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0:00 A very great test came upon him. His son passed away to his eternal home, from heaven. Baruch Hashem, we spoke, and he took it to a place of sanctifying Hashem's name at that time. And truly, people sometimes speak about emunah... But he merited to live emunah. And I merited, when we spoke a few times, he truly sanctified the name of the Holy One, blessed be He, and he strengthened people, taught people and explained to them.
0:30 And I said to him some encouragement, to strengthen him over the sacrifice he had offered up, I told him that every thing has a minister. Every thing that exists in the world has a minister. There is a minister over the grasses, a minister over the flowers, a minister over the mountains, over the rocks, over the mountain goats, over all the animals, all the beasts, every thing has a minister. There is only one thing that has no minister, what is it?
0:57 The sea. The great sea, which the Holy One, blessed be He, kicked, and He, the Holy One, blessed be He, is appointed to be its minister. The Holy One, blessed be He, is the minister of the sea Himself. It is written in Chullin, in the Mishnah, not to slaughter over the sea, so that they should not say perhaps one is slaughtering for the sea's minister. So to speak, because they thought there is a minister for the sea. There is a dispute about this, whether it truly has a minister beneath the Holy One, blessed be He, or the Holy One, blessed be He, Himself. According to Harav"ch, Rabbi Binyamin HaKohen, in his commentary on the Song of Creation, the "Pi Eliyahu," Rabbi Eliyahu Deitsch, of the commentators on the Song of Creation, we see that the minister of the sea is the Holy One, blessed be He, Himself.
1:35 If the Holy One, blessed be He, is the minister of the sea, and surely he passed away there, in the sea, then the One who took him is the Holy One, blessed be He, Himself, so to speak, and not through a minister, He, and not through an angel, so to speak He took him. So I told him this, and he very, very much was strengthened and revived by this. I told him that the Holy One, blessed be He, Himself - not through a seraph, not through... - like the Exodus from Egypt, that the Holy One, blessed be He, Himself came and did it. And not through an angel, not through a seraph. It is He Himself.
2:00 I told him: also this, everything connected to the sea, is from Him, may He be blessed, it is from heaven, not through a messenger, as if the Holy One, blessed be He, took the offering from you.
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