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Looking for source - Rain Man
 
Mordecai Rottman asked:
 
Thank you very much. If I can ask you one more, it would be very much 
appreciated..
 
I am sure that I saw this gemara somewhere and cannot remember where. I have 
asked number of people all to no avail…
 
A man divorced his wife. She married another man who was blind. She used to 
lead him down the streets of the town collecting money. (At his command). One 
day, her former husband heard a commotion going on outside. He saw the blind 
man beating his ex-wife.  The blind man wanted her to lead him down the street 
she used to live on and she was refusing. (out of embarrassment) Her ex-husband 
had pity on her and gave her a place to live so she would not have to collect 
money. Due to his act of compassion…it rained… 
 
THANK YOU !
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The Kollel replies:
 
1) Yerushalmi Kesuvos 11:3.
 
Best wishes,
Yehudah Landy
Kollel Iyun Hadaf
 
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2) Yerushalmi Kesuvos  11:3 (there is no ending there about rain), as Rav Landy 
mentioned. 
 
This Yerushalmi is brought l'Halachah in Even ha'Ezer 119:8 in the Rema; the 
Vilna Gaon cites this Yerushalmi as the source for the Halachah there, as well 
as the Midrash Rabah in Bereishis #87 (note: this might be a printer's error 
and the true source should be Bereishis Rabah #17) and at the end of Parshas 
Behar. In Behar, the Midrash continues with a story of rain that fell because 
of someone helping his divorced wife. 
 
By the way, the Radal in his notes on Bereishis Rabah #17 cites also Tana Dvei 
Eliyahu Rabah Perek 27 as a source for the above Halachah (in addition to the 
Vilna Gaon's sources).
 
Kol Tuv,
Yitzchok Zirkind



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