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Rabbi tells of conversation with Messiah
FROM SAM KILEY IN JERUSALEM
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001222210,00.html
ISRAELS ultra-Orthodox Sephardi community was engulfed in a wave of
religious optimism after Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the Shas
party, said that he had conversed with the Messiah in a dream.
Rabbi Yosef, the former Sephardi Chief Rabbi, who recently said that Arabs
were snakes and should be annihilated, told his followers that he had the
dream on Friday.
Rabbi Ben-Zion Mutzafi, one of his followers, said that Rabbi Yosef had
told him that in his dream at the Western Wall plaza and in all of
Jerusalem there were only Jews . . . There were no non-Jewish foreigners
there. They had already been expelled (before the coming of the Messiah).
The Saviour was said to have exhorted Jewish children to study the Torah,
the Jewish Bible. He had told the Iraqi-born Rabbi Yosef: Anyone who is
for God should come to me, so that there will be teachers to teach them
Torah. Not one school will remain without Torah. Everyone will study
Torah.
The rabbis party, Shas, holds 17 of the 120 seats in the Knesset and has a
wide following among the working class and the ultra-Orthodox. Under Ehud
Barak it held the balance of power in parliament and extracted huge
subsidies for its religious schools. Its former political leader, Arieh
Deri, is serving six years in jail for fraud.
These mundane dramas have done nothing to dampen enthusiasm for Rabbi
Yosefs vision. Eliyahu Shai, the Shas chairman and Internal Affairs
Minister, said yesterday: Every Jew who is waiting for the Messiah sees in
the dream . . . significant tidings in anticipation of salvation.
Rabbi Mutzafi said: Until now we have not heard of anyone who saw the
Messiah in a dream. These things are evidence that salvation is nigh.
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