I recently found myself saying the bracha on the rainbow and overhearing a kid asking his rebbi how it could be that a rainbow is a bad siman that Hashem wants to destroy the world if it is a natural phenomenon that occurs in thousands of places on any given day. Has Hashem wanted to destroy the world every day since Noach? The rebbi answered that it’s only a siman to those who observe the siman. He explained there is a reason why YOU are seeing the rainbow, and not the guy in the next town, or the person who was indoors that day. The siman is for the observer, not for the world at large. You should take it as a personal wake up call when you see it.
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