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Rava said an alternative suggestion: Once one has started to mention rain, he no longer stops, i.e., he continues the mention of rain consistently until the summer. And, so too, Rav Sheshet said: Once one has started to mention rain, he no longer stops. In other words, once one has begun to mentio
The Talmud adds: And even Rav retracted his previously stated opinion, as Rav Ḥananel said that Rav said: One counts 21 days from Rosh HaShana, just as one counts 10 days from Rosh HaShana until Yom Kippur. And after the 21 days, one starts to mention rain, and once one has started, he no longer sto
Mishnah: Until when does one request rain? R' Yehuda says: We request rain until Passover has passed. R' Meir says: Until the month of Nisan has ended, as it is stated: “And He causes to come down for you the rain, the first rain and the last rain, in the first month” (Joel 2:23). Since the verse
Talmud: Rav Naḥman said to R' Yitzḥak: Is the first rain in Nisan? The first rain is in Marḥeshvan, as we learned in a baraita: The first rain is in Marḥeshvan and the last rain is in Nisan. R' Yitzḥak said to Rav Naḥman that R' Yoḥanan said as follows: This verse was fulfilled in the days of th
After the first rain fell, the prophet said to the Jews: Go out and sow. They said to him: One who has one kav of wheat or two kav of barley left, should he eat them and live off them for a while or sow them and die? Given the improbability of the crops’ growth under these circumstances, it appears