There’s a verse in Tehillim (Psalms) that says: “Hashem casts His ice on the world like pieces of bread”  (Tehillim 147:17). Ice is bread. Snow is bread. How so? Snow lasts a long time. It melts slowly and is absorbed gradually into the earth and it becomes bread. Not like the rain which runs down into the rivers and oceans. That’s what the earth needs in order to produce food. That’s why the Gemara says that one snow is as valuable as five rains (Gemara Taanis 3b). The snow