Rabbi Berekhya said: A calamity38Eid can also mean calamity, as in Deuteronomy 32:35. ascended from the earth, and thereupon “and watered all of the surface of the ground” (Genesis 2:6).39When a calamity occurs, people are chastened by it, and the resultant repentance brings about the end of a drought. This is like the opinion of Rabbi Berekhya, as Rabbi Berekhya said: “My lesson will fall [yaarof] as rain…” (Deuteronomy 32:2) – when the necks [oref] of the people are broken [through tragedy],40When they repent. at that point rain falls.