No One Has The Right To Challenge Leading Rabbis And Form An Upstart Political Party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Says

In the ongoing haredi infighting leading up to Israel’s national elections January 22, Sefardi haredi Shas Party founder and spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef used his regular Saturday night public lecture to castigate Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak's breakaway Koach Lehashpia party.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

No One Has The Right To Challenge Leading Rabbis And Form An Upstart Political Party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Says
Shmarya Rosenberg • Failedmessiah.com

In the ongoing haredi infighting leading up to Israel’s national elections January 22, Sefardi haredi Shas Party founder and spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef used his regular Saturday night public lecture to castigate Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak's breakaway Koach Lehashpia party and Rabbi Haim Amsellem's Shas breakaway Am Shalem.

”Such a party represents merit [acquired] through transgression,” Yosef reportedly said. “How dare they oppose our well-established party which has decades of experience and the support of Torah authorities?”

Comments

[western jew]

Torah requires that we understand Torah Law and then we have the purpose to challenge any authority who speaks heresy. And I will proudly take up that charge.

[gopjew]

disgusting. this ovadia yosef dude is clearly full of himself.

obviously in orthodoxy, rabbis have tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much power.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Me no like Shmarya, he diss big rabbis. eye lern to rite in yeshiva. (humor)

[Me]

nice sunglasses

[seymour]

no one has aright what is he a dictator

[Eli, what me messiah?]

With apologies to the old Russian political joke...
A Catholic and a Haredi are seated next to each other on a flight. The Catholic boasts of the freedom to dissent in the Church. "For example, we can even criticize the Pope if we want, and nothing will happen to us."
"With our rabbis, we also have such freedom" responds the Haredi, proudly. "We too can criticize the Pope and nothing will happen to us."

[Moshe aron Kestenbaum, Williamsburg]

One can only be chosen for it - by him the rabbi. To be a rabbi does not belong to the list of human rights, and no one can sue to obtain it. the rebbi calls those whom he desires. Nor could any human being publicly question or challenge the teaching of the rebbi contrary to nature, it is only a performance that belongs to the rebbi and the office of the high priest that is controlled by goons who isolate the rebbi and make him do and say all kind of non sense, its time for moshiach to come already

[Yoel Mechanic]

its time for moshiach to come already

Posted by: Moshe aron Kestenbaum, Williamsburg | January 06, 2013 at 01:58 PM

:) This generation has the face of a dog?

[maven]

The joke is that Shas, of course, was a break away upstart religious party formed when R. Ovadia Yosef felt he was insulted by the Litvak world.

[Shmuel]

Thanks maven. You beat me to it.