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He answered and said: Is it conceivable that we leave Hashem Yisburach to do as He pleases and to decree decrees upon the world? (For at that time it was heard that decrees were going forth against Israel, Heaven forbid.) For we must call Hashem Yisburach away from His business — from whatever decree He is engaged with, and the like, Heaven forbid — to call Him away from there, that He should abandon it and turn His attention to the words of prayer and Torah and song that Israel engages in before Him. And this is the primary service — prayer and Torah — that through them one distracts Hashem Yisburach from the decrees.