Eliyahu Meir Bloch

It was only later, after the flood, that the climate changed to such a degree that it produced rainbows.

Be that as it may, how does one understand the rainbow as being a sign of this covenant of Hashem's promise of-- that the world will never be destroyed again? So Rav Eliyahu Meir Bloch, and it's quoted here in the same thing they produced from his writings, Pninei Daas, says like this, [Hebrew] What kind of sign is this? [Hebrew] And again, what made me think of this is something that we saw on the Daf the other day.

[Hebrew] he says, "What is the mabul? How does the mabul come about?" [Hebrew] A mabul comes because of sin.

[Hebrew] When there's a barrier, when sin produces a kind of a barrier that separates God from man, and on account of our sins, we produce this kind of a iron barrier, as we saw in yesterday's Daf, this iron partition between God and man that no longer lets, in the Gemara's case, our prayers to go to God, or by the same token, from God's light to come down to us.

Learn Tanakh is a big mitzvah also.

Many years ago, I think it was soon after Hakamas Hamedina, um, Rabbi Eliyahu Bloch was the Rosh Yeshiva in Cleveland in the Telza Yeshiva, and Rabbi Gifter was then, uh, connected with the Tel-- He learned that he w- he was born in Virginia, but he went to learn in Europe before the war in Telza Yeshiva, and then they invited him to be a rebbe there in the Telza Yeshiva in Cleveland.

So The one year soon after Hakamas HaMedina, there was a joint Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration, uh, sponsored by the Mizrachi and by the Agudath.

So they had Rabbi Meir Bloch sign the invitation and Rebbetzin Gifta sign.