Halakha of the Day | Halakha and Jewish history accessible to all – By Rabbi Yosef Bitton

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EVE OF YOM KIPPUR: What do we have to do today?

Yosef Bitton - September 19, 2026

NAZA and YOM KIPPUR: Not Everything Is Forgivable

Yosef Bitton - September 18, 2026

Fasting, not fasting, and how to eat when you cannot fast

Yosef Bitton - September 16, 2026

Sephardic Rabbis

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Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Don Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508)

Yosef Bitton - May 22, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Shelomo Serilio (ca. 1485-1555) and the Talmud of Jerusalem

Yosef Bitton - February 11, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Refael Aharon ben Shimon: Sephardim and Ashkenazim

Yosef Bitton - January 16, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

The Last Days of Maimonides

Yosef Bitton - July 1, 2020

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Shaul haLevi Mortera (1596-1660)

Yosef Bitton - May 15, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - January 15, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Ya’aqob Ibn Habib (1460-1516)

Yosef Bitton - October 22, 2014

Sephardic Rabbis

Maran Rabbi Yosef Caro (1488-1575)

Yosef Bitton - October 2, 2013

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Menashe ben Israel (1604-1657) the most famous Jew in the world

Yosef Bitton - June 6, 2023

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Israel Moshe Hazan (1808-1863)

Yosef Bitton - June 19, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Yishaq ben Walid (1777-1870)

Yosef Bitton - November 14, 2012

Forgotten Giants

SEPHARDIC RABBIS: Rabbi Hayim Carigal (1732-1777) and Yale University

Yosef Bitton - November 4, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - May 2, 2012

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - June 14, 2015

Sephardic Rabbis

Rabbi Eliyahu Hazan: The first Sephardic Bat-Mitzva

Yosef Bitton - February 6, 2013

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - June 16, 2020

Sephardic Rabbis

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

Yosef Bitton - May 27, 2015

Forgotten Giants

Rabbi Ya’aqob Kholi (1689-1732) and the book that changed the Sephardic communities

Yosef Bitton - October 23, 2018

Forgotten Giants

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

Yosef Bitton - February 19, 2022

Sephardic Rabbis

The Leadership of Rabbi Obadia Yosef z”l

Yosef Bitton - October 9, 2013

THE NIGHT OF THE SEDER

TALKING POINTS FOR THE SEDER

April 8, 2025

Singing the Hallel in Yerushalayim

March 9, 2025

Tips to avoid a boring Seder

April 10, 2025

The Fifth Cup, and Eliyahu haNabi

March 23, 2025

10 COMMANDMENTS

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

October 3, 2013

NINTH COMMANDMENT: “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor”

November 28, 2016

TENTH COMMANDMENT: What Is The Opposite Of Envy?

December 14, 2016

How many commandments contain the Ten commandments?

May 2, 2013

AMIDA

AMIDA, SEVENTH BERAKHA: Goel, our next of kin

February 6, 2017

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

January 26, 2017

Understanding the Amida (2nd Berakha)

October 12, 2010

AMIDA, FOURTH BERAKHA: The Miracle of Human Intelligence

January 30, 2017

THE 13 PRINCIPLES

5th PRINCIPLE: Praying exclusively to HaShem

January 11, 2016

The 13 principles of Judaism. # 12: The Jewish Messiah

January 3, 2013

9th PRINCIPLE: Can the Tora be changed or replaced?

February 1, 2016

13 PRINCIPLES: Monotheism vs. Syncrethysm

November 3, 2015

SCIENCE AND TORA

BERESHIT: What was God’s last creation?

September 21, 2021

Two books by the same Author

November 1, 2017

JEWISH WEDDING

Ketuba Nusach Mashad

February 14, 2008

Minhaguim of Sheba Berakhot

June 23, 2011

TESHUBA

HILKHOT TESHUBA 2:10. Why should we forgive? (part 7)

September 22, 2016

Free Will and Evolution Theory

August 26, 2015

VIDEO

King Hizqiyah’s Tunnel

December 10, 2017

Are the Ten Commandments still relevant in 2017?

November 22, 2017

JEWISH HISTORY

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

June 27, 2022

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

June 24, 2022

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

June 26, 2022

NES MOOSSAN: The Aleppo Blood Libel, 1853

June 9, 2022

ISRAEL

MATTOT – MAS’E: Tora and Human Sacrifices

July 25, 2025

I ❤️ ISRAEL: Israel’s Treasures Under The Sea

July 15, 2024

Great News About Hamas!

February 24, 2025

UNRWA: What sets Palestinian refugees apart from all other refugees in...

February 8, 2024

SHIDUKHIM

Rabbinical Advice on Shidukhim

January 13, 2012

Rabbis and Shidukhim (finding your spouse)

January 6, 2012

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

July 29, 2026

The best age to get married

July 5, 2015

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

POST 9 AB: The delicate balance between mourning and celebration

July 24, 2018

HATSORI: The Perfume of the Messiah

May 4, 2018

PIRQUE ABOT

PIRQE ABOT 3:1: Integrity, without exceptions

May 18, 2016

My most favorite Mishna

May 4, 2026