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I ❤️ ISRAEL: The Challenge of Fasting in Israel

Yosef Bitton - July 4, 2026

I ❤️ ISRAEL: The Farm on the Hill

Yosef Bitton - July 4, 2026

I ❤️ ISRAEL: Back to the Shomron

Yosef Bitton - July 4, 2026

Sephardic Rabbis

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Sephardic Rabbis

Recommended classic Jewish books

Yosef Bitton - May 28, 2019

Sephardic Rabbis

RIBBI SAADIA BENZAQUEN: Rabbi of Rabbis 

Yosef Bitton - May 14, 2025

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Eliyahu Hazan: The first Sephardic Bat-Mitzva

Yosef Bitton - February 6, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

The last words of Isaac de Castro Tartas (1623-1647)

Yosef Bitton - February 10, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Moshe Capsali 1420-1495

Yosef Bitton - June 25, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Moshe Almosnino (Greece 1515-1580)

Yosef Bitton - July 24, 2013

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Isaac Cardoso (1608-1687)

Yosef Bitton - May 8, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Hayim Nahum (1872-1960)

Yosef Bitton - November 21, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Raphael Karigal (1732-1777)

Yosef Bitton - June 2, 2011

Forgotten Giants III

Rabbi Yehuda Alqalai (1798-1878) and Modern Zionism

Yosef Bitton - April 24, 2025

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Refael Aharon ben Shimon: Sephardim and Ashkenazim

Yosef Bitton - January 16, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ya’aqob Ibn Habib (1460-1516)

Yosef Bitton - October 23, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - August 12, 2015

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Ya’akob Hajez (1620-1674)

Yosef Bitton - July 31, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - October 7, 2013

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Abraham Azulay (1570-1643) and the Sultan’s Sword in Hebron

Yosef Bitton - November 2, 2018

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - June 29, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbenu Bahiya Ibn Paquda (1045-1120) and the duties of the heart

Yosef Bitton - June 16, 2020

Forgotten Giants III

Emmanuel Hai Ricci (1688-1743)

Yosef Bitton - June 13, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi David Pardo (1718-1790)

Yosef Bitton - May 16, 2012

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

The Forgotten Ingredient of the Haroset

April 5, 2020

Slavery, Mud and Straws

April 17, 2019

How To Drink Four Cups Without Getting drunk?

April 4, 2022

Egypt and the Zoo. By Shemuel Bitton

January 17, 2019

10 COMMANDMENTS

THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT: How to Renew Passion in Your Marriage

November 8, 2016

YITRO: Serving God or Using God?

February 8, 2025

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: The way to honoring our parents

August 24, 2016

THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT. Fidelity, and modern society (Part 1).

November 10, 2016

AMIDA

Understanding the Amida (2nd Berakha)

October 12, 2010

AMIDA, THIRD BERAKHA: How Much Can We Know About God?

January 26, 2017

AMIDA (Berakha 06) Father vs King

February 6, 2014

AMIDA (Berakha 07), HaShem, our next of kin

February 7, 2014

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

13 PRINCIPLES: How many idols did Abraham destroy?

November 10, 2015

8th PRINCIPLE: The journey from the Written Tora to the halakhic...

January 27, 2016

God is one. Understanding monotheism.

November 17, 2011

THE 13 Principles: # 12: Messianic times.

January 17, 2013

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 ring

June 18, 2015

What is the Ketuba? Chapter 2

June 20, 2015

TESHUBA

ROSH CHODESH ELUL: The process of Teshuba

August 11, 2010

HILKHOT TESHUBA: The difference between animals and men

August 24, 2015

VIDEO

King Hizqiyah’s Tunnel

December 10, 2017

Are the Ten Commandments still relevant in 2017?

November 22, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

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

June 25, 2022

NES MOOSSAN: The Aleppo Blood Libel, 1853

June 9, 2022

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

June 26, 2022

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

June 24, 2022

ISRAEL

What do we celebrate in Yom HaAtsmaut?

April 21, 2015

CLASS: Identifying God in times of war

December 26, 2023

The absurdity of UNRWA

February 11, 2024

THE CASE FOR ISRAEL. Class # 1

March 18, 2020

SHIDUKHIM

Dating and Lashon haRa

December 13, 2011

Rabbinical Advice on Shidukhim

January 13, 2012

One step down

January 30, 2012

Rabbis and Shidukhim (finding your spouse)

January 6, 2012

SEGULOT

A Simple Formula for Getting Rich

January 16, 2017

The infallible Segula of Abba Hilqiya

May 3, 2025

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

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

July 29, 2022

5. Tisha beAb and the Great Rebellion of 66 (CE)

July 25, 2017

PIRQUE ABOT

A PERSONALITY TEST, by KING SOLOMON

May 5, 2022

PIRQE ABOT 1:1: On Justice and Education

May 3, 2016