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Ovadia Yosef Quotes

1920–2013 Israel

Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: עובדיה יוסף‬ Ovadya Yosef, Arabic: عبد الله يوسف‎, translit. Abdullah Yusuf; September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013) was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and the founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party.

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It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable.

It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on law with an emphasis on what is permitted.

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.

“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel,”.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ovadia Yosef (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.