Related for Avodah Zarah 10:2
אף משה רבינו לא רמזה להן לישראל אלא לאחר ארבעים שנה שנאמר (דברים כט, ד) ואולך אתכם במדבר ארבעים שנה וכתיב (דברים כט, ג) ולא נתן ה' לכם לב וגו' אמר רבה ש"מ לא קאי איניש אדעתיה דרביה עד ארבעין שנין
Yet Moses indicated this to the Israelites only after forty years had passed, as it is said, “And I have led you forty years in the wilderness . . . but the Lord has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see and ears to hear, unto this day.” Rabbah said: Learn from this that it takes forty years to learn the mind of one’s master.
Tosefta Megillah
[If] the portion of the Shekalim fell [as part of the normal cycle] next to Adar, either before it or after it, we read it [at its normal time] and then we read it a second time [for purposes of Purim], and so two for the second [portion], and so too for the third, and so too for the fourth. And so too for Chanukah (בחנוכה not בפורים). They ask about the halachot of Passover on Passover, and the halachot of Shevuot on Shevuot, and the halachot of Sukkot on Sukkot. In the study hall they ask about the halachot of Passover thirty days before Passover. Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel says, two weeks.
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