Good to Know

The Captain isn't a religious man, but like anybody else he's asked himself deep questions such as "what is the meaning of life?" and "why is the Captain here?" Well, thank G-d that Rabbi Yosef came along to provide a satisfying answer to these spiritual mysteries.

The sole purpose of non-Jews is to serve Jews, 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-Jews are permitted to perform on Shabbat.

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“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,” 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.

The "Shas" referred to in the 1st paragraph of the quoted section is an Israeli political party with 11 seats in the Knesset. They are a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government. With this kind of talk coming from prominent Israeli religious leaders, the Captain can just feel imminent Middle East peace in his bones!

[Jerusalem Post] via [Matt Yglesias]