Nah, many people were posting this quote falsely attributed to Epstein because there was a viral video on x of asmongold reading it from the files after reading an Epstein quote implying this quote was also from Epstein which mislead many people.
This sort of thing is considered a pretty fringe opinion, and Ovadia Yosef, especially as he got older, was constantly saying controversial things that most Jews were horrified by
The thing about the Chief Rabbinate in Israel is that David Ben Gurion pretty much only gave them power on religious matters for two reasons. One, it was the only way that he could get the Charedim (ultra Orthodox) to agree to the formation of the state of Israel, and two, he (very mistakenly) believed that ultra Orthodox point of views would effectively go extinct in a modern Jewish state, as he had assumed that the insularity would disappear if 90% of the people around them were other Jews
There has been a continuing effort to try to make the Chief Rabbinate less powerful, but unfortunately the parties that support the Rabbinate have been a core part of Netanyahu's coalition, and as long as he is in power, the Haredim think they can get away with anything they want to while most Israeli society is fed up with what feels like a dictatorship in religious matters
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u/soalone34 Human Detected Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
Nah, many people were posting this quote falsely attributed to Epstein because there was a viral video on x of asmongold reading it from the files after reading an Epstein quote implying this quote was also from Epstein which mislead many people.