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face=Arial>> Personally I think that rainbows are beautiful, and I think
there are no<BR>> accidents. If Hashem made them beautiful then He
meant for us to<BR>> appreciate their beauty and to have beautiful thoughts
when we see them.[--TK]<BR><BR>Which makes one wonder why generations such as
that of RShBY are <BR>deprived of them.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Zev Sero
Have a brilliant
Chanukah<BR><A>zev@sero.name</A></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I wonder how Rambam would have answered that question. I understand
that he considered rainbows to be natural phenomena.</DIV>
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<DIV>One possible approach would be to say that for someone whose
appreciation of Hashem's greatness is on a very high level, seeing a rainbow
would be a spiritual yerida rather than an aliyah -- akin to breaking off from
your Torah learning to say "mah na'eh ilan zeh."</DIV>
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<DIV>(Chazal seem to be saying that there was no rainbow in his life because his
generation was on such a high level, or he was on such a high level, that there
was no reason for Hashem to consider destroying the world, and therefore no
reason for Hashem to put in the sky the "reminder" of His promise not to destroy
the world. But that's hard to understand too, because there were plenty of
sinners in RShBY's generation.) </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT><BR><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>--Toby
Katz<BR>t613k@aol.com</STRONG></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#ffffff size=2
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