Talmud do Taanit 1:3

How¹⁵⁵The almost exact parallel is in Taäniot 1:3, Bereshit rabba 13(16). The text here follows the one in Taänit where it is supported by the Rome manuscript. much rain should fall that a man is required to recite a benediction? Rebbi Ḥiyya in the name of Rebbi Yoḥanan: At the start¹⁵⁶After it was dry for at least thirty days (in the Middle East, usually for six months.), that it should fertilize¹⁵⁷The definition is discussed in the second paragraph after this one., at the end that the surface should be wet¹⁵⁸In Taänit and Bereshit rabba, “that a brick should be wet.”. Rebbi Yannai ben Ismael in the name of Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish: At the start, that it should fertilize, at the end that the seal of the amphora should be soaked¹⁵⁹Wine and oil were kept in clay amphoras (חבית) that were closed with clumps of clay. The measure is that the clay should become wet inside.. Is the seal ever soaked? But it is as if it were soaked. Rebbi Yose in the name of Rav Yehudah, Rebbi Jonah, Rav Yehudah in the name of Samuel: At the start, that it should fertilize, atthe end even a minimal amount. Rebbi Yose in the name of Rebbi Zeïra: It was said for fast days¹⁶⁰If there was a draught and a fast-day was decreed, when it has started to rain in the night before services begin in the synagogue, one stops and eats if there was enough rain to fertilize the earth. If they already started to recite the liturgy for fast days during daytime, then one stops according to one of the rules given above. [The Babli, Taänit 25b, knows only of the rule of fertilizing.]. Rebbi Ḥizqiah, Rebbi Naḥum, and Rav Ada bar Abimi¹⁶¹He is mentioned only here. were sitting. Rebbi Naḥum said to Rav Ada bar Abimi: Is it not reasonable that this was said for the benediction; he answered: Yes. Rebbi Ḥizqiah said to Rav Ada bar Abimi: Is it not reasonable that this was said for fast days; he answered: Yes. He said to him, why did you say “yes” here? He said to him, it is the argumentation of my teacher. Rebbi Mana asked Rebbi Ḥizqiah, who is his teacher? He said to him, Rebbi Zeïra. He said to him, but we say: Rebbi Yose in the name of Rebbi Zeïra: It was said for fast days¹⁶²The rules have been formulated for fast days only..