Commentary for Taanit 9:9

and thus it so came about that the grain which should take six months to ripen ripened in eleven days.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From the fifth of Nisan to the sixteenth.');">⁷</span> To that generation was applied the scriptural verses, They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

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