Friday, December 29, 2006

Rosh Hashana - Daf 23 - View from Above

Good morning AA. At the end of yesterday's daf, the gemara says that the sun never saw the other side of the rainbow so no one will have any arrow-shooting related suspicion.

From an airplane, you can see a full circle rainbow. Here is a photo. It's not that the bow faces the other way -- it is that from the sky, it is not a bow at all. It is a circle...

Good Shabbos@!




but not really,
a rainbow as we see it is from below upwards(180),
as the sun would see it ;it is above downwards(180)
as your photo shows it is not below or above but at the rainbow
showing us a full circle(360) of ROYGBIV