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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 Don Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508)

Yosef Bitton - May 22, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - January 15, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbenu Bahiya Ibn Paquda (1045-1120) and the duties of the heart

Yosef Bitton - June 16, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Yishaq ben Walid (1777-1870)

Yosef Bitton - November 14, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Hayim Palachi (1788-1869)

Yosef Bitton - November 28, 2012

Forgotten Giants III

Rabbi Ya’aqob Yehuda León (1602-1675) and his translation of Tehilim

Yosef Bitton - February 17, 2016

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Binyamin Musafia (1606-1675)

Yosef Bitton - February 5, 2014

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Ya’aqob Sasportas (1610-1698)

Yosef Bitton - January 1, 2014

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 Saba (1440-1508) and the Island of Alligators

Yosef Bitton - November 11, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Shimon Duran (1361-1444) and his commentary to Pirqe about

Yosef Bitton - April 15, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

SEPHARDIC RABBIS: Isaac Shemuel Reggio (1784-1855)

Yosef Bitton - May 9, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Moshe Alashqar (1466-1542)

Yosef Bitton - November 6, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh mi-Modena (Venice 1571–1648)

Yosef Bitton - December 2, 2011

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Ya’aqob Yehuda León (1602-1675) builds a Bet haMiqdash

Yosef Bitton - February 18, 2016

FORGOTTEN GIANTS 3

Rabbi Hayim haCohen (1585-1655) and the pirates who stole books

Yosef Bitton - April 25, 2025

Sephardic Rabbis

SEPHARDIC RABBIS: Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (1880-1953)

Yosef Bitton - June 27, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ya’aqob Meir (1856-1939) First Sephardic Chief Rabbi Of Israel

Yosef Bitton - August 24, 2023

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Refael Aharon ben Shimon (1847-1928)

Yosef Bitton - December 26, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Menahem de Lonzano (d.1611)

Yosef Bitton - May 1, 2014

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

The Fifth Cup, and Eliyahu haNabi

March 23, 2025

Pesach Trivia for the Seder

March 9, 2026

The Exquisite Historical Precision Of The Biblical Account

July 9, 2019

More ideas and educational material for a succesful Seder

April 6, 2017

10 COMMANDMENTS

NINTH COMMANDMENT: How to Run Your Business by The Book

November 29, 2016

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

November 10, 2016

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: The way to honoring our parents

August 24, 2016

TENTH COMMANDMENT: You Shall Not Covet

December 5, 2016

AMIDA

AMIDA (Berakha 09) , “Make us rich… but save us...

February 13, 2014

AMIDA, TWELFTH BERAKHA: Protect Us from Treason and Betrayal

February 19, 2017

AMIDA, THIRTEENTH BERAKHA: Protect those who protect us

February 22, 2017

AMIDA, FOURTEENTH BERAKHA: Jerusalem, a city and its soul

February 22, 2017

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

13 PRINCIPLES: Why do we Jews believe in God?

October 20, 2015

The principles of Jewish Faith: # 4 “(Only) God is eternal”...

January 24, 2012

Practical Monotheism

November 29, 2011

Everything you always wanted to know about the Messiah…

August 8, 2022

SCIENCE AND TORA

BERESHIT: What was God’s last creation?

September 21, 2021

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

October 17, 2022

JEWISH WEDDING

The ancient origins of the Jewish wedding ceremony

June 15, 2015

Gold, silver, and stones

June 18, 2012

TESHUBA

HILKHOT TESHUBA 2:10. Why should we forgive? (part 7)

September 22, 2016

VIDUY: Becoming aware of our misdeeds

August 25, 2010

VIDEO

Creation and Big Bang

November 22, 2017

King Hizqiyah’s Tunnel

December 10, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?

October 12, 2015

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

May 16, 2017

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

June 27, 2022

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

June 25, 2022

ISRAEL

I ❤️ ISRAEL: The Western Wall and Aladdin’s Lamp Syndrome

June 30, 2023

“Maimonides and the Hostages Deal”, Miami FL, Jan 23, 2025

February 4, 2025

KING DAVID’S JERUSALEM

January 23, 2026

Historic Speech by Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

May 10, 2024

SHIDUKHIM

Choosing your future spouse, with your head and your heart

June 15, 2021

Dating and Lashon haRa

December 13, 2011

One step down

January 30, 2012

Rabbis and Shidukhim (finding your spouse)

January 6, 2012

SEGULOT

The Secret to Finding Your Soulmate (shiddukh)

January 12, 2017

The Best Antidote Against Memory Loss

January 9, 2017

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

Leaving An Unfinished Wall To Remember The Bet HaMiqdash

August 19, 2019

HATSIPOREN: The Perfume of the Sea

May 7, 2018

PIRQUE ABOT

Pirqe Abot 1:7, friendship and second-hand smoke

April 10, 2013

Pirqe Abot 2:2, Rabban Gamliel vs. Intellectual Arrogance

April 11, 2013