אָרֹךְ כְּאֹרֶךְ הַגָּלוּת

ביטוי (אנגלית)

as long as the Exile

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Figuratively: an extremely long period of time. Literally: as long as the period of the Exile since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, about two thousand years ago.

(“This is the length of this Exile that continues” – Pesiqta Zutarta (Lekach Tov), Bemidbar, Parashat Balak, folio 129b; and: “A novel in three parts, great and as long as the Exile. Or perhaps a tragedy in four acts” – Shalom Aleichem, The Advice, Tzah)