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December 17, 2008 5:21 pm at 5:21 pm
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(wikipedia, couldn’t type this fast enough myself)
In the Midrash on Psalms 118 it states that Bruriah taught her husband, Rabbi Meir, to pray for the repentance of the wicked, rather than for their destruction. According to the story, she once found Rabbi Meir praying that an annoying neighbor would die. Appalled by this, she responded to him by explaining the verse “Let the sinners be consumed from the earth, and the wicked shall be no more” (Psalms 104:35), that the verse actually states: “Let sin be consumed from the earth,” adding that “the wicked shall be no more” because they have repented.