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Hakham Isaac Sassoon

One of the world’s leading Torah scholars, Hakham Isaac Sassoon synthesizes rigorous traditional study with scrupulous academic and historical scholarship.

A prolific writer for TheTorah.com, Hakham Sassoon is the author of several critically-acclaimed books including:

His initial education was under the tutelage of his father, the renowned scholar Rabbi Solomon David Sassoon, Hakham Yosef Doury, and others. He continued his studies at the prestigious Gateshead Yeshiva and various yeshivoth in Israel. He holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Lisbon.

Continuing his family's tradition of academic achievement, Hakham Sassoon has published on topics ranging from Scriptural commentary and history, to issues of current concern to the Jewish community. Hakham Sassoon teaches at the Institute of Traditional Judaism-The Metivta and lectures widely.

For more thoughts from Hakham Sassoon, see the Destination Torah Facebook page, Twitter handle, and Youtube channel.

To learn more about Hakham Sassoon, go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_S.D._Sassoon

Video: Hakham Dr. Isaac Sassoon Presents Siddur ‘Alats Libbi VIDEOS

Video: Hakham Dr. Isaac Sassoon Presents Siddur ‘Alats Libbi

by Hakham Isaac Sassoon

Categories: Halakhah, Tefillah, Torah/Talmud
ARTICLE (Reprinted from Times of Israel Blogs)

Life and death are in the power of the tongue (see Proverbs 18:21)

by Hakham Isaac Sassoon

Categories: Israel, Modern Judaism, Tefillah, Torah/Talmud
Commemoration of the First Yahrzeit of Rabbi David Halivni ZTZ”L VIDEOS

Commemoration of the First Yahrzeit of Rabbi David Halivni ZTZ”L

by Rabbi Ronald Price, Hakham Isaac Sassoon, Rabbi David Weiss Halivni Z"L and Rabbi Ephraim Halivni

Categories: Modern Judaism, Remembering Rabbi Halivni Z"L, Torah/Talmud, UTJ Events
ARTICLE

Haggadat Uvalaylah Shiro Immi (And At Night May His Song Be With Me)

by Hakham Isaac Sassoon

Categories: Holidays, Passover
ARTICLE (Reprinted from thetorah.com)

Source Criticism Enhances Our Acceptance of the Torah

by Hakham Isaac Sassoon

Categories: Torah/Talmud
ARTICLE

On The Ashkenazi Practice Of Limiting ברכת כהנים (The Priestly Blessing) To Holidays

by Hakham Isaac Sassoon and Rabbi Noah Gradofsky

Categories: Halakhah, Tefillah
ARTICLE (Reprinted from TheTorah.com)

What Does Deuteronomy Say About Homosexuality?

by Hakham Isaac Sassoon

Categories: Articles, Modern Judaism, Relationships, Torah/Talmud
ARTICLE (Reprinted from TheTorah.com)

The Priestly Repudiation of Yibbum

by Hakham Isaac Sassoon

Categories: Philosophy, Torah/Talmud, Women's Forum
ARTICLE (Reprinted from TheTorah.com)

Obliterating Cherem

by Hakham Isaac Sassoon

Categories: Israel, Modern Judaism, Philosophy, Torah/Talmud
ARTICLE (Reprinted from TheTorah.com)

Metempsychosis (Gilgul), Academic Study of Bible and the Meaning of Truth

by Hakham Isaac Sassoon

Categories: Articles, Philosophy, Torah/Talmud
ARTICLE (Reprinted from TheTorah.com)

Shabbat HaYom, HaYom, HaYom

by Hakham Isaac Sassoon

Categories: Torah/Talmud, Uncategorized
ARTICLE (Reprinted from TheTorah.com)

Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: Were They Siblings?

by Hakham Isaac Sassoon

Categories: Uncategorized