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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. 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".

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

Enemies, God, Iran, Israel, Thinking

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.

Born, Hate, Israel, Place, Serve, Work

We should have a banquet on the day haters die.

Banquet, Banquets, Die, Haters, Should, Should Have

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.

Real, Easy, Prohibition, Prohibitions, Establish, Strength

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.

Arabs, Deeds, Evil, Exterminate, World

Where there is Torah it sustains the world.

Sustains, Torah, World

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

Littles, Study, Natural, Disasters, Torah

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

Balanced, Fashion, Lasts, Significant, Years

Saving a life overrides territories.

Life, Saving, Territories, Territory

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.

God, Israel, Long, People, Place, Work

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

Dependent, Lean, Might, Support, Tree