Reply To: What are the meaning of rainbow–did anyone see one on Friday?

Yitay: I always found that Chayei Adam’s source interesting (“I saw in a Sefer but I don’t remember where”). I spent quite a long time trying to look for the source. It is Mashma from the Gemara though. I always wondered about that too-if telling someone else about it only so they can make the Bracha is wrong according to him. I have thought that P’shat is that it’s K’ilu telling Lashon Harah on the whole world, because you’re pointing out that the world right now isn’t Ra’ui to be saved from Mei Hamabul (see, also, the story in Kesubos when R’ Yehoshua Ben Levi, I think, went up to Shamayim).