Commentary for Moed Katan 50:5

א"ל בר אבין ח"ו דחכה ושלהבת בצדיקי אמינא ומאי אמרת אמינא בכו לאבלים ולא לאבידה שהיא למנוחה ואנו לאנחה

on the wall?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Elijahu Rabbah (ed. Fried.) XIV (XIII) p. 65.');">¹⁶</span> If Leviathan<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The monster fish. 'Canst thou draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?' Job XL, 25. Cf. Isa. XXVII, 1; Ps. CIV, 25-26. vfv vkpb vcrv vkpb');">¹⁷</span> by hook be hauled to land, What hope have fishes of a shallow strand? If fish in rushing stream by hook<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Var. lec. (v. D.S. p. 86) : 'If rushing stream run dry What water may marshy ponds supply?' - Cf. Jer. XIV, 3: Ezek. XLVII, 11.');">¹⁸</span> be caught What death may in marshy ponds be wrought!' Said Bar Abin<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A noted orator.');">¹⁹</span>

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