Parashas Eikev · Passuk 11:14
IeI That is, GOD; Samaritan reads in the 3rd person. will grant the rain for your land in season, the early rain and the late. You shall gather in your new grain and wine and oil—
Torah Temimah points to Taanit 6a.
TT lemma: ומלקוש (unit 5 of 10).
English: What is malkosh? Shmuel said: something that removes (mal) the hardness of Israel [their stubbornness]. The school of R’ Yishmael taught: something that fills the grain in its stalks. In a baraita: something that falls on the ears and the stalks.
Custom (etymologies of malkosh)
Malkosh is midrashically linked to softening Israel, filling the grain, or watering the ripening crop.