Quoting%20commentary for Moed Katan 55:18

רבא הוה יתיב קמיה דר"נ חזייה דקא מנמנם א"ל לימא ליה מר דלא לצערן א"ל מר לאו אדם חשוב הוא א"ל מאן חשיב מאן ספין מאן רקיע

[Raba] asked him: 'Did you suffer pain, Sir'? He replied: 'As [little as] the taking of a hair from the milk; and were the Holy One, blessed be He to say to me, Go back to that world as you were, I wish it not, for the dread thereof [of death] is great'. R'Eleazar was eating some terumah [priest's holy food] when he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Angel of Death.');">³⁶</span> showed himself to him.

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