Related for Taanit 11:10
ר' יוסי אומר בי"ז ובעשרים ושלשה ובראש חדש כסליו וכן היה ר' יוסי אומר אין היחידים מתענין עד שיגיע ראש חדש כסליו
R'Nehilai B'Idi said in the name of Samuel: ['Latter rain' is termed] 'malkosh' because it is a thing that removes the stiff-neckedness of Israel.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' vhaec vtuc, tknna (13) ihaev kgu ,ukhknv kg sruha rcs (14)');"><sup>12</sup></span> The school of R'Ishmael taught: It is something that fills the stalks with grain.<a rel="footnote" href="#13"><sup>13</sup></a> In a Baraitha it has been taught: [It is] something which falls both upon the ears and upon the stalks.<a rel="footnote" href="#14"><sup>14</sup></a>
Tosefta Ta'anit
We ask for the rains until Nissan is over, as it says, "And rain will fall for you, the earlier and latter rains during the first [month] (Yoel 2);" [these are] the words of Rabbi Meir. And the Sages say,"Earlier rains [fall in] Marcheshvan, and latter rains [fall on] the first of Nissan (and so these dates are the timetable for prayers for rain). Rabbi Meir said to them, "Knowing that a tree makes fruit for twelve [months], and produce [grows] for six months; what have we found with trees, as it says [about it], "By its month (meaning halfway through the month), it will bear (Yechezkel 47)," so too produce, at its fifteenth day [its season ends]. Haven't you learnt, that earlier and latter rains [fall throughout] Nissan.
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