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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 Bibas vs. the reform movement (1776-1852)

Yosef Bitton - February 15, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi David Pardo (1718-1790)

Yosef Bitton - May 16, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - May 27, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Shemtob Gaguin (1884-1953)

Yosef Bitton - November 7, 2012

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Ya’akob Hajez (1620-1674)

Yosef Bitton - July 31, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Hayim Palachi (1788-1869)

Yosef Bitton - November 28, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - April 15, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Israel Moshe Hazan (1808-1863)

Yosef Bitton - June 19, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - February 22, 2012

Forgotten Giants II

Eliyahu Montalto (1567–1616), physician to the King of France

Yosef Bitton - June 10, 2025

Forgotten Giants II

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

Yosef Bitton - November 2, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - February 23, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Eliyahu Hazan (1846-1908) and the Role of Secular Studies

Yosef Bitton - January 30, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - May 2, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Menahem de Lonzano (d.1611)

Yosef Bitton - May 1, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Shelomo Alqabets (1500-1580), author of Lekha Dodi

Yosef Bitton - August 12, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Hayim Nahum (1872-1960)

Yosef Bitton - November 21, 2012

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Yehuda Moscato (1530-1593) and the Cuzary

Yosef Bitton - April 26, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

SEPHARDIC RABBIS: Isaac Shemuel Reggio (1784-1855)

Yosef Bitton - May 9, 2012

Forgotten Giants II

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

Yosef Bitton - March 5, 2023

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

Pesach Trivia for the Seder

March 9, 2026

Why Four Cups?

March 30, 2024

How To Drink Four Cups Without Getting drunk?

April 4, 2022

HEBREW & ENGLISH ESSENTIAL HAGGADAH FOR PESACH 2020

April 7, 2022

10 COMMANDMENTS

The Game of the Ten Commandments.

February 3, 2020

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: The difference between honoring and respecting parents

August 22, 2016

THE SECOND COMMANDMENT: Carving images.

July 25, 2013

How many commandments contain the Ten commandments?

May 2, 2013

AMIDA

AMIDA: The basic 3.6.6.1.3 structure

January 14, 2014

Preparing ourselves to stand in front of God

February 1, 2010

AMIDA, SEVENTH BERAKHA: Goel, our next of kin

February 6, 2017

AMIDA (Berakha 12) Religious and Political Betrayal

February 21, 2014

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

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

January 17, 2012

THE 13 PRINCIPLES: Moshe was the greatest Prophet.

May 3, 2012

The 13 principles of Jewish faith: # 6: the mission of...

February 28, 2012

The Afterlife

August 22, 2022

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

The bridal gown

July 2, 2012

The ancient origins of the Jewish wedding ceremony

June 15, 2015

TESHUBA

Regret and suffering

September 1, 2020

7 LEVELS OF TESHUBA: Is It Ever Too Late to Repent?...

September 11, 2017

VIDEO

Dinosaurs in the Torah? JULY 25, 2017

November 22, 2017

Creation and Big Bang

November 22, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

NES MOOSSAN: The Aleppo Blood Libel, 1853

June 9, 2022

Doña Gracia Mendes (Part 1): Rescuing Jewish refugees from Spain and...

June 24, 2022

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

May 16, 2017

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

June 25, 2022

ISRAEL

VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL: What is the world waiting for?

May 7, 2021

The New Reality Of The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

May 13, 2021

החזירו אותם הביתה או שלח את עמי?

August 25, 2025

Why Is This Yom HaAtzmaut Different from All the Others?

May 1, 2025

SHIDUKHIM

Rabbinical Advice on Shidukhim

January 13, 2012

The best age to get married

July 5, 2015

Choosing your future spouse, with your head and your heart

June 15, 2021

One step down

January 30, 2012

SEGULOT

The Secret to Finding Your Soulmate (shiddukh)

January 12, 2017

The Best Antidote Against Memory Loss

January 9, 2017

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

4. The beginning of the rebellion against Rome (44-60 CE)

July 29, 2022

Leaving An Unfinished Wall To Remember The Bet HaMiqdash

August 19, 2019

PIRQUE ABOT

Who Should Say Hello First?

May 23, 2022

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

April 10, 2013