Posted on 10/23/2010 7:00:47 PM PDT by BlackVeil
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in his weekly Saturday night sermon said that non-Jews exist to serve Jews.
“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world; only to serve the People of Israel,” he said during a public discussion of what kind of work non-Jews are allowed to perform on Shabbat.
"Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat," he said to some laughter.
Yosef, the spiritual leader of the Shas Party and the former chief Sephardi rabbi of Israel, also said that the lives of non-Jews are protected in order to prevent financial loss to Jews.
"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,” said the rabbi, who recently turned 90.
An audio recording of some of the rabbi's remarks was broadcast on Israel's Channel 10.
The American Jewish Committee condemned the rabbi's remarks in a statement issued Monday.
"Rabbi Yosef’s remarks -- suggesting outrageously that Jewish scripture asserts non-Jews exist to serve Jews -- are abhorrent and an offense to human dignity and human equality,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris. "Judaism first taught the world that all individuals are created in the divine image, which helped form the basis of our moral code. A rabbi should be the first, not the last, to reflect that bedrock teaching of our tradition."
I will forgive him only if he has a genuine Jackie Mason dialect.
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Sounds like they need to put some duct tape around this guy’s mouth.
He does not! And he gets about in fancy dress, with lots of bobbles and decorations on his silk robe ... So you don’t have to take him seriously unless you want to.
It goes to prove that even jews have retards among them..
Dude, you can’t let the secret out.
This must be the strain that Muhammad stole to invent Islam.
Chicago Hebrew said words to that effect ages ago (when I was posting earlier ravings ... er, I mean sermons) of the esteemed Rabbi Yosef. He said that Rabbi Yosef was too old, and not mentally fit. However, he does have great influence and a high position.
Roses are red, violets are bluish, if not for Jesus, we’d all be Jewish.
Shame on him. He should know better than to preach slavery, even in jest (of which this odious remark was not).
It is an attitude of long standing in some small circles of Judaism.*
It is the attitude of just about every secular elitist, with a bit of tinkering as to the definition of ‘goyim’ or ‘gentile’.
*I will bet the Sephardic communities in places like Morocco or Libya do not put this on their homepage, lol!
This sure ought to help the ‘peace’ process.
You would be dust without us.........period.
“Roses are red, violets are bluish, if not for Jesus, we’d all be Jewish.”
In all truth, I would be torn between Odin and Ahura Mazda.
But I _do_ like the little poem!
;-)
Well...Uh...Hmmm....
“Shame on him. He should know better than to preach slavery, even in jest.”
As I understand the doctrine, it is not of slavery per se, so much as it is of servitude and second class status. More like apartheid or Jim Crowe with diminished and inferior rights rather than chattel slavery where one is property.
Theologically, I wonder how this school of thought deals with jubilee?
This guy is horrible, he is only giving ammo to the anti-semites. I can practically hear the Neo-nazi’s saying “I told ya so!” from here.
He’s getting up there in age. He probably means every bit of it ~ but the question is does he remember?
ROFLMAO!
Christians are the Jews who followed the Rabbi Christ. Gets complicated IMO.
Actually, i'd probably be an odin-worshipper.
AT 90 we have to forgive him. He’s a bit “touched”. Good way to lose your Goyim though old man.
Zeus Amon was good enough for Alexander, I would have to go with him.
IOW, he's probably not being honest about only treating non-Jews as slaves and donkeys, who's purpose is to allow him so sit on his fat ass, but in fact and practice casts Jews (who aren't among his followers) in this role.
That’s not helpful rhetoric for any [religious] person to espouse.
I bought a Mazda in '72. Put two engines in it before I dumped it for a Dodge Omni -- which was even worse.
Thought this was an Onion article that was mocking Islam.
The first rule of Goyim servitude is:
Don't talk about Goyim servitude.
The wonders of proportional representation and parliamentary governments--you get to have nutbars like this as part of governing coalition.
“I will forgive him only if he has a genuine Jackie Mason dialect.”
ROTFLMBO!!!
Yes, they are part of the coalition, and it has only a narrow hold of power.
Yep. Shas currently holds eleven seats in the Knesset. If they take their marbles and go home, that would be the end of the government.
Another descendant of Cain heard from.
Sounds like the prevalent attitude of the elites on Wall Street.
Actually, according to one opinion Noach married Na`amah, a descendant of Cain, which would mean we're all his descendants.
"Rabbi Yosef’s remarks -- suggesting outrageously that Jewish scripture asserts non-Jews exist to serve Jews -- are abhorrent and an offense to human dignity and human equality,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris. "Judaism first taught the world that all individuals are created in the divine image, which helped form the basis of our moral code. A rabbi should be the first, not the last, to reflect that bedrock teaching of our tradition."
The embarrassment is almost worth getting the AJC's panties in a wad.
Personally, I'd have preferred a talk on Mashiach conquering the world militarily and "the nation that does not serve you will perish." But that's just me.
Got a literal lol from me. Full marks.
I was thinking of replying by explaining some of the differences (at least as I understand them) between Jewish and non-Jewish slaves, but considering what sometimes happens when I hold forth on such topics, I thought better of it!
Is Noach, Noah in the English? That opinion is totally flawed. Cain left the area and married some gal in the land of Nod to the east of Eden. Cain has his own genealogy.
Probably wise.
Ah, well, what can we say? Even those of us who are staunch Pro-Israel Conservatives just KNEW if people looked long enough they’d find a few morons living among the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And so they have...
Truth be told, “Goyim” do not exist to serve Jews. In fact, both Gentiles AND Jews ultimately exist to serve Yeshua, the Messiah. But this message hasn’t quite penetrated the Sephardi Leader Yosef’s heart and mind. I pray that it does — soon.
Shabat Shalom, Yosef.
I am not of that opinion. ;)
Ah, well, what can we say? Even those of us who are staunch Pro-Israel Conservatives just KNEW if people looked long enough they’d find a few morons living among the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And so they have...
[Amalek] asked [his father Eliphaz the Yeminite], "Father, who will inherit This World and the World to Come?" "The Children of Israel," replied [Eliphaz]. "Go out and dig wells for them and fix roads for them. If you do so, your share will be with the lowly among them and you will enter the World to Come." But [Amalek] did not do so. Instead he set out to destroy the world (Yalkut Shimoni, Beshalach 268).
Something to think about.
would not be a bit surprised if he was being supported by the obamanation evil network
Ironically, Rabbi Yosef is Sefaradi, and some anti-Semites actually regard them as "authentic white Israelites" (as opposed to the "khazar" 'Ashkenazim), so they really shouldn't object.
Then again, considering that many anti-Semitic "identity" nincompoops not only have this very same attitude toward "non-'Israelites'" (in fact, even worse; the "identity" Nazis don't even believe non-whites are descended from Adam or are human beings at all), they really have no reason to open their mouths. Of course, this won't stop them.
Cain's wife was his twin sister who had been born along with him in the Garden. What, you one of those people who believes there were other human beings around other than those descended from Adam?
Genesis 4:22 says "the sister of Tuval-Qayin was Na`amah." She was thus the daughter of Lamekh, the descendant of Cain.
One opinion is that this is the Na`amah that Noach married. Another is that Noach's wife was named Na`amah, but she wasn't the same person as Tuval-Qayin's sister.
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