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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 Yehuda Alqalai (1798-1878)

Yosef Bitton - August 8, 2012

FORGOTTEN GIANTS 3

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

Yosef Bitton - April 25, 2025

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Moshe Almosnino (Greece 1515-1580)

Yosef Bitton - July 24, 2013

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Hayim Benveniste (1603-1674) and the false Messiah Shabbetai Zevi

Yosef Bitton - November 2, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - October 21, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh mi-Modena (Venice 1571–1648)

Yosef Bitton - December 2, 2011

FORGOTTEN GIANTS 3

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto (1565-1648), rabbi of Damascus, Siria.

Yosef Bitton - January 7, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Maimonides (1135 -1204). Elitism and Rationalism?

Yosef Bitton - June 25, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi David Aaaron de Sola (1796-1860)

Yosef Bitton - June 24, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - November 27, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Hayim Habib (1882-1945)

Yosef Bitton - May 21, 2014

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

Yosef Bitton - November 15, 2014

Forgotten Giants III

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

Yosef Bitton - March 14, 2017

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Menahem de Lonzano (d.1611)

Yosef Bitton - May 1, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Refael Aharon Ben Shimon and the Ashkenazi community of Cairo

Yosef Bitton - May 23, 2018

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Isaac Cardoso (1608-1687)

Yosef Bitton - May 8, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Obadia Yosef and the power of Halakhic leniency

Yosef Bitton - October 10, 2013

Forgotten Giants II

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

Yosef Bitton - March 9, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ya’aqob Ibn Habib (1460-1516)

Yosef Bitton - October 23, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Yosef Hayon (15th Century, Portugal)

Yosef Bitton - February 19, 2014

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

The beginnings of Antisemitism: DEMONIZATION

January 11, 2016

The Forgotten Ingredient of the Haroset

April 5, 2020

HEBREW & ENGLISH ESSENTIAL HAGGADAH FOR PESACH 2020

April 7, 2022

Why Four Cups?

March 30, 2024

10 COMMANDMENTS

TENTH COMMANDMENT: What Is The Opposite Of Envy?

December 14, 2016

THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT: You shall not commit adultery

November 7, 2016

NINTH COMMANDMENT: Lie and Don’t Feel Guilty

November 30, 2016

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

August 29, 2016

AMIDA

AMIDA (Berakha 09) , “Make us rich… but save us...

February 13, 2014

AMIDA, NINTH BERAKHA: The Benefits and Risks of Material Abundance

February 9, 2017

AMIDA, FIFTH BERAKHA: Coming back to You

February 1, 2017

AMIDA (Berakha 08) HaShem is the ultimate Healer

February 10, 2014

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

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

January 17, 2012

13 PRINCIPLES: The right way of thinking about God

November 17, 2015

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

October 18, 2012

Practical Monotheism

November 29, 2011

SCIENCE AND TORA

Two books by the same Author

November 1, 2017

Dinosaurs and the Bible

June 5, 2013

JEWISH WEDDING

The ring

June 18, 2015

Dating and Lashon haRa

December 13, 2011

TESHUBA

TESHUBA: What’s in a word?

August 16, 2010

HILKHOT TESHUBA 2:1: Forgiveness and quality of life

August 21, 2013

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

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

May 16, 2017

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

June 27, 2022

NES MOOSSAN: The Aleppo Blood Libel, 1853

June 9, 2022

ISRAEL

The absurdity of UNRWA

February 11, 2024

SHELACH LEKHA: Defeatism and the Jews

July 15, 2024

President Trump’s Plan For Gaza

September 29, 2025

How Can Israel Reach A Lasting Peace Agreement With Hamas?

May 26, 2021

SHIDUKHIM

Choosing your future spouse, with your head and your heart

June 15, 2021

One step down

January 30, 2012

The best age to get married

July 5, 2015

Rabbinical Advice on Shidukhim

January 13, 2012

SEGULOT

The Benefits of Physical Activity, According to Maimonides

January 5, 2017

The Best Antidote Against Memory Loss

January 9, 2017

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

HATSIPOREN: The Perfume of the Sea

May 7, 2018

Leaving An Unfinished Wall To Remember The Bet HaMiqdash

August 19, 2019

PIRQUE ABOT

PIRQE ABOT 1:1: On Justice and Education

May 3, 2016

PIRQE ABOT: Giving the benefit of the doubt, unlimited

April 30, 2015