Related for Taanit 9:10

א"ל הכי אמר רבי יוחנן שנה ראשונה אכלו מה שבבתים שניה אכלו מה שבשדות שלישית בשר בהמה טהורה רביעית בשר בהמה טמאה חמישית בשר שקצים ורמשים ששית בשר בניהם ובנותיהם שביעית בשר זרועותיהם לקיים מה שנאמר (ישעיהו ט, יט) איש בשר זרועו יאכלו

Though he goeth on his way weeping that beareth the measure of seed etc.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ps. CXXVI, 5-6.');"><sup>8</sup></span> What is the meaning of, 'Though he goeth on his way weeping that beareth the measure etc.'? - Rab Judah said: When the ox is ploughing, on his forward journey he weeps, but on his return journey he eats the young green from the furrows - And this is the force of the words, 'He shall come home with joy' - What is the meaning of, 'Bearing his sheaves'? - R'Hisda said: Others say it was taught in a Baraitha: The stalk was then one span and the ear two spans.

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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