What does “dew remover” mean?
Hello Rabbi,
I would love to understand what is meant by “Morid Hatal” which we will begin to recite on Passover throughout the summer until Simchat Torah.
I googled and couldn’t find an answer.
Is dew really more common in summer than in winter, and is this just my ignorance? What’s the point here? Why didn’t they find another blessing for summer?
Or is dew not what we mean today?
I see dew on the windows and on the leaves outside now, and for some reason I barely see it in the summer.
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Dew in the Bible sometimes also means a thin rain (I don't remember where. Probably in Micah (in the haftarat Balak)). That is, a kind of drizzle. In this sense, it belongs to “dew”. Perhaps they assumed that the usual dew that is on the plants in the morning was also created by such rain when no one noticed. It fell in the winter as well (according to their theory), but it is null compared to the rain, and therefore its blessing (and the power of God that is revealed in its falling) is null compared to the blessing and power of the rain. In the summer, there is no covering of the rain, and therefore it remains to bless and magnify (say gevurah) God only over the dew.
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