Rav Ovadia Yosef: We Must Pray for the Destruction of Iran

By: Jacob Edelist

Published: August 26th, 2012
Latest update: August 27th, 2012

Spiritual leader of the Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef during evening prayer in his synagogue in Yefe Noff, Jerusalem.
Photo Credit: Omer Miron/Flash90

With the approach of Rosh Hashana, Rav Ovadia Yosef said on Saturday night that when we eat the traditional holiday symbolic foods, whose names or shapes have a symbolic connection to our supplications to Hashem, especially when we make the blessing over the dates, t'marim, and pray that our enemies be obliterated, we should focus specifically on Iran, the wicked nation which is threatening the State of Israel. "May the good Lord obliterate them, destroy them…"

Tractate Kritut in the Babylonian Talmud teaches that we should eat on Rosh Hashanah, among other fruits, a date – "tamar" – which contains the syllable "tam" or ended, and after eating a portion of it we should say, "May it be Your will, our God and the God of our fathers, that all our enemies and haters and all who plots against us be terminated."

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