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Ten Traits of a Truly Happy Person

Yosef Bitton - August 3, 2026

SEGULOT FOR SHIDDUKHIM: One Step Down

Yosef Bitton - July 29, 2026

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

Yosef Bitton - July 29, 2026

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - November 15, 2014

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Abraham Azulay (1570-1643) and the Sultan’s Sword in Hebron

Yosef Bitton - November 2, 2018

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Isaac Cardoso (1608-1687)

Yosef Bitton - May 8, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - June 27, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Moshe Almosnino (Greece 1515-1580)

Yosef Bitton - July 24, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Don Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508)

Yosef Bitton - May 22, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - August 24, 2023

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Menahem de Lonzano (d.1611)

Yosef Bitton - May 1, 2014

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbis Jacob and Isaac Abendana (17th Century)

Yosef Bitton - October 27, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Hayim Nahum (1872-1960)

Yosef Bitton - November 21, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - November 14, 2014

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Shelomo Oliveyra (1635-1708) and the importance of learning Hebrew

Yosef Bitton - March 9, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Yehuda Bibas (1776-1852)

Yosef Bitton - February 2, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - February 10, 2016

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (1605-1693), first rabbi of the Americas

Yosef Bitton - November 19, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Yehuda Bibas (1776-1852) and the independence of Israel

Yosef Bitton - February 22, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - October 21, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ben-Zion Abraham Cuenca (1867-1937)

Yosef Bitton - June 12, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Raphael Karigal (1732-1777)

Yosef Bitton - June 2, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Refael Aharon ben Shimon (1847-1928)

Yosef Bitton - December 26, 2012

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

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

March 5, 2018

Slavery, Mud and Straws

April 17, 2019

What does the word Pesach really mean?

March 27, 2020

Singing the Hallel in Yerushalayim

March 9, 2025

10 COMMANDMENTS

The Magic Word of the First Commandment

February 11, 2020

THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT: Yihud, protecting conjugal fidelity

November 9, 2016

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: Honoring our parents

August 23, 2016

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT: God exists or God is in charge?

May 30, 2013

AMIDA

AMIDA (Berakha 12) Religious and Political Betrayal

February 21, 2014

AMIDA, TENTH BERAKHA: Jewish People or Jewish Religion?

February 13, 2017

AMIDA, EIGHTH BERAKHA: A Prayer for Good Health and Healing

February 8, 2017

AMIDA (berakha 13) Take care of those who take care of...

February 24, 2014

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

12th PRINCIPLE : what do we know about the messianic times?

February 15, 2016

5th PRINCIPLE: Praying exclusively to HaShem

January 11, 2016

4th Principle: God is Eternal

January 11, 2016

The 13 Principles of Judaism: #12: Messianic age.

January 10, 2013

SCIENCE AND TORA

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

October 17, 2022

BERESHIT: What was God’s last creation?

September 21, 2021

JEWISH WEDDING

HUPA: Why the ring?

June 11, 2012

The seven days of celebration

June 30, 2021

TESHUBA

Rosh Chodesh Elul

August 31, 2011

HILKHOT TESHUBA 2:10: Unilateral forgiveness

August 30, 2012

VIDEO

Creation and Big Bang

November 22, 2017

Are the Ten Commandments still relevant in 2017?

November 22, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

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

June 24, 2022

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

June 25, 2022

Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?

October 12, 2015

NES MOOSSAN: The Aleppo Blood Libel, 1853

June 9, 2022

ISRAEL

SHELACH LEKHA: Defeatism and the Jews

July 15, 2024

Israel’s Supreme Court and the Upcoming Judicial Reform

January 17, 2023

KORACH: How Do You Measure Victory in the Middle East?

June 27, 2025

החזירו אותם הביתה או שלח את עמי?

August 25, 2025

SHIDUKHIM

Dating and Lashon haRa

December 13, 2011

Rabbis and Shidukhim (finding your spouse)

January 6, 2012

Choosing your future spouse, with your head and your heart

June 15, 2021

SEGULOT FOR SHIDDUKHIM: One Step Down

July 29, 2026

SEGULOT

The “segula” of Maimonides to enjoy good health

January 4, 2017

The infallible Segula of Abba Hilqiya

May 3, 2025

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

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

July 29, 2022

5. Tisha beAb and the Great Rebellion of 66 (CE)

July 25, 2017

PIRQUE ABOT

How to be poor for the rest of your life?

May 12, 2023

PIRQE ABOT 4:22 The afterlife and the library

May 18, 2015