Ovadia Yosef Quotes

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

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.

We should have a banquet on the day haters die.

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

Saving a life overrides territories.

Where there is Torah it sustains the world.

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

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