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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

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

Yosef Bitton - February 10, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ben-Zion Abraham Cuenca (1867-1937)

Yosef Bitton - June 12, 2013

Forgotten Giants II

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

Yosef Bitton - November 2, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Abraham de Sola (1825-1882), a Forgotten Sephardic Giant

Yosef Bitton - February 20, 2022

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Don Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508)

Yosef Bitton - May 22, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Hasday Crescas (1340-1411)

Yosef Bitton - December 10, 2014

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

Yosef Bitton - November 15, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - October 21, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Shelomo ibn Verga (ca. 1460-1540) and “La vara de Yehuda”

Yosef Bitton - November 14, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - May 27, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ya’aqob Ibn Habib (1460-1516)

Yosef Bitton - October 22, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - October 7, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Maimonides (1135 -1204). Elitism and Rationalism?

Yosef Bitton - June 25, 2020

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbi Shemuel Laniado (1530-1610) and the pearls beneath the fish

Yosef Bitton - May 12, 2025

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Israel Najara (1555-1625) and the Jobar Synagogue

Yosef Bitton - June 14, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

SEPHARDIC RABBIS: Isaac Shemuel Reggio (1784-1855)

Yosef Bitton - May 9, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Isaac Canpanton (1360-1463)

Yosef Bitton - November 7, 2014

Forgotten Giants II

Rabbis Jacob and Isaac Abendana (17th Century)

Yosef Bitton - October 27, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - February 22, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

SEPHARDIC RABBIS: Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (1880-1953)

Yosef Bitton - June 27, 2012

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

For the merit of virtuous women the children of Israel were...

March 5, 2018

HEBREW & ENGLISH ESSENTIAL HAGGADAH FOR PESACH 2020

April 7, 2022

Why Four Cups?

March 30, 2024

The Role of Women in the Exodus Story

March 5, 2021

10 COMMANDMENTS

YITRO: Serving God or Using God?

February 8, 2025

SIXTH COMMANDMENT: You shall not murder and organ donation

September 1, 2016

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: Honoring our parents

August 23, 2016

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT and the Golden Calf

July 4, 2016

AMIDA

AMIDA (Berakha 01). God, our protector

January 21, 2014

AMIDA (Berakha 08) HaShem is the ultimate Healer

February 10, 2014

AMIDA (Berakha 05) The gift of repentance

February 4, 2014

Kavana: Understanding the meaning

April 13, 2010

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

12th PRINCIPLE : what do we know about the messianic times?

February 15, 2016

The Tenth Principle: God knows everything.

August 9, 2012

12th PRINCIPLE: Was Yeshu the Messiah?

February 11, 2016

12th PRINCIPLE: When is the Messiah supposed to come?

February 16, 2016

SCIENCE AND TORA

Dinosaurs and the Bible

June 5, 2013

Two books by the same Author

November 1, 2017

JEWISH WEDDING

The KETUBA and the shirt on the husband’s shoulders

June 24, 2015

What is the Ketuba? Chapter 2

June 20, 2015

TESHUBA

Teshuba and Jiminy the cricket

September 22, 2013

TESHUBA and Chutzpa

September 6, 2014

VIDEO

King Hizqiyah’s Tunnel

December 10, 2017

Dinosaurs in the Torah? JULY 25, 2017

November 22, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

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

June 27, 2022

NES MOOSSAN: The Aleppo Blood Libel, 1853

June 9, 2022

Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?

October 12, 2015

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

May 16, 2017

ISRAEL

The Pharaoh Of Gaza

December 23, 2023

What did Zekharia see?

April 20, 2023

I ❤️ ISRAEL: Israel’s Treasures Under The Sea

July 15, 2024

SHELACH LEKHA: Defeatism and the Jews

July 15, 2024

SHIDUKHIM

Rabbinical Advice on Shidukhim

January 13, 2012

Choosing your future spouse, with your head and your heart

June 15, 2021

The best age to get married

July 5, 2015

Rabbis and Shidukhim (finding your spouse)

January 6, 2012

SEGULOT

The Benefits of Physical Activity, According to Maimonides

January 5, 2017

What can we do so HaShem listens to our prayers?

January 2, 2017

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

Leaving An Unfinished Wall To Remember The Bet HaMiqdash

August 19, 2019

Pesach in the Bet-HaMiqdash

March 13, 2026

PIRQUE ABOT

My most favorite Mishna

May 4, 2026

Pirqe Abot, 2:8: Rabbi Magriso on overeating

May 14, 2014