1,386. Going to the Cemetery on a Fast

Hilchos Taaniyos 4:18

In all places, when a series of seven fasts was declared, everyone would go to the cemetery after davening, where they would cry and recite supplications to suggest that if they don’t change their ways, then they are comparable to the deceased in their graves. Whenever communal fasts were declared because of troubling situations, the Neilah service would be recited in all locations.

Hilchos Taaniyos 4:19

The following volume of rain was necessary for the community to stop fasting: a handbreadth of rain on parched land, two handbreadths of rain on regular land and three handbreadths of rain on cultivated land. (A handbreadth is about three inches.)