Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef spoke out against the head of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, Itamar Ben-Gvir, during a Torah class on Saturday night.
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The religious leader expressed his anger at the fact that the deputy publicly visited the Temple Mount, despite the prohibition of many rabbinical authorities from going there.
"The great ones in Torah are the ones who guide us. And they have all forbidden us to go to the Temple Mount," Yosef said.
He went on to say that those who went to the holy site, such as Ben-Gvir, were "stubborn" and guilty of profaning God's name by contradicting the orders of the great rabbis of the generation.
Yosef said that entering the Temple Mount is a "very serious sin" because most people who go there do not perform the ritual immersion required by religious law before entering certain areas of the holy site.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
