Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Ovadia Yosef

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Iraqi priest Ovadia Yosef.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Ovadia Yosef was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and a founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party. Yosef's responsa were highly regarded within Haredi circles, particularly among Mizrahi communities, among whom he was regarded as "the most important living halakhic authority". He was however condemned for making numerous offensive statements about his opponents which made him a controversial figure in his later years.

Iraqi - Priest | September 24, 1920 - October 7, 2013

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Saving a life overrides territories.

Ovadia Yosef

You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.

Ovadia Yosef

Where there is Torah it sustains the world.

Ovadia Yosef

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.

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We should have a banquet on the day haters die.

Ovadia Yosef

When we ask God to 'bring an end to our enemies,' we should be thinking about Iran, those evil ones who threaten Israel.

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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.

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In Israel, death has no dominion over them With gentiles, it will be like any person – 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 – only to serve the People of Israel.

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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

The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.

Ovadia Yosef

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

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, because there isn't enough Torah study.

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Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Ovadia Yosef

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