Yerushalmi Taanit 3:11 ירושלמי תענית ג׳:י״א

MISHNAH: If they were fasting and it rained before sunrise, they do not finish¹²¹They do not continue fasting until evening.; after sunrise they finish. Rebbi Eliezer says, before noon they do not finish, after noontime they finish.
It happened that they decided on a fast at Lydda when it rained before noon. Rebbi Tarphon said to them, go, eat, drink, and make a holiday¹³⁵Deciding practice following R. Eliezer.. They went, ate, drank, made a holiday, and returned in the evening and recited the Great Hallel. What is the Great Hallel? Give thanks to the supreme Power; truly, His kindness is forever. Give thanks to the Master of masters, ¹³⁶Ps. 136, the only Hallel recited at night in the synagogue.etc.

HALAKHAH: “If they were fasting and it rained before sunrise, they do not finish,” as it is said¹²²Is. 65:24., before they will call I shall answer. “After sunrise they finish,” still they are talking and I shall hear. Or may be the other way around¹²³Maybe the verse could be read differently: “Still they are talking” about convening the prayer service on the next day; “before they will call” during regular service in the morning before the prayers for rain.? Rebbi Tanḥuma said, it was stated so: there is no answer but close to calling, and no calling but close to answering¹²⁴Identifying “calling” with “public prayer” as in the second interpretation of the verse.. In the days of Rebbi Yudan they decided on a fast; then rain fell in the night. Rebbi Mana went up to him; he said to him: since I am thirsty, may I drink? He said to him, wait. Maybe they will take counsel to finish¹²⁵If the fast was no longer needed because of the drought, maybe they decided that a penitentiary service was needed for other reasons. The individual is not permitted to break the fast until the fast is suspended by official notice..

Rebbi Aḥa, Rebbi Abbahu, in the name of Rebbi Yose ben Ḥanina: One is forbidden to fast until the sixth hour on the Sabbath. Rebbi Yose ben Rebbi Abun said, the Mishnah states this: “before noon they should not finish,” because it is morning; “after noontime they should finish,” since most of the day already was spent in holiness¹²⁵If the fast was no longer needed because of the drought, maybe they decided that a penitentiary service was needed for other reasons. The individual is not permitted to break the fast until the fast is suspended by official notice..

When Rabban Joḥanan ben Zakkai desired that it rained, he said to his barber: stand in front of the Temple: because my rabbi needs to be groomed and is not strong enough to suffer; then immediately it started to rain. When Rav Ada bar Aḥawa desired that it rained, he took off his shoe. If he took both off the world was swamped. There were building collapses; Rav let one of his students sit there until they had emptied the house. After that one left the house, the house collapsed. But some are saying, this was Rav Ada bar Aḥawah¹²⁶In the Babli 20b told of Rav Huna. But the follow-up is there also in the name of Rav Ada bar Ahawa.. The Sages sent and asked him, what good deeds did you do? He told them, never came a person earlier than me to the synagogue, and I never left a person in the synagogue before I left. I did not walk four cubits without Torah¹²⁷But mentally repeating subjects of Torah study; a necessity as long as oral law never was written down., but never mentioned words of the Torah at a smelly place¹²⁸A formal prohibition (cf. Berakhot 2:3).. I never prepared my bed and slept deep sleep¹²⁹In order to study Torah “day and night”., and never walked among the colleagues¹³⁰When the students were sitting on the ground, the teacher may not pass through them since it would look as if he stepped on their heads; he has to go along the wall.. I never called a colleague by a nickname¹³¹A grave sin; Babli Bava meṣia` 58b., and never enjoyed the calamity of a colleague. The curse of a colleague never came on my bed¹³²But I forgave him immediately., and I never went in public to a person who was in debt to me¹³³Not to embarrass him if he could not pay.. I never was angry with my family, to fulfill what was said¹³⁴Ps. 101:2., I shall walk in the simplicity of my heart in the midst of my house.

¹³⁷The text is repeated from Pesaḥim5:7, Notes 208–216. What is the Great Hallel? Rebbi Parnakh in the name of Rebbi Ḥaninah; Give thanks to the supreme Power; truly, His kindness is forever. Give thanks to the Master of masters; truly, His kindness is forever. Rebbi Joḥanan said, on condition of who stand in the Eternal’s house¹³⁸Ps. 135 as introduction to Ps. 136.. Why these two chapters? Because rainfall is included in them. In the opinion of Rebbi Joḥanan it is understandable, for it is written¹³⁹Ps. 135:7., He brings up vapors from the ends of the earth. How is it for Rebbi Ḥaninah? Because it is written¹³⁶Ps. 136, the only Hallel recited at night in the synagogue., He gives nourishment to all flesh; truly, His kindness is forever. Rebbi Abba, Rebbi Simon, both are saying, ours¹⁴⁰Ps. 113–118, the “Egyptian Hallel”.. Rebbi Joshua ben Levi said, ours. Bar Qappara said, ours. Bar Qappara follows his opinion, as it was stated¹⁴¹Mishnah Pesaḥim5:7.: “during the existence of a third group they never reached I am loving; truly the Eternal listened to my voice, my supplication, since its people were few.” Bar Qappara stated, this is the Great Hallel. A patrician stood before the Ark¹²²Is. 65:24.; he said to them, repeat after me what I am saying. This implies that it is not ours¹⁴³If it were the regular Hallel, the congregation would not repeat the verses but answer every half-verse with “Hallelujah” (cf. Šabbat 16, Note 59).. [Rebbi Mana said, it is ours.]¹⁴⁴Corrector’s addition from Pesaḥim. The miracle was great; therefore he said to them, repeat after me what I am saying¹⁴⁵Because of the extraordinary nature of the event, he changed the usual response to repetition of the entire Hallel.