aveiros turn into mitzvos</font>. That is the power of Teshuva Mi'Ahava. </div><div>When we do teshuva out of love, the rainbow is beautiful. That's the deeper message of the beautiful rainbow.</div></body></html>