Why are there so many colors in the world - A Moment with Rabbi Avigdor Miller Zt"l #833

Why is the entire world colored with so many various colors, flowers, and fruits?

And the answer is twofold. One reason is to cause us pleasure. If everything was colored green, apples were green and roses were green. Cherries were green and bananas were green. Tomatoes were green and strawberries were green. The watermelon inside would be green. A lot of the fun of life would be missing.

Color is one of the happinesses of life. It's the pink cheeks of your kallah that makes you more interested in going to the chuppah! Colors of life give zest to life.

But there's another reason. The other reason is Hakodosh Boruch Hu doesn't want you to waste your life. He wants you to notice things. So in case you don't notice the wonders of the red roses—and there's a lot to learn from roses. You can learn emunah in a Creator. You see the wonders of the design. But when you pass by a different garden and you see pink roses, so then what you didn't notice the first time, you might notice a second time. And color causes variety, and therefore variety stirs your mind to think about things that otherwise you might ignore. It's the purpose of variety.

And so if you're eating a red apple and you don't appreciate—you should—the glory of a red apple—what a beauty, what a miracle it is. What a wonderful design of packaging it is. Still, if you're stupid enough not to notice that; you're obtuse, you're thickheaded, and you lose the opportunity. So maybe someday you'll be eating a golden delicious and it hits you between the eyes. What a beautiful tint that is. And it'll wake you up.

And that's why you have different colors, to wake up people to notice things they didn't notice before.

YOUR BROTHER'S BLOOD
(Bereishis 4:10)

דמי אחיך
(בראשית ד:י)

The rivalry among brothers is among men's chief tests, and it is one of the first tests in men's lives.

They are expected by the Creator to keep in mind always the necessity of love of their brothers to such a degree that it transcends all other considerations. "Your brother's blood."

Good Shabbos to all!