Related for Taanit 11:5
ת"ר יורה במרחשון ומלקוש בניסן אתה אומר יורה במרחשון ומלקוש בניסן או אינו אלא יורה בתשרי ומלקוש באייר ת"ל בעתו
Another explanation: It saturates<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Connecting with the root , to saturate.');"><sup>4</sup></span> the ground and waters it right down to its depths, as it is said, Watering her ridges abundantly, settling down the furrows thereof, thou makest her soft with showers; thou blessest the growth thereof.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ps. LXV, 11. vruh srh');"><sup>5</sup></span> Another explanation: [It is termed] 'yoreh' because it comes down<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Connecting with the root to descend. vruh vrh');"><sup>6</sup></span>
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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