Quoting%20commentary for Moed Katan 50:3

כי נח נפשיה דרבינא פתח עליה ההוא ספדנא תמרים הניעו ראש על צדיק כתמר נשים לילות כימים [על משים לילות כימים]

from far Came for the ravage and ruin<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Isa. LI, 19 and Jer. XLVIII, 3.');">⁹</span> in Shinear.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., Babylon. Cf. Gen. XIV, 1.');">¹⁰</span> When [God] views His world with displeasure, He seizes [great] souls in exacting measure, Awaiting their coming as new brides, with delight And, riding on Araboth<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ps. LXVIII, 5 is taken as 'High-Heavens'; cf. v. 34 and Deut. XXXIII. Hoffin. Mid. Tann. ad loc. p. 221 and Hag. 12b.');">¹¹</span> in empyrean height, He welcomes the souls of the pure and right'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' With this thought, cf. Midr. Tehil. on Ps. CXVI, 15: Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints, a parable of a king who sent an eparchos (prefect) to a place which he directed well. Having completed his term, the king gave him another eparchia (province) . In the place which he was leaving they praised him that he had directed them well, and in the place that he was entering they (also) praised him, that he was going to rule them well. Likewise, when the Holy One, blessed be He, sent a righteous man into the world to direct the age and he directed it well, on his departure from the world, people are distressed about him (leaving) : for so long as the righteous man is among them he prevents tribulation from coming into the world while the Ministering Angels rejoice about his coming to abide among them. (Edition Buber, p. 478)');">¹²</span> When the soul of Rabina went Into repose, a certain orator opened [his funerary oration] thus: 'Ye Palms, sway your heads [and deplore]

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