Tuesday, January 09, 2007

rainy season

in r"h in the machlokes when the world was created, rashi there says that r"e holds the world was created on r"h because they needed rain for things to grow and r"h is the rainy season. the maharsha there asks that cheshvan is the rainy season as we will see in taanis and says a "dachuk" pshat in rashi (dont remember off hand)
looking into the 1st daf in taanis, the mishna for example says "beunato" in its season referring acc to everyone to succos, the machlokes seems only to be that it is a siman klala to rain on succos because of the succah. bottom line, from learning the 1st daf with rashi it seems there are 2 dinim in rain (put on your brisker rain hat) 1 is the raining season which may start on r"h as rashi in r"h seems to say and 2 the season of gishmei bracha.if this is true, this might be parallel to the 2 rains mentioned in bresihis, the 1st rain came from hashem prior to creation of man, the 2nd rain came only after man was created and PRAYED for it, as rashi sasys in chumash that nothing grew till Adam prayed for rain because it only rains when man is grateful for it. i won't go further because when i slip into drush i tend to get ..... on this site!

1 comment:

Yossie Schonkopf said...

i found the aruch laner in r"h 11a makes the "tzushtel" (here, i spelled it right!) to this 1st mishna to answer rashi there. but he just says that you see sometimes it rains earlier.