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I ❤️ ISRAEL: The Challenge of Fasting in Israel

Yosef Bitton - July 4, 2026

I ❤️ ISRAEL: The Farm on the Hill

Yosef Bitton - July 4, 2026

I ❤️ ISRAEL: Back to the Shomron

Yosef Bitton - July 4, 2026

Sephardic Rabbis

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Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Obadia Yosef and the power of Halakhic leniency

Yosef Bitton - October 10, 2013

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Yom Tob Tsahalon, Purim and the First Book Ever Printed In Israel

Yosef Bitton - March 5, 2023

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Abraham de Sola (1825–1882) the Sephardic pioneer of Tora UMada.

Yosef Bitton - May 1, 2017

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Hayim Habib (1882-1945)

Yosef Bitton - May 21, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

The Last Days of Maimonides

Yosef Bitton - July 1, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Isaac Caro (1458-1535), from Toledo to Yerushalayim

Yosef Bitton - November 27, 2014

FORGOTTEN GIANTS 3

Rabbi Isaac Abendana (1640-1699), professor at Cambridge University

Yosef Bitton - November 16, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Eliyahu Hazan: The first Sephardic Bat-Mitzva

Yosef Bitton - February 6, 2013

Forgotten Giants III

Rabbi Yishma’el haCohen (1723-1811)

Yosef Bitton - July 12, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Raphael Karigal (1732-1777)

Yosef Bitton - June 2, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ben-Zion Abraham Cuenca (1867-1937)

Yosef Bitton - June 12, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Israel Moshe Hazan (1808-1863)

Yosef Bitton - June 19, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

RIBBI SAADIA BENZAQUEN: Rabbi of Rabbis 

Yosef Bitton - May 14, 2025

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Eliyahu Hazan (1846-1908) and the Role of Secular Studies

Yosef Bitton - January 30, 2013

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Isaac Cardoso (1608-1687)

Yosef Bitton - May 8, 2014

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Menashe ben Israel (1604-1657) the most famous Jew in the world

Yosef Bitton - June 6, 2023

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Refael Aharon Ben Shimon and the Ashkenazi community of Cairo

Yosef Bitton - May 23, 2018

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Benzion Frizzi (1756-1844) And How Do You Say In Talmudic Hebrew “Bacteria”?

Yosef Bitton - May 2, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Maimonides (1135-1204), Sultan Saladin’s Personal Physician

Yosef Bitton - June 29, 2020

FORGOTTEN GIANTS 3

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto (1565-1648), rabbi of Damascus, Siria.

Yosef Bitton - January 7, 2015

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

How To Drink Four Cups Without Getting drunk?

April 4, 2022

What does the word Pesach really mean?

March 27, 2020

The Exquisite Historical Precision Of The Biblical Account

July 9, 2019

HEBREW & ENGLISH ESSENTIAL HAGGADAH FOR PESACH 2020

April 7, 2022

10 COMMANDMENTS

SEVENTH COMMANDMENT: Boundaries in Relating to the Opposite Sex

November 15, 2016

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: The way to honoring our parents

August 24, 2016

THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT: The two aspects of Shabbat.

July 20, 2016

THE THIRD COMMANDMENT: You shall not invoke His name in vain

July 14, 2016

AMIDA

AMIDA, SEVENTH BERAKHA: Goel, our next of kin

February 6, 2017

AMIDA, ELEVENTH BERAKHA: The End of a Broken Judicial System

February 14, 2017

AMIDA (Berakha 02) God’s powers and Evolution theory

January 23, 2014

AMIDA (Berakha 17) Prayers or sacrifices?

June 9, 2014

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

THE 13 Principles: # 12: Messianic times.

January 17, 2013

13 PRINCIPLES: Monotheism vs. Syncrethysm

November 3, 2015

9th PRINCIPLE: Can the Tora be changed or replaced?

February 1, 2016

The 13 Principles: # 3 God does not have a body...

January 9, 2012

SCIENCE AND TORA

Dinosaurs and the Bible

June 5, 2013

BERESHIT: What was God’s last creation?

September 21, 2021

JEWISH WEDDING

When should the Sheba Berakhot be recited?

December 19, 2020

Fasting on the wedding day

August 6, 2012

TESHUBA

SELIHOT: The 13 attributes of God’s compassion

August 13, 2010

TESHUBA: Obstacles, on the way to repentance

September 3, 2015

VIDEO

King Hizqiyah’s Tunnel

December 10, 2017

Are the Ten Commandments still relevant in 2017?

November 22, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

DOÑA GRACIA (Part 4) and the Jewish Boycott against Ancona, Italy

June 27, 2022

Doña Gracia Mendes (Part 1): Rescuing Jewish refugees from Spain and...

June 24, 2022

Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?

October 12, 2015

DOÑA GRACIA MENDES (Part 6) and a Jewish State in 1564

May 16, 2017

ISRAEL

YOM HAATZMAUT: From Tikvatenu to Hatikva

April 23, 2025

I ❤️ ISRAEL: Bread and Jerusalem

July 7, 2023

The New Reality Of The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

May 13, 2021

NITSABIM: How do You Say “ZIONISM” in Biblical Hebrew?

April 15, 2022

SHIDUKHIM

Rabbis and Shidukhim (finding your spouse)

January 6, 2012

Rabbinical Advice on Shidukhim

January 13, 2012

The best age to get married

July 5, 2015

One step down

January 30, 2012

SEGULOT

The “segula” of Maimonides to enjoy good health

January 4, 2017

The Benefits of Physical Activity, According to Maimonides

January 5, 2017

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

Pesach in the Bet-HaMiqdash

March 13, 2026

POST 9 AB: The delicate balance between mourning and celebration

July 24, 2018

PIRQUE ABOT

PIRQE ABOT 4:22 The afterlife and the library

May 18, 2015

My most favorite Mishna

May 4, 2026