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Halloween and Abraham Abinu

Yosef Bitton - October 30, 2026

VAYERA: Israeli Elections and the Hagar Syndrome

Yosef Bitton - October 30, 2026

VAYERA: Lot and the Frog a la Casserole

Yosef Bitton - October 30, 2026

Sephardic Rabbis

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Forgotten Giants

Aharon Mendel HaCohen (1866-1927), The Ashkenazi Rabbi Of Cairo, Egypt

Yosef Bitton - January 13, 2021

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Eliyahu Hazan: The first Sephardic Bat-Mitzva

Yosef Bitton - February 6, 2013

Forgotten Giants

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

Yosef Bitton - November 19, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Isaac ben Abraham Abohab (Spain, 14th Century)

Yosef Bitton - October 30, 2013

Forgotten Giants

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

Yosef Bitton - November 2, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Refael Aharon Ben Shimon and the Ashkenazi community of Cairo

Yosef Bitton - May 23, 2018

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Moshe Chefetz (or Hefes) 1663-1711

Yosef Bitton - October 17, 2012

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Binyamin Musafia (1606-1675)

Yosef Bitton - February 5, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - April 15, 2015

Forgotten Giants

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

Yosef Bitton - February 18, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - June 29, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Isaac Lampronti (1679–1756)

Yosef Bitton - December 8, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ya’aqob Berab (1474-1546) and the renewal of Rabbinic ordination

Yosef Bitton - January 15, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Isaac Chayim haCohen Cantarini (Padua 1644-1723)

Yosef Bitton - January 18, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Israel Moshe Hazan (1808-1863)

Yosef Bitton - June 19, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - December 29, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

Who taught rabbi Obadia Yosef?

Yosef Bitton - October 8, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - December 2, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Don Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508)

Yosef Bitton - May 22, 2013

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Portaleone And The Four-Hours A Day Tora Curriculum

Yosef Bitton - February 2, 2022

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

Tips to avoid a boring Seder

April 10, 2025

The Importance of Haroset for Maimonides

April 5, 2020

What does the word Pesach really mean?

March 27, 2020

Why Haroset? Four Answers

April 5, 2020

10 COMMANDMENTS

THE SECOND COMMANDMENT: Carving images.

July 25, 2013

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: The way to honoring our parents

August 24, 2016

THE THIRD COMMANDMENT: Thou shalt not misrepresent Me

July 13, 2016

THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT: How to Renew Passion in Your Marriage

November 8, 2016

AMIDA

AMIDA, TENTH BERAKHA: Jewish People or Jewish Religion?

February 13, 2017

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

January 23, 2014

AMIDA (Berakha 05) The gift of repentance

February 4, 2014

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

February 14, 2017

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

13 PRINCIPLES: The right way of thinking about God

November 17, 2015

THE 13 PRINCIPLES: Moshe was the greatest Prophet.

May 3, 2012

Tehiyat haMetim and the new evolution theory

August 23, 2021

7th PRINCIPLE: Moshe’s Prophecy

January 18, 2016

SCIENCE AND TORA

BERESHIT: What was God’s last creation?

September 21, 2021

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

October 17, 2022

JEWISH WEDDING

List of the Sheba Berakhot

February 11, 2008

Minhaguim of Sheba Berakhot

June 23, 2011

TESHUBA

Rosh Chodesh Elul

August 31, 2011

The original sin and blame displacement

September 8, 2011

VIDEO

IF YOU LOVE ME READ MY MIND West Deal Syn. June...

November 22, 2017

Are the Ten Commandments still relevant in 2017?

November 22, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

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

June 26, 2022

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

June 25, 2022

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

May 16, 2017

The Two Rabbis Who Gave America the Weekend

July 10, 2026

ISRAEL

I ❤️ ISRAEL: Israel’s Treasures Under The Sea

July 15, 2024

CLASS: Identifying God in times of war

December 26, 2023

What Was Iran Trying to Say?

October 2, 2026

LEKH LEKHA: The Other Side of the River

October 24, 2026

SHIDUKHIM

Rabbis and Shidukhim (finding your spouse)

January 6, 2012

The best age to get married

July 5, 2015

Dating and Lashon haRa

December 13, 2011

Choosing your future spouse, with your head and your heart

June 15, 2021

SEGULOT

The infallible Segula of Abba Hilqiya

May 3, 2025

The most powerful SEGULA

May 20, 2013

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

POST 9 AB: The delicate balance between mourning and celebration

July 24, 2018

Leaving An Unfinished Wall To Remember The Bet HaMiqdash

August 19, 2019

PIRQUE ABOT

Pirqe Abot 1:7, friendship and second-hand smoke

April 10, 2013

Pirqe Abot, 2:8: Rabbi Magriso on overeating

May 14, 2014