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SUKKOT 5787: When the First Day of Sukkot Falls on Shabbat

Yosef Bitton - September 22, 2026

SUKKOT: The Lulab and the Etrog

Yosef Bitton - September 22, 2026

SUKKOT: The Clouds That Protect Israel

Yosef Bitton - September 22, 2026

Sephardic Rabbis

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Forgotten Giants

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

Yosef Bitton - May 12, 2025

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - January 15, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - June 29, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - December 2, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ya’aqob Kholi (1689-1732)

Yosef Bitton - February 12, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

The Last Days of Maimonides

Yosef Bitton - July 1, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - October 7, 2013

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Ya’akob Hajez (1620-1674)

Yosef Bitton - July 31, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

RIBBI SAADIA BENZAQUEN: Rabbi of Rabbis 

Yosef Bitton - May 14, 2025

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ya’aqob Ibn Habib (1460-1516)

Yosef Bitton - October 23, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Menahem de Lonzano (d.1611)

Yosef Bitton - May 1, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Moshe Almosnino (Greece 1515-1580)

Yosef Bitton - July 24, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Refael Aharon ben Shimon response on suicide

Yosef Bitton - January 9, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Eliyahu Hazan: The first Sephardic Bat-Mitzva

Yosef Bitton - February 6, 2013

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Ya’aqob Castro (1525-1612) and the Jewish community of Egypt

Yosef Bitton - January 15, 2019

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - June 27, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Hayim Palachi (1788-1869)

Yosef Bitton - November 28, 2012

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Shaul haLevi Mortera (1596-1660)

Yosef Bitton - May 15, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Isaac Chayim haCohen Cantarini (Padua 1644-1723)

Yosef Bitton - January 18, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ben-Zion Cuenca (1867-1937) And The Hebron Massacre Of 1929

Yosef Bitton - January 18, 2021

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

JEWS IN EGYPT: From Prosperity to Slavery

April 2, 2020

Singing the Hallel in Yerushalayim

March 9, 2025

Why do we recline at the Seder?

April 3, 2022

The 3 Most Important Ideas to Discuss at the Seder

March 23, 2018

10 COMMANDMENTS

THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT: Yihud, protecting conjugal fidelity

November 9, 2016

10 COMMANDMENTS: How come we don’t know them better?

June 28, 2016

SEVENTH COMMANDMENT: Boundaries in Relating to the Opposite Sex

November 15, 2016

The Magic Word of the First Commandment

February 11, 2020

AMIDA

AMIDA (Berakha 17) Prayers or sacrifices?

June 9, 2014

AMIDA, TWELFTH BERAKHA: Protect Us from Treason and Betrayal

February 19, 2017

SECOND BERAKHA: God’s Power To Heal

January 24, 2017

Preparing ourselves to stand in front of God

February 1, 2010

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

Practical Monotheism

November 29, 2011

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

January 17, 2012

THE 13 PRINCIPLES. # 7. Moshe reached the highest level of...

May 17, 2012

The 13 Principles: # 12: The Mashiah

November 1, 2012

SCIENCE AND TORA

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

October 17, 2022

Two books by the same Author

November 1, 2017

JEWISH WEDDING

When are the Sheba Berakhot recited?

December 19, 2020

The day of the Wedding: Sephardic and Ashkenazi traditions

June 30, 2015

TESHUBA

HILKHOT TESHUBA: 1:1. The ultimate regret

August 21, 2012

Viduy (confession) and Alcoholism

September 7, 2011

VIDEO

Creation and Big Bang

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

The Two Rabbis Who Gave America the Weekend

July 10, 2026

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

June 24, 2022

NES MOOSSAN: The Aleppo Blood Libel, 1853

June 9, 2022

ISRAEL

KING DAVID’S JERUSALEM

January 23, 2026

“Maimonides and the Hostages Deal”, Miami FL, Jan 23, 2025

February 4, 2025

Rafiah or Negotiating with Hamas?

May 1, 2024

I ❤️ ISRAEL: Praying Mincha in the Old City

July 14, 2022

SHIDUKHIM

Rabbis and Shidukhim (finding your spouse)

January 6, 2012

SEGULOT FOR SHIDDUKHIM ” Easy going”

July 29, 2026

SEGULOT FOR SHIDDUKHIM Don’t fall in love with a picture

July 29, 2026

Dating and Lashon haRa

December 13, 2011

SEGULOT

The most powerful SEGULA

May 20, 2013

A Simple Formula for Getting Rich

January 16, 2017

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

Leaving An Unfinished Wall To Remember The Bet HaMiqdash

August 19, 2019

HATSORI: The Perfume of the Messiah

May 4, 2018

PIRQUE ABOT

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

April 10, 2013

PIRQE ABOT 3:1: The sleeping rider syndrome

May 18, 2016