Miriam thought at once of the mabul, the great flood from the Torah, and quickly said the berachah. Then Moshe realised he had forgotten it altogether. Luckily his kippah was on his head — so he said the berachah too. They had learned it at school, after all.

Papa looked up from his book. "Do you know," he asked, "why we say a berachah over the rainbow?"

Because we are grateful that Hashem keeps the world whole. That matters — for us as well. For we too must keep the world whole, and break nothing that someone else could still use. And today? Today far too much gets broken just like that, and far too much food lands in the bin. Think of the children who have hardly anything to eat.

Shabbat Shalom!