Halakha of the Day | Halakha and Jewish history accessible to all – By Rabbi Yosef Bitton

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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 Raphael Meldola (Livorno 1754- London 1828)

Yosef Bitton - November 9, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - November 11, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

A journey to the heart of Ribbi Yehuda haLevi (1075-1140)

Yosef Bitton - June 18, 2020

Forgotten Giants II

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

Yosef Bitton - January 15, 2019

Forgotten Giants III

SEPHARDIC RABBIS: Rabbi Hayim Carigal (1732-1777) and Yale University

Yosef Bitton - November 4, 2015

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Hayim Vital (1543-1620) and the Dilemma of the True Cabalists

Yosef Bitton - October 9, 2018

Rabbi Emanuel Abohab (1555-1628) and the Jewish “Mental Law”

Yosef Bitton - November 15, 2014

Forgotten Giants III

Emmanuel Hai Ricci (1688-1743)

Yosef Bitton - June 13, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - January 30, 2013

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi David Nieto (1654-1720) and the Sephardic community of London

Yosef Bitton - February 19, 2022

Forgotten Giants III

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

Yosef Bitton - January 27, 2017

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Isaac Canpanton (1360-1463)

Yosef Bitton - November 7, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi David ben Zimra (1479-1573)

Yosef Bitton - November 20, 2013

Forgotten Giants II

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

Yosef Bitton - June 6, 2023

Forgotten Giants III

Rabbi Ya’aqob Kholi (1689-1732) and the book that changed the Sephardic communities

Yosef Bitton - October 23, 2018

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Yehuda Hayyat (d. 1510), and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain

Yosef Bitton - October 21, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Ribbi Abraham Eben Ezra (1089-1164): Tora and Mathematics

Yosef Bitton - June 23, 2020

Forgotten Giants III

Rabbi Moshe Chefetz (or Hefes) 1663-1711

Yosef Bitton - October 17, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Hayim Abulafia (1660-1744), founder of modern Tiberias

Yosef Bitton - December 3, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - August 12, 2015

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

HEBREW & ENGLISH ESSENTIAL HAGGADAH FOR PESACH 2020

April 7, 2022

Singing the Hallel in Yerushalayim

March 9, 2025

Why Four Cups?

March 30, 2024

For the merit of virtuous women the children of Israel were...

March 5, 2018

10 COMMANDMENTS

THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT: Abortion and homicide

August 30, 2016

THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT. Fidelity, and modern society (Part 1).

November 10, 2016

SIXTH COMMANDMENT: You shall not kill or You Shall not murder?

August 29, 2016

THE SECOND COMMANDMENT: Carving images.

July 25, 2013

AMIDA

AMIDA, FOURTH BERAKHA: The Miracle of Human Intelligence

January 30, 2017

AMIDA (Berakha 19) The blessing of Peace

June 30, 2014

AMIDA (Berakha 11) All you need is love

February 20, 2014

Kavana: Understanding the meaning

April 13, 2010

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

Everything you always wanted to know about the Messiah…

August 8, 2022

The 13 principles of Judaism. # 12: The Jewish Messiah

January 3, 2013

10th PRINCIPLE: Living under His sight

February 2, 2016

The 13 principles: # 12: The prerequisites for the Jewish Messiah

November 8, 2012

SCIENCE AND TORA

Two books by the same Author

November 1, 2017

The age of the Earth, according to the book of Job

October 17, 2022

JEWISH WEDDING

The KETUBA and the shirt on the husband’s shoulders

June 24, 2015

List of the Sheba Berakhot

February 11, 2008

TESHUBA

HILKHOT TESHUBA 4:2 When the King repents

August 28, 2013

Urgent vs. Important

August 18, 2015

VIDEO

Are the Ten Commandments still relevant in 2017?

November 22, 2017

Dinosaurs in the Torah? JULY 25, 2017

November 22, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

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

May 16, 2017

Doña Gracia Mendes (Part 2) and the Spanish Bible of Ferrara

June 25, 2022

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

June 27, 2022

NES MOOSSAN: The Aleppo Blood Libel, 1853

June 9, 2022

ISRAEL

The absurdity of UNRWA

February 11, 2024

KING DAVID’S JERUSALEM

January 23, 2026

I ❤️ ISRAEL: The Shadow of Peace — and the News

June 26, 2026

CLASS: Identifying God in times of war

December 26, 2023

SHIDUKHIM

Rabbis and Shidukhim (finding your spouse)

January 6, 2012

The best age to get married

July 5, 2015

Rabbinical Advice on Shidukhim

January 13, 2012

One step down

January 30, 2012

SEGULOT

The Secret to Finding Your Soulmate (shiddukh)

January 12, 2017

The Benefits of Physical Activity, According to Maimonides

January 5, 2017

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

4. The beginning of the rebellion against Rome (44-60 CE)

July 29, 2022

Remembering Jerusalem in celebrations and social events

July 26, 2018

PIRQUE ABOT

Giving the benefit of the doubt…when we should not

May 1, 2015

PIRQE ABOT: Rabbi Yaaqob and the game of the three lives

May 17, 2015