Quoting%20commentary for Taanit 9:9
א"ל רב נחמן לר' יצחק מאי דכתיב (מלכים ב ח, א) כי קרא ה' לרעב וגם בא אל הארץ שבע שנים בהנך שבע שנים מאי אכול
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.');"><sup>7</sup></span> To that generation was applied the scriptural verses, They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
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