פירוש על מלכים ב 2:16

Perhaps the wind of Adonoy carried him up. Is it possible that yesterday they said to him, “Do you know that today Adonoy is taking your master?”¹¹Above, v. 5. and now they did not know where he was?¹²They thought Eliyahu’s spirit returned to God, but his body was cast to the ground, and they sought to find it and bury it.—Metzudas Dovid This teaches [us] that since the day when Eliyahu was hidden,¹³Some say that Eliyahu’s body remained whole and unharmed. He was carried to גַּן עֵדֶן where he remains hidden from mankind except when he is sent on special missions or to appear to the righteous. Radak Alternatively, they did not know that he would be removed from the world. Rather, they thought that God would take Eliyahu away to some remote location for a period of time. This was not an unusual occurrence. See I Melochim 18:12. the Holy Spirit departed from the prophets, and the Holy Spirit was no longer widespread throughout Yisroel.¹⁴See Tosefta Maseches Sotah 12:5.