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

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TISHA BEAV: What happened on the 9th of Av?

Yosef Bitton - July 19, 2026

SHABBAT CHAZON: Does God Reside Only in His Temple?

Yosef Bitton - July 19, 2026

The Week of Tisha BeAv: Laws and Customs

Yosef Bitton - July 19, 2026

Sephardic Rabbis

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Forgotten Giants II

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

Yosef Bitton - November 19, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Raphael Meldola (Livorno 1754- London 1828)

Yosef Bitton - November 9, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Yosef Hayon (15th Century, Portugal)

Yosef Bitton - February 19, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Abraham de Sola (1825–1882) the Sephardic pioneer of Tora UMada.

Yosef Bitton - May 1, 2017

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - June 23, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ben-Zion Cuenca (1867-1937) And The Hebron Massacre Of 1929

Yosef Bitton - January 18, 2021

Sephardic Rabbis

Don Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508)

Yosef Bitton - May 29, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi David Aaaron de Sola (1796-1860)

Yosef Bitton - June 24, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Menahem de Lonzano (d.1611)

Yosef Bitton - May 1, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Israel Najara (1555-1625) and the Jobar Synagogue

Yosef Bitton - June 14, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ya’aqob Ibn Habib (1460-1516)

Yosef Bitton - October 23, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi David ben Zimra (1479-1573)

Yosef Bitton - November 20, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Abraham Zacuto (1452-1515)

Yosef Bitton - November 13, 2013

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Ya’aqob Sasportas (1610-1698)

Yosef Bitton - January 1, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - May 2, 2012

FORGOTTEN GIANTS 3

Rabbi Isaac Abendana (1640-1699), professor at Cambridge University

Yosef Bitton - November 16, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

The Leadership of Rabbi Obadia Yosef z”l

Yosef Bitton - October 9, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Refael Aharon Ben Shimon and the Ashkenazi community of Cairo

Yosef Bitton - May 23, 2018

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - June 29, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

The Last Days of Maimonides

Yosef Bitton - July 1, 2020

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

The Forgotten Ingredient of the Haroset

April 5, 2020

Egypt and the Zoo. By Shemuel Bitton

January 17, 2019

A Powerful Lesson From the Maror

April 5, 2023

WHAT SHOULD YOU DO TO MAKE YOUR SEDER MORE ENGAGING?

April 5, 2022

10 COMMANDMENTS

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: Honoring our parents

August 23, 2016

10 COMMANDMENTS: How come we don’t know them better?

June 28, 2016

What Is The First Commandment Teaching Us?

May 22, 2019

FIRST COMMANDMENT: We, the People?

May 9, 2013

AMIDA

AMIDA, ELEVENTH BERAKHA: The End of a Broken Judicial System

February 14, 2017

AMIDA (Berakha 07), HaShem, our next of kin

February 7, 2014

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

February 2, 2017

AMIDA, FOURTH BERAKHA: The Miracle of Human Intelligence

January 30, 2017

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

The 13 Principles of Judaism: # 10. God knows everything.

October 18, 2012

Practical Monotheism

November 29, 2011

THE 13 Principles: # 12: Messianic times.

January 17, 2013

13 PRINCIPLES: The right way of thinking about God

November 17, 2015

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

The “best man” or shushbinim

July 30, 2012

TESHUBA

Urgent vs. Important

August 18, 2015

ROSH CHODESH ELUL: The process of Teshuba

August 11, 2010

VIDEO

King Hizqiyah’s Tunnel

December 10, 2017

Dinosaurs in the Torah? JULY 25, 2017

November 22, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

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

June 27, 2022

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

May 16, 2017

Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?

October 12, 2015

NES MOOSSAN: The Aleppo Blood Libel, 1853

June 9, 2022

ISRAEL

What did Ezekiel see?

April 25, 2023

How Can Israel Reach A Lasting Peace Agreement With Hamas?

May 26, 2021

איך אומרים ציונית בעברית ?

July 7, 2024

THE CASE FOR ISRAEL. Class # 1

March 18, 2020

SHIDUKHIM

The best age to get married

July 5, 2015

One step down

January 30, 2012

Dating and Lashon haRa

December 13, 2011

Rabbis and Shidukhim (finding your spouse)

January 6, 2012

SEGULOT

The Benefits of Physical Activity, According to Maimonides

January 5, 2017

The most powerful SEGULA

May 20, 2013

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

Pesach in the Bet-HaMiqdash

March 13, 2026

HATSIPOREN: The Perfume of the Sea

May 7, 2018

PIRQUE ABOT

How to be poor for the rest of your life?

May 12, 2023

PIRQE ABOT: Who wants to be a Hasid?

April 27, 2015