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

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NOACH: Noah’s Ark, 2026 Edition

Yosef Bitton - October 16, 2026

NOACH: The Discovery of Death

Yosef Bitton - October 16, 2026

SUMMARY OF PARASHAT NOACH

Yosef Bitton - October 16, 2026

Sephardic Rabbis

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Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Abraham Antebi (1765-1858) and the earthquake that devastated Aleppo

Yosef Bitton - March 14, 2017

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ya’aqob Ibn Habib (1460-1516)

Yosef Bitton - October 22, 2014

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Obadia de Bertinoro (1455-1515), from Italy to Jerusalem

Yosef Bitton - January 25, 2022

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Yehuda Alqalai (1798-1878) and Modern Zionism

Yosef Bitton - April 24, 2025

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - November 27, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Isaac Lampronti (1679–1756)

Yosef Bitton - December 8, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Shelomo ibn Verga (ca. 1460-1540) and “La vara de Yehuda”

Yosef Bitton - November 14, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Refael Aharon ben Shimon (1847-1928)

Yosef Bitton - January 2, 2013

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Isaac Delouya (d.ca. 1572), the first Sephardic rabbi in Morocco

Yosef Bitton - August 15, 2026

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Gershom Mendes Seixas: The First Native-Born U.S. Rabbi

Yosef Bitton - May 26, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - June 29, 2020

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Ya’akob Hajez (1620-1674)

Yosef Bitton - July 31, 2013

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Moshe Chefetz (or Hefes) 1663-1711

Yosef Bitton - October 17, 2012

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Binyamin Musafia (1606-1675)

Yosef Bitton - February 5, 2014

Forgotten Giants

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

Yosef Bitton - April 25, 2025

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Shemuel Laniado (1530-1610) and the pearls beneath the fish

Yosef Bitton - May 12, 2025

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - November 11, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - January 15, 2014

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Portaleone And The Four-Hours A Day Tora Curriculum

Yosef Bitton - February 2, 2022

Sephardic Rabbis

The last words of Isaac de Castro Tartas (1623-1647)

Yosef Bitton - February 10, 2016

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

Slavery, Mud and Straws

April 17, 2019

Why do we recline at the Seder?

April 3, 2022

Why Four Cups?

March 30, 2024

Egypt and the Zoo. By Shemuel Bitton

January 17, 2019

10 COMMANDMENTS

The Game of the Ten Commandments.

February 3, 2020

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

August 29, 2016

SEVENTH COMMANDMENT: Boundaries in Relating to the Opposite Sex

November 15, 2016

SIXTH COMMANDMENT: You shall not murder and organ donation

September 1, 2016

AMIDA

AMIDA (Berakha 05) The gift of repentance

February 4, 2014

AMIDA (berakha 14), Yerushalayim, a city and its soul

February 25, 2014

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

January 23, 2014

AMIDA, SIXTH BERAKHA: How Many Times Will God Forgive Me?

February 2, 2017

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

The 13 principles of Jewish faith: # 6: the mission of...

February 28, 2012

13 PRINCIPLES: How many idols did Abraham destroy?

November 10, 2015

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

January 24, 2012

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

May 17, 2012

SCIENCE AND TORA

Dinosaurs and the Bible

June 5, 2013

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

October 17, 2022

JEWISH WEDDING

WEDDING CEREMONY

February 25, 2008

Ketuba Nusach Mashad

February 14, 2008

TESHUBA

TESHUBA, in front of a camera

September 3, 2014

HILKHOT TESHUBA: 1:1. The ultimate regret

August 21, 2012

VIDEO

Creation and Big Bang

November 22, 2017

King Hizqiyah’s Tunnel

December 10, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

DOÑA GRACIA MENDES (Part 3). In Constantinople, under the auspices of...

June 26, 2022

Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?

October 12, 2015

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

June 25, 2022

NES MOOSSAN: The Aleppo Blood Libel, 1853

June 9, 2022

ISRAEL

BEHAR-BECHUQOTAY: Why Rabbi Teichtal Changed His Mind About Zionism?

May 28, 2024

BAMIDBAR: Manna and Humanitarian Aid in Gaza

May 29, 2025

YOM HAATZMAUT: What did Isaiah see?

April 24, 2025

איך אומרים ציונית בעברית ?

July 7, 2024

SHIDUKHIM

The best age to get married

July 5, 2015

SEGULOT FOR SHIDDUKHIM Don’t fall in love with a picture

July 29, 2026

SEGULOT FOR SHIDDUKHIM: One Step Down

July 29, 2026

One step down

January 30, 2012

SEGULOT

The Secret to Finding Your Soulmate (shiddukh)

January 12, 2017

What can we do so HaShem listens to our prayers?

January 2, 2017

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

HATSORI: The Perfume of the Messiah

May 4, 2018

Remembering Jerusalem in celebrations and social events

July 26, 2018

PIRQUE ABOT

How to be poor for the rest of your life?

May 12, 2023

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

May 17, 2015