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SUKKOT 5787: When the First Day of Sukkot Falls on Shabbat

Yosef Bitton - September 22, 2026

SUKKOT: The Lulab and the Etrog

Yosef Bitton - September 22, 2026

SUKKOT: The Clouds That Protect Israel

Yosef Bitton - September 22, 2026

Sephardic Rabbis

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Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - November 27, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi David ben Zimra (1479-1573) and the Ethiopian Jews

Yosef Bitton - February 23, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - May 26, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - August 24, 2023

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ytzhaq Nissim (1895-1981)

Yosef Bitton - August 1, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Levi Ibn Habib and the rabbinical ordination debate

Yosef Bitton - September 29, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ya’aqob Kholi (1689-1732)

Yosef Bitton - February 12, 2014

Forgotten Giants

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

Yosef Bitton - March 14, 2017

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Ya’aqob Kholi (1689-1732) and the book that changed the Sephardic communities

Yosef Bitton - October 23, 2018

Sephardic Rabbis

The Last Days of Maimonides

Yosef Bitton - July 1, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Hayim Nahum (1872-1960)

Yosef Bitton - November 21, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

SEPHARDIC RABBIS: Isaac Shemuel Reggio (1784-1855)

Yosef Bitton - May 9, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

RIBBI SAADIA BENZAQUEN: Rabbi of Rabbis 

Yosef Bitton - May 14, 2025

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - May 27, 2015

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Yom Tob Tsahalon, Purim and the First Book Ever Printed In Israel

Yosef Bitton - March 5, 2023

Sephardic Rabbis

Recommended classic Jewish books

Yosef Bitton - May 28, 2019

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Israel Moshe Hazan (1808-1863)

Yosef Bitton - June 19, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - June 14, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - February 22, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Isaac Canpanton (1360-1463)

Yosef Bitton - November 7, 2014

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

The Fifth Cup, and Eliyahu haNabi

March 23, 2025

The Forgotten Ingredient of the Haroset

April 5, 2020

Why do we recline at the Seder?

April 3, 2022

TALKING POINTS FOR THE SEDER

April 8, 2025

10 COMMANDMENTS

NINTH COMMANDMENT: Lie and Don’t Feel Guilty

November 30, 2016

SIXTH COMMANDMENT: Abortion and genetic diseases

August 31, 2016

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: The difference between honoring and respecting parents

August 22, 2016

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT and the Golden Calf

July 4, 2016

AMIDA

AMIDA (Berakha 04), the miracle of intelligent life

January 30, 2014

AMIDA, TENTH BERAKHA: Jewish People or Jewish Religion?

February 13, 2017

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

January 23, 2014

AMIDA, SEVENTH BERAKHA: Goel, our next of kin

February 6, 2017

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

The 13 principles of Jewish faith: # 4 God is eternal...

January 17, 2012

The 13 principles: # 12: The prerequisites for the Jewish Messiah

November 8, 2012

13 PRINCIPLES: Why do we Jews believe in God?

October 20, 2015

PRINCIPLE 11: God is just

August 16, 2012

SCIENCE AND TORA

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

October 17, 2022

Dinosaurs and the Bible

June 5, 2013

JEWISH WEDDING

WEDDING CEREMONY

February 25, 2008

The ancient origins of the Jewish wedding ceremony

June 15, 2015

TESHUBA

Repentance and verbal confession

September 1, 2011

Teshuba and Jiminy the cricket

September 22, 2013

VIDEO

Are the Ten Commandments still relevant in 2017?

November 22, 2017

King Hizqiyah’s Tunnel

December 10, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

NES MOOSSAN: The Aleppo Blood Libel, 1853

June 9, 2022

Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?

October 12, 2015

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

June 26, 2022

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

May 16, 2017

ISRAEL

BALAQ: The Prophet Bilam and Radical Islam

June 26, 2026

UNRWA: What sets Palestinian refugees apart from all other refugees in...

February 8, 2024

What did Zekharia see?

April 20, 2023

The Three Most Frightening Words Of Tehilim

May 14, 2021

SHIDUKHIM

One step down

January 30, 2012

SEGULOT FOR SHIDDUKHIM ” Easy going”

July 29, 2026

Dating and Lashon haRa

December 13, 2011

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

July 29, 2026

SEGULOT

The Secret to Finding Your Soulmate (shiddukh)

January 12, 2017

The Best Antidote Against Memory Loss

January 9, 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

PIRQE ABOT: What does it mean?

May 27, 2011

PIRQE ABOT 1:1: On Justice and Education

May 3, 2016