“Why is the sky blue?”
Why is the sky such a beautiful sapphire blue?
So you have chachomim who come along and they say – they read
this in a science book once – that as the sunlight reaches the earth’s atmosphere
it’s scattered in different directions because of the gasses and particles in the air;
and for a certain reason the blue light scatters more than the other colors.
Very good, but that’s not the reason why it’s blue.
It’s describing how Hashem makes it blue but it’s not the reason.
I’ll tell you a secret – Hashem made the sky blue so that you’d enjoy it.
The color blue is soft and sweet on the eyes (Chovos Halevavos, Bechina 5),
and you’re expected to enjoy that.
Rabbi Avigdor Miller zt”l
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