Related for Taanit 9:12
ומי איכא ירושלים למעלה אין דכתיב (תהלים קכב, ג) ירושלם הבנויה כעיר שחוברה לה יחדיו
Further, R'Nahman said to R'Isaac: What is the meaning of the scriptural verse, The Holy One in the midst of thee and I will not come in to the city?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hosea XI, 9- The A.V.renders, I will not come in fury. Cf. Tosaf, s.v. vrcuja vrcj');"><sup>11</sup></span> [Surely it cannot be that] because the Holy One is in the midst of thee I shall not come into the city! He replied: Thus said R'Johanan: The Holy One, blessed be He, said, 'I will not enter the heavenly Jerusalem until I can enter the earthly Jerusalem'.
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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