Occupation Chief Rabbi, Author | ||
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Known for Former Chief Rabbi of Uruguay Notable work Awesome Creation, Bereshit Books Awesome Creation: A Study of the First Three Verses of the Torah Alma maters Yeshiva University, Bar-Ilan University, Emory University | ||
Yosef Bittón is an Argentinian-born community rabbi and the former Chief Rabbi of Uruguay.
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Personal life
Yosef Bitton is half Syrian, half Moroccan as his grandparents came from Tetouan, Morocco and Damascus, Syria. He was born in Argentina to Argentinian parents.
Career
Bitton received his ordination from Israel's Rabbinate and Dayanut ordination from Rabbi Obadiah Yosef. Yosef Bitton furthered his career by pursuing academic studies at Yeshiva University as well as at Ben Gurion, Bar-Ilan and Emory. Yosef Bitton spent above 25 years as a community rabbi in Buenos Aires, Montevideo in the Mashadi community of Great Neck NY and is currently the rabbi of the Ohel David and Shlomo congregation of Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn.
As an author, Bitton's book Awesome creation received coverage in multiple sources. The daily email of his website, halakha of the day, reaches 48,000 readers every day.