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BEHALOTEKHA: More therapy or more responsibilities?

Yosef Bitton - June 5, 2026

BEHAALOTEKHA: The anxiety of having it all

Yosef Bitton - June 5, 2026

NASO: Sotah and the Art of Marital Fidelity

Yosef Bitton - May 27, 2026

Sephardic Rabbis

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Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Shelomo Alqabets (1500-1580), author of Lekha Dodi

Yosef Bitton - August 12, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Hasday Crescas (1340-1411)

Yosef Bitton - December 10, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Tam ibn Yahia (1475-1542) and the fire in Constantinopla

Yosef Bitton - May 27, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - November 27, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Maran Rabbi Yosef Caro (1488-1575)

Yosef Bitton - October 2, 2013

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Ya’aqob Castro (1525-1612) and the Jewish community of Egypt

Yosef Bitton - January 15, 2019

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ya’aqob Berab (1474-1546) and the renewal of Rabbinic ordination

Yosef Bitton - January 15, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Menashe Setton (ca. 1810-1876)

Yosef Bitton - July 2, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

RIBBI SAADIA BENZAQUEN: Rabbi of Rabbis 

Yosef Bitton - May 14, 2025

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Abraham Saba (1440-1508) and the Island of Alligators

Yosef Bitton - November 11, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Recommended classic Jewish books

Yosef Bitton - May 28, 2019

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Isaac Canpanton (1360-1463)

Yosef Bitton - November 7, 2014

Forgotten Giants III

Emmanuel Hai Ricci (1688-1743)

Yosef Bitton - June 13, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - June 29, 2020

Forgotten Giants III

Rabbi Hayim Ben Attar (1696- 1743) and the power of the Grandparents

Yosef Bitton - January 27, 2017

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Yishaq ben Walid (1777-1870)

Yosef Bitton - November 14, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi David Pardo (1718-1790)

Yosef Bitton - May 16, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Raphael Karigal (1732-1777)

Yosef Bitton - June 2, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Shelomo Serilio (ca. 1485-1555) and the Talmud of Jerusalem

Yosef Bitton - February 11, 2015

Forgotten Giants II

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

Yosef Bitton - June 6, 2023

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

The beginnings of Antisemitism: DEMONIZATION

January 11, 2016

Why Haroset? Four Answers

April 5, 2020

The Forgotten Ingredient of the Haroset

April 5, 2020

The Fifth Cup, and Eliyahu haNabi

March 23, 2025

10 COMMANDMENTS

YITRO: Serving God or Using God?

February 8, 2025

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: One God vs. Moral relativism

June 20, 2013

SIXTH COMMANDMENT: Killing vs Mudering

June 25, 2014

SIXTH COMMANDMENT: Abortion and genetic diseases

August 31, 2016

AMIDA

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

February 14, 2017

AMIDA, FOURTH BERAKHA: The Miracle of Human Intelligence

January 30, 2017

AMIDA, NINTH BERAKHA: The Benefits and Risks of Material Abundance

February 9, 2017

AMIDA (Berakha 17) Prayers or sacrifices?

June 9, 2014

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

8th PRINCIPLE: The journey from the Written Tora to the halakhic...

January 27, 2016

PRINCIPLE 11: God is just

August 16, 2012

The 13 Principles: # 11: God is Just.

October 25, 2012

THE 13 PRINCIPLES. # 7. Moshe reached the highest level of...

May 17, 2012

SCIENCE AND TORA

Dinosaurs and the Bible

June 5, 2013

BERESHIT: What was God’s last creation?

September 21, 2021

JEWISH WEDDING

What is the Ketuba? Chapter 2

June 20, 2015

The First Mitzvah of the Torah

June 17, 2011

TESHUBA

HILKHOT TESHUBA 2:1: Forgiveness and quality of life

August 21, 2013

Urgent vs. Important

August 18, 2015

VIDEO

Are the Ten Commandments still relevant in 2017?

November 22, 2017

Creation and Big Bang

November 22, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

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

May 16, 2017

NES MOOSSAN: The Aleppo Blood Libel, 1853

June 9, 2022

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

June 24, 2022

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

June 27, 2022

ISRAEL

THE BEST RESPONSE TO THE TERROR KITES

June 6, 2018

Understanding the Never-Ending Palestinian Conflict

March 1, 2025

MATTOT – MAS’E: Tora and Human Sacrifices

July 25, 2025

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

April 15, 2022

SHIDUKHIM

Choosing your future spouse, with your head and your heart

June 15, 2021

Rabbinical Advice on Shidukhim

January 13, 2012

Rabbis and Shidukhim (finding your spouse)

January 6, 2012

The best age to get married

July 5, 2015

SEGULOT

The Best Antidote Against Memory Loss

January 9, 2017

A Simple Formula for Getting Rich

January 16, 2017

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

POST 9 AB: The delicate balance between mourning and celebration

July 24, 2018

Remembering Jerusalem in celebrations and social events

July 26, 2018

PIRQUE ABOT

PIRQE ABOT 3:1: Integrity, without exceptions

May 18, 2016

PIRQE ABOT 1:1: On Justice and Education

May 3, 2016