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How long shall the wicked, O Hashem, how long shall the wicked exult?

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15.05.2026

This is what I said this morning, as I do every Wednesday during Shachrit, but today an emotion rose within me which I cannot explain.

The fact that already King David asked the same question we have been asking every day since modern evil rose up again:

How long do the Jewish people have to endure this?

David HaMelech posed this question after the Jews had already fought evil for generations. We still suffer from persecution, though not as we did during World War II. Baruch Hashem, we have the State of Israel. But the hatred of Jews sits quietly in our history, and the memories are passed from one generation to another. One only has to scratch the surface a little, the hatred is still........

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