Quoting%20commentary for Taanit 13:4
רבא רמי כתיב יערף כמטר לקחי וכתיב תזל כטל אמרתי אם תלמיד חכם הגון הוא כטל ואם לאו עורפהו כמטר
It is written 'My doctrine shall drop as the rain', and immediately on this follows, My speech shall distil as dew.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXXII, 2. uvprug ;rg');"><sup>6</sup></span> [The implication here is]. if the scholar is a worthy person then he is like unto dew, but if he is not then drop him like rain.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' from the root , to break the neck, to destroy; cf. Ex. XIII, 13. Hos. X, 11. Drop him with all your might just as the heavy rains coming down with force on the crops crush them.');"><sup>7</sup></span>
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