En utbredd uppfattning inom judendomen verkar vara att icke-judar är mindre värda än judar. Den mycket respekterade rabbinen Ovadia Yosef redogjorde i en predikan häromdagen för den traditionella judiska synen på icke-judar:
Det finns många andra uttalanden av framträdande rabbiner som ger uttryck för samma synsätt. Till exempel det här:
Och det här:
Hur pass utbredd är den här inställningen bland judar i allmänhet? Är den mer eller mindre vanlig idag än förr i tiden? Kan den överlägsna attityden mot icke-judar ha någonting att göra med att antisemitism har varit ganska vanligt genom tiderna?
Citat:
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.
According to Yosef, the lives of non-Jews in Israel are safeguarded by divinity, to prevent losses to Jews.
“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.
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=191782
“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.
According to Yosef, the lives of non-Jews in Israel are safeguarded by divinity, to prevent losses to Jews.
“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.
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=191782
Det finns många andra uttalanden av framträdande rabbiner som ger uttryck för samma synsätt. Till exempel det här:
Citat:
The difference between a Jewish and a non-Jewish person stems from the common expression: ‘Let us differentiate.’ Thus, we do not have a case of profound change in which a person is merely on a superior level. Rather, we have a case of ‘let us differentiate’ between totally different species. This is what needs to be said about the body: the body of a Jewish person is of a totally different quality from the body of [the members] of all nations of the world. ... A non-Jew’s entire reality is only vanity. It is written, ‘And the strangers shall guard and feed your flocks’ (Isaiah 61:5). The entire creation exists only for the sake of the Jews. -- Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Och det här:
Citat:
If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life. -- Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg
Hur pass utbredd är den här inställningen bland judar i allmänhet? Är den mer eller mindre vanlig idag än förr i tiden? Kan den överlägsna attityden mot icke-judar ha någonting att göra med att antisemitism har varit ganska vanligt genom tiderna?
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Senast redigerad av Klompe 2010-10-19 kl. 01:33.
Senast redigerad av Klompe 2010-10-19 kl. 01:33.
