The Jerusalem Post
Mon, Oct 25, 2010 17 Heshvan, 5771
Yosef: Gentiles exist only to serve Jєωs
By JONAH MANDEL
10/18/2010 05:13
According to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the lives of non-Jєωs in Israel are safeguarded by divinity, to prevent losses to Jєωs.
The sole purpose of non-Jєωs is to serve Jєωs, according to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the head of Shas’s Council of Torah Sages and a senior Sephardi adjudicator.
“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 in his weekly Saturday night sermon on the laws regarding the actions non-Jєωs are permitted to perform on Shabbat.
According to Yosef, the lives of non-Jєωs in Israel are safeguarded by divinity, to prevent losses to Jєωs.
“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 Jєω,” Yosef said.
“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,” he added.
Yosef’s Saturday night sermons have seen many controversial statements from the 90-year-old rabbi. In August, Yosef caused a diplomatic uproar when he wished a plague upon the Palestinian people and their leaders, a curse he retracted a few weeks later, when he blessed them along with all of Israel’s other peace-seeking neighbors.
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