I appreciate the echos of Shylock but your seemingly hurt response leads me to believe that what I had assumed was a rather uniformly Orthodox approach to rainbows may not be.
In the Yeshivish world rainbows are not greeting with clicks of a shutter but rather with tzitters and shudders - on account of the Noach story and the Gemara's dire (and dour) approach to the whole matter of this colorful spectrum in the sky. I was therefore surprised by this post of yours as I had (apparently mistakenly) assumed that similar religious views regarding rainbows held sway among the non-Yeshivishly Orthodox as well.
My apologies for what must have seemed an insult, it was honestly meant as a surprised compliment.
True, but the Gemara does say that everytime a rainbow appears it's a sign that God would like nothing more than to then-and-there obliterate the Earth but that he only refrains on account of that covenant. Hence the Yeshivish attitude.
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P.S. Don't kill the messenger. I simply report the facts as they are, I do not endorse them.
that's Karyut, our Arab neighborhood village to the north in the distance
You appear to have a decidedly non-Talmudic (or Biblical for that matter!) appreciation of the Rainbow. What gives?
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(I mean I like it, I'm just slightly surprised.)
Why? Have I no soul? No appreciation for the beauty of nature? Have you faith in me as a human?
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the echos of Shylock but your seemingly hurt response leads me to believe that what I had assumed was a rather uniformly Orthodox approach to rainbows may not be.
ReplyDeleteIn the Yeshivish world rainbows are not greeting with clicks of a shutter but rather with tzitters and shudders - on account of the Noach story and the Gemara's dire (and dour) approach to the whole matter of this colorful spectrum in the sky. I was therefore surprised by this post of yours as I had (apparently mistakenly) assumed that similar religious views regarding rainbows held sway among the non-Yeshivishly Orthodox as well.
My apologies for what must have seemed an insult, it was honestly meant as a surprised compliment.
mnuez
Shudders? We pronounce a blessing in joy: "Blessed be...He who confirms his Covenant".
ReplyDeleteTrue, but the Gemara does say that everytime a rainbow appears it's a sign that God would like nothing more than to then-and-there obliterate the Earth but that he only refrains on account of that covenant. Hence the Yeshivish attitude.
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P.S. Don't kill the messenger. I simply report the facts as they are, I do not endorse them.