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#One should not stare at the rainbow, rather one should look at it briefly and then make the bracha.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 229:1, Mishna Brurah 229:5, Aruch HaShulchan 229:2</ref>
#One should not stare at the rainbow, rather one should look at it briefly and then make the bracha.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 229:1, Mishna Brurah 229:5, Aruch HaShulchan 229:2</ref>
#One should not tell one’s friend about the rainbow even if one does it in order that one’s friend is able to make the bracha, as it’s similar to spreading bad news.<ref>[https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/משנה_ברורה_על_אורח_חיים_רכט Mishnah Berurah 229:1], Citing Chayei Adam 63:4.</ref> Similarly, one shouldn’t make the bracha loudly so that one’s friend hears it and recognizes the rainbow.<ref>Rav Nebenzahl in BeYitzchak Yikarei 229:1, although Rav Zilberstein  ([http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=49710&st=&pgnum=363 Chashukei Chemed to Berachot 59a]) permits hinting to others by asking them what the words of the beracha are.</ref> However, others assume that since it is a mitzvah to recite this bracha one should tell others about the rainbow.<ref>Rabbi Mansour on [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=266 Dailyhalacha.com], Brit Kehunah Ma'arechet Kuf, Ot Gimmel, Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef (cited in Yalkut Yosef Orach Chaim 229 footnote 1) and Rabbi Eliezer Melamed ([https://ph.yhb.org.il/10-15-10/ Peninei Halacha Berachot 15:10]).</ref>
#One should not tell one’s friend about the rainbow even if one does it in order that one’s friend is able to make the bracha, as it’s similar to spreading bad news.<ref>[https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/משנה_ברורה_על_אורח_חיים_רכט Mishnah Berurah 229:1], Citing Chayei Adam 63:4.</ref> Similarly, one shouldn’t make the bracha loudly so that one’s friend hears it and recognizes the rainbow.<ref>Rav Nebenzahl in BeYitzchak Yikarei 229:1, although Rav Zilberstein  ([http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=49710&st=&pgnum=363 Chashukei Chemed to Berachot 59a]) permits hinting to others by asking them what the words of the beracha are.</ref> However, others assume that since it is a mitzvah to recite this bracha one should tell others about the rainbow.<ref>Rabbi Mansour on [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=266 Dailyhalacha.com], Brit Kehunah Ma'arechet Kuf, Ot Gimmel, Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef (cited in Yalkut Yosef Orach Chaim 229 footnote 1) and Rabbi Eliezer Melamed ([https://ph.yhb.org.il/10-15-10/ Peninei Halacha Berachot 15:10]).</ref>
#If one sees the rainbow at night or through glass one may recite the bracha.<ref>Halacha Brurah 229:3</ref>
#Even if one sees the rainbow through glass or at night one may recite the bracha.<ref>Halacha Brurah 229:3</ref>
#Some say that if an individual is told that there is a rainbow visible during [https://www.halachipedia.com/Chazarat%20HaShatz chazarat hashatz] (after the bracha of hakel hakadosh), they should leave and make the bracha.<ref>[https://www.sefaria.org/Sefer_Chasidim.807.1?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en Sefer Chassidim 807]., codified by Elya Rabbah Orach Chaim 229:1.</ref> Others write that this is certainly not required.<ref>Piskei Teshuvot Orach Chaim 229:3.</ref>
#Some say that if an individual is told that there is a rainbow visible during [https://www.halachipedia.com/Chazarat%20HaShatz chazarat hashatz] (after the bracha of hakel hakadosh), they should leave and make the bracha.<ref>[https://www.sefaria.org/Sefer_Chasidim.807.1?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en Sefer Chassidim 807]., codified by Elya Rabbah Orach Chaim 229:1.</ref> Others write that this is certainly not required.<ref>Piskei Teshuvot Orach Chaim 229:3.</ref>


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