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

Yosef Bitton - November 2, 2016

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - December 2, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Isaac Caro (1458-1535), from Toledo to Yerushalayim

Yosef Bitton - November 27, 2014

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Ya’akob Hajez (1620-1674)

Yosef Bitton - July 31, 2013

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Yehuda Moscato (1530-1593) and the Cuzary

Yosef Bitton - April 26, 2015

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi David Nieto (1654-1720) and the Sephardic community of London

Yosef Bitton - February 19, 2022

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Refael Aharon ben Shimon (1847-1928)

Yosef Bitton - January 2, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - June 16, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Abraham Zacuto (1452-1515)

Yosef Bitton - November 13, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Eliyahu Hazan: The first Sephardic Bat-Mitzva

Yosef Bitton - February 6, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Who taught rabbi Obadia Yosef?

Yosef Bitton - October 8, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

The Last Days of Maimonides

Yosef Bitton - July 1, 2020

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 Menahem de Lonzano (d.1611)

Yosef Bitton - May 1, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Recommended classic Jewish books

Yosef Bitton - May 28, 2019

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Moshe Almosnino (Greece 1515-1580)

Yosef Bitton - July 24, 2013

Forgotten Giants

Rabbis Jacob and Isaac Abendana (17th Century)

Yosef Bitton - October 27, 2011

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Yehuda Alqalai (1798-1878)

Yosef Bitton - August 8, 2012

Forgotten Giants

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

Yosef Bitton - January 15, 2019

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

Singing the Hallel in Yerushalayim

March 9, 2025

JEWS IN EGYPT: From Prosperity to Slavery

April 2, 2020

A Powerful Lesson From the Maror

April 5, 2023

Why Four Cups?

March 30, 2024

10 COMMANDMENTS

THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT: Yihud, protecting conjugal fidelity

November 9, 2016

Third Commandment: You shall not “carry” the name of God in...

October 3, 2013

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT: A Mitsva or a preamble?

June 29, 2016

SIXTH COMMANDMENT: You shall not kill or You Shall not murder?

August 29, 2016

AMIDA

AMIDA, FOURTH BERAKHA: The Miracle of Human Intelligence

January 30, 2017

AMIDA, NINTH BERAKHA: The Benefits and Risks of Material Abundance

February 9, 2017

AMIDA, FOURTEENTH BERAKHA: Jerusalem, a city and its soul

February 22, 2017

AMIDA (berakha 10), Jewish Religion or Jewish people?

February 18, 2014

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

13 PRINCIPLES: The right way of thinking about God

November 17, 2015

THE 13 Principles: # 12: Messianic times.

January 17, 2013

8th PRINCIPLE: Presentation of the book Mate Dan, by rabbi David...

January 26, 2016

13 PRINCIPLES: Science, creation, Creator

October 27, 2015

SCIENCE AND TORA

BERESHIT: What was God’s last creation?

September 21, 2021

Dinosaurs and the Bible

June 5, 2013

JEWISH WEDDING

Ketuba Nusach Mashad

February 14, 2008

The ancient origins of the Jewish wedding ceremony

June 15, 2015

TESHUBA

Free Will and Evolution Theory

August 26, 2015

HILKHOT TESHUBA 4:2 When the King repents

August 28, 2013

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 5) and Yosef Nasi, Lord of Tiberias

May 16, 2017

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

Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?

October 12, 2015

ISRAEL

MATTOT – MAS’E: Tora and Human Sacrifices

July 25, 2025

I ❤️ ISRAEL: The Divine Presence, back in the Israeli Army

July 10, 2024

I ❤️ ISRAEL: Israel’s Treasures Under The Sea

July 15, 2024

The Inexplicable Ceasefire of (June 11th, 1948).

May 5, 2022

SHIDUKHIM

One step down

January 30, 2012

Dating and Lashon haRa

December 13, 2011

SEGULOT FOR SHIDDUKHIM: One Step Down

July 29, 2026

The best age to get married

July 5, 2015

SEGULOT

The Benefits of Physical Activity, According to Maimonides

January 5, 2017

The Best Antidote Against Memory Loss

January 9, 2017

BET HAMIQDASH HISTORY

HATSIPOREN: The Perfume of the Sea

May 7, 2018

Pesach in the Bet-HaMiqdash

March 13, 2026

PIRQUE ABOT

PIRQE ABOT, Rabbi Eliezer on character assassination

May 13, 2014

How to be poor for the rest of your life?

May 12, 2023