• April 20, 2026
  • 3 5786, Iyyar
  • פרשת אחרי מות-קדשים

Rainbows & Halacha

Halacha calls for reciting a bracha when seeing a rainbow.

On the other hand, halacha prohibits looking at a rainbow and certainly discourages telling anyone that a rainbow has appeared.

In these two classes, we will survey the principal sources and learn how the leading poskim derive their conclusions.

A source sheet in both WORD format and pdf is available through the links. In class we will translate and explain these sources.