HaRav Ovadia Yosef is no stranger to saying thing that cause many of us to cringe. The latest:
I read these words and feel for this man. A man who’s brain is like a computer program. He has memorized pretty much every important Jewish text of the last 2500 years. And believe it or not, on many issues where other Haredi Rabbis like him have ruled in confusingly harsh ways, he has proven moderate (again, in a certain context). And yet, he speaks about an entire people and wishes for their wholesale destruction. He wishes upon them what many for thousands of years have wished upon our people. He wishes upon them what the Nazis almost succeeded in doing.
But I want to dig a little deeper here. Because it seems to me his words are an example of a universal human truth. We all look at our lives, look at our problems, at those people, places, ideas, etc. that are causing us anguish – and wish that they would just dissapear. We allow ourselves to become stuck in one place spinning our wheels, because the cause of all our problems is one thing.
