Ovadia Yosef famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world - only to serve the People of Israel,. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.
-- Ovadia Yosef

#Hate #Israel #People
It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. [...] The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.
-- Ovadia Yosef

#Evil #World #Deeds
It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.
-- Ovadia Yosef

#Real #Prohibition #Easy
When we ask God to 'bring an end to our enemies', we should be thinking about Iran, those evil ones who threaten Israel.
-- Ovadia Yosef

#Thinking #Iran #Israel
You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
-- Ovadia Yosef

#Tree #Support #Might
Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
-- Ovadia Yosef

#World #Torah
We should have a banquet on the day haters die.
-- Ovadia Yosef

#Should #Banquets
In Israel, death has no dominion over them With gentiles, it will be like any person â€“ they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one's donkey would die, they'd lose their money. This is his servant That's why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew. Gentiles were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world â€“ only to serve the People of Israel.
-- Ovadia Yosef

#Israel #People #Giving
Saving a life overrides territories.
-- Ovadia Yosef

#Saving #Territory
There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.
-- Ovadia Yosef

#Littles #Study #Natural
The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.
-- Ovadia Yosef

#Fashion #Years #Lasts

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