• July 27, 2026
  • 13 5786, Av
  • פרשת עקב

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.