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

Yosef Bitton - May 26, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Who taught rabbi Obadia Yosef?

Yosef Bitton - October 8, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - May 2, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Abraham Zacuto (1452-1515)

Yosef Bitton - November 13, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Raphael Meldola (Livorno 1754- London 1828)

Yosef Bitton - November 9, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Refael Aharon Ben Shimon and the Ashkenazi community of Cairo

Yosef Bitton - May 23, 2018

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Refael Aharon ben Shimon (1847-1928)

Yosef Bitton - January 2, 2013

Forgotten Giants III

Emmanuel Hai Ricci (1688-1743)

Yosef Bitton - June 13, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Don Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508)

Yosef Bitton - May 29, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Menashe Setton (ca. 1810-1876)

Yosef Bitton - July 2, 2014

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Isaac Cardoso (1608-1687)

Yosef Bitton - May 8, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - May 27, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Shemtob Gaguin (1884-1953)

Yosef Bitton - November 7, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Isaac Lampronti (1679–1756)

Yosef Bitton - December 8, 2011

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Shemuel de Medina, head of the Yeshiba of Salonica (1505-1589)

Yosef Bitton - August 5, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Abraham de Sola (London 1825- NY 1882)

Yosef Bitton - November 16, 2011

Forgotten Giants III

Rabbi Yehuda Alqalai (1798-1878) and Modern Zionism

Yosef Bitton - April 24, 2025

Forgotten Giants II

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

Yosef Bitton - February 18, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

Maimonides (1135 -1204). Elitism and Rationalism?

Yosef Bitton - June 25, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - November 14, 2014

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

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

March 5, 2018

Why Four Cups?

March 30, 2024

Slavery, Mud and Straws

April 17, 2019

A Powerful Lesson From the Maror

April 5, 2023

10 COMMANDMENTS

THE SECOND COMMANDMENT: Carving images.

July 25, 2013

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: The difference between honoring and respecting parents

August 22, 2016

THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT: Socialization or strategic planning?

November 14, 2016

THE THIRD COMMANDMENT: Thou shalt not misrepresent Me

July 13, 2016

AMIDA

Understanding the Amida (2nd Berakha)

October 12, 2010

AMIDA (Berakha 15) Praying for the real Messiah

February 27, 2014

AMIDA, FIFTH BERAKHA: Coming back to You

February 1, 2017

AMIDA, TENTH BERAKHA: Jewish People or Jewish Religion?

February 13, 2017

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

12th PRINCIPLE: Was Yeshu the Messiah?

February 11, 2016

8th PRINCIPLE: Presentation of the book Mate Dan, by rabbi David...

January 26, 2016

The Tenth Principle: God knows everything.

August 9, 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

CHUPA: The wedding ring

May 21, 2012

Guidelines for wedding Ceremony

March 10, 2008

TESHUBA

HILKHOT TESHUBA 3:14 Maimonides on Bullying

August 26, 2013

Teshuba and the end of life

September 7, 2011

VIDEO

King Hizqiyah’s Tunnel

December 10, 2017

Are the Ten Commandments still relevant in 2017?

November 22, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

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

May 16, 2017

Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?

October 12, 2015

DOÑA GRACIA MENDES (Part 5) and Yosef Nasi, Lord of Tiberias

May 16, 2017

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

June 26, 2022

ISRAEL

BAMIDBAR: Manna and Humanitarian Aid in Gaza

May 29, 2025

I ❤️ ISRAEL: Embracing Jerusalem’s Chaos

January 23, 2026

THE CASE FOR ISRAEL. Class # 1

March 18, 2020

Gaza, Israel and the slap in the face of President Macron

June 9, 2021

SHIDUKHIM

One step down

January 30, 2012

Rabbis and Shidukhim (finding your spouse)

January 6, 2012

The best age to get married

July 5, 2015

Dating and Lashon haRa

December 13, 2011

SEGULOT

The Benefits of Physical Activity, According to Maimonides

January 5, 2017

The “segula” of Maimonides to enjoy good health

January 4, 2017

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

Pesach in the Bet-HaMiqdash

March 13, 2026

Leaving An Unfinished Wall To Remember The Bet HaMiqdash

August 19, 2019

PIRQUE ABOT

PIRQE ABOT 3:1: The sleeping rider syndrome

May 18, 2016

My most favorite Mishna

May 4, 2026