Ovadia Yosef Quotes & Sayings

We should have a banquet on the day haters die. — 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, all of this because of too little Torah study. — Ovadia Yosef

Saving a life overrides territories. — Ovadia Yosef

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

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

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

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

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

Where there is Torah it sustains the world. — Ovadia Yosef