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The Real Reason Why People Hate Jews
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Dovid Rosenfeld grew up in Silver Spring, MD, and received Rabbinical ordination from Yeshivas Ner Yisroel, Baltimore, MD. He works as a web programmer for aish.com and a writer for ArtScroll. He lives with his wife and family in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel.
If King David authored Psalms, how is it that several of the Psalms talk about events which occurred long after David’s time, such as Psalm 137: “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and also cried as we remembered Zion”.
It’s clear from the Bible and our knowledge of ancient history that idolatry was rampant among primitive man all throughout the world. What did our ancestors see in it? Was it all just nonsense?
