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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 Obadia ben Ya’aqob Yosef z”l, 1920-2013

Yosef Bitton - October 7, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Obadia Yosef and the power of Halakhic leniency

Yosef Bitton - October 10, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Moshe Capsali 1420-1495

Yosef Bitton - June 25, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Don Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508)

Yosef Bitton - May 29, 2013

Forgotten Giants II

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

Yosef Bitton - February 18, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - December 2, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Isaac Abulafia (1830-1910) and the Education of the Jews of Damascus

Yosef Bitton - December 29, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Hayim Nahum (1872-1960)

Yosef Bitton - November 21, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - June 29, 2020

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi David Messer Leon (1470-1526)

Yosef Bitton - January 22, 2014

FORGOTTEN GIANTS 3

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

Yosef Bitton - April 25, 2025

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Menahem de Lonzano (d.1611)

Yosef Bitton - May 1, 2014

Forgotten Giants III

Rabbi Hayim Ben Attar (1696- 1743) and the power of the Grandparents

Yosef Bitton - January 27, 2017

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Shimon Duran (1361-1444) and his commentary to Pirqe about

Yosef Bitton - April 15, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

RIBBI SAADIA BENZAQUEN: Rabbi of Rabbis 

Yosef Bitton - May 14, 2025

Forgotten Giants II

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

Yosef Bitton - November 19, 2015

FORGOTTEN GIANTS 3

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

Yosef Bitton - November 16, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Hayim Habib (1882-1945)

Yosef Bitton - May 21, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Abraham de Sola (London 1825- NY 1882)

Yosef Bitton - November 16, 2011

Forgotten Giants II

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

Yosef Bitton - November 2, 2016

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

The Role of Women in the Exodus Story

March 5, 2021

More ideas and educational material for a succesful Seder

April 6, 2017

Egypt and the Zoo. By Shemuel Bitton

January 17, 2019

The Fifth Cup, and Eliyahu haNabi

March 23, 2025

10 COMMANDMENTS

Third Commandment: You shall not “carry” the name of God in...

October 3, 2013

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: Honoring our parents

August 23, 2016

SIXTH COMMANDMENT: Killing vs Mudering

June 25, 2014

SIXTH COMMANDMENT: You shall not murder and organ donation

September 1, 2016

AMIDA

AMIDA: God, open my lips….

January 20, 2014

Understanding the Amida (2nd Berakha)

October 12, 2010

SECOND BERAKHA: God’s Power To Heal

January 24, 2017

AMIDA Elokai Netsor, praying for your own good behavior

April 17, 2023

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

THE 13 PRINCIPLES: Moshe was the greatest Prophet.

May 3, 2012

13 PRINCIPLES: Why do we Jews believe in God?

October 20, 2015

THE 13 PRINCIPLES: #8. The accuracy of the Biblical Text

June 14, 2012

8th PRINCIPLE: The Divine origin of the Oral Tradition

January 20, 2016

SCIENCE AND TORA

BERESHIT: What was God’s last creation?

September 21, 2021

Dinosaurs and the Bible

June 5, 2013

JEWISH WEDDING

Dating and Lashon haRa

December 13, 2011

Ketuba Nusach Mashad

February 14, 2008

TESHUBA

ELUL: How Can You Tell That You Are Awake?

August 13, 2018

HILKHOT TESHUBA 2:10. Teshuba via email (part 6)

September 21, 2016

VIDEO

Creation and Big Bang

November 22, 2017

Are the Ten Commandments still relevant in 2017?

November 22, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

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

June 27, 2022

Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?

October 12, 2015

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

May 16, 2017

NES MOOSSAN: The Aleppo Blood Libel, 1853

June 9, 2022

ISRAEL

VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL: What is the world waiting for?

May 7, 2021

Who can Israel trust?

May 19, 2020

Great News About Hamas!

February 24, 2025

President Trump’s Plan For Gaza

September 29, 2025

SHIDUKHIM

One step down

January 30, 2012

Rabbinical Advice on Shidukhim

January 13, 2012

Rabbis and Shidukhim (finding your spouse)

January 6, 2012

Dating and Lashon haRa

December 13, 2011

SEGULOT

The most powerful SEGULA

May 20, 2013

What can we do so HaShem listens to our prayers?

January 2, 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

How to be poor for the rest of your life?

May 12, 2023

PIRQE ABOT 1:1: On Justice and Education

May 3, 2016