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 ones donkey would die, theyd lose their money. This is his servant. Thats 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 Yosefs 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."
As least he isn't conducting a world-wide jihad to make the world submit to his beliefs.
What do you expect? Not everyone respects or has any sense of religious outreach or what we would call pluralism. Cultural, religious, and ethnic chauvinism is the norm every where else in the world. Expect the normal.
This guy's a flaming jackass and a racist. Does his idiotic bigotry represent mainstream Judaism? Where are the Jews condemning him? Are the rest of us to take their silence as assent?
There is a teaching that talks of the non-Jew's role to assist/serve in the Jewish service to the creator. And- when the world realizes that its own welfare, sustinance, and existance also depends on the Jews' performance of the mitzvahs (commandments) that this will also be reflected in their behavior. In Jewish litergy, every creation has its role to play in service to the creator. In the old days of the USSR, many Jews were made to suffer for this teaching.
The same source also says that when a Jew rejects his/her service to the creator that they are less than any other in creation.
That was not just your thought, I had it too. ;)
"We do not labor, and yet we enjoy prosperity and leisure.
The accursed Goyim have to work for us, but we get their money.
This makes us their masters and them our servants."
"Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?"
--Martin Luther
“Oh, good, Rabbi! I make a Bacon Explosion that’s to die for!”
Now Now, dont you know better than to bring LOGIC into an argument?
sarc.
One interesting question: if the Flood caused all mankind to perish except for Noah and his family, wouldn't Cain's line have stopped at the flood?
If Tuval-Qayin's sister Na`amah was not the Na`amah whom Noach married, then yes (though see next paragraph). If she was, then every human being alive today is descended from Cain.
Then there's the problem of `Og, who was one of the giants who was born before the Flood but who survived to be killed by Moses in the Book of Numbers.
The reference to Jews as "children of Cain" is an anti-Semitic canard based on the theory that Cain was the son of the Serpent and that Jews are therefore "the serpent race." How anti-Semites think Cain's line survived the Flood without being universal is left unexplained by them.
FALLIBLE AND UNINSPIRED men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained FALSE RELIGIONS over the greatest part of the world, and through all time....
--Thomas Jefferson
Cain's line still exist as per what the Heavenly Father had and inspired to be penned... Course not obviously repeated in that oral tradition but another subject for another time/thread.
Genesis 7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of ALL flesh, wherein is the breath of life... (breath of life means 'soul' and none come into this flesh age absent a 'soul'.)
Personally speaking, given the cause/reason for the flood was about protecting the blood line to Christ, I am NOT fixated in that other souls would not have been stowed away on the ark. Some are totally ignorant that the WORD is 'HIS'story, from the beginning to the end of Christ... Now want to really get some undies in a wad mention Christ and boy the fur/feathers fly regardless of what Moses or any of the other elected writers put into the WORD.
According to Moses who penned the flood record before his time, Noah was 'elected' because of his pedigree.... meaning that he and his own family were the only ones left for that most guarded and protected blood line to Christ had not been contaminated by the 'son's of God' who left their first habitation/estate.
HOW strange for a protestant to be explaining literal WORDS to the followers of 'oral traditions'.
And the significance of this is... what exactly?
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