Song of Songs Rabbah 2:11

¹“For, behold, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone” (Song of Songs 2:11). “For, behold, the winter is past,” these are the four hundred years that were decreed upon our ancestors in Egypt. “The rain is over and gone,” these are the two hundred and ten years. Is the rain not identical to the winter? Rabbi Tanḥuma said: The primary trouble [of the winter] is the rain. Similarly, the main enslavement of Israel was eighty-six years, from the time Miriam was born. vaymareru ] their lives” (Exodus 1:14), as Miriam is an expression of bitterness [ maror ]>.