Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz

The Bach: One of the Leading גדולים of the Golden Age of Polish Jewry (16th-17th Centuries) 16.06.2024 1:16:23 ↓

Genazym auctioning the first edition, plus a historic תשובה בכתב יד from the ב"ח himself

Shavuos: Grass, Trees, and Roses. Was there vegetation at Mount sinai? 11.06.2024 27:35 ↓

Do we put grass nowadays on the floors of our homes and synagogues? And who were the צֹאן וּבָקָר at Sinai?

Was Hashem originally planning to do מתן תורה at another location? 10.06.2024 34:35 ↓

Without כְּאִישׁ אֶחָד בְּלֵב אֶחָד, it would not be possible to get a collective binding נַעֲשֶׂה וְנִשְׁמָע

The Rambam's Philosophical Problems with מַעֲמַד הַר סִינַי 10.06.2024 37:32 ↓

The problem of trying to give a rational interpretation for what is clearly a mystical event, as Rambam himself admits

A Renaissance Edition of Azarya de Rossi's Controversial Book - Being Auctioned by Genazym 09.06.2024 38:59 ↓

PLUS the ONLY surviving copy of the famous חֵרֶם issued by R’ Yosef Caro's בֵּית דִּין. A classic tale in Jewish history

Hosea tells the Jews not to turn away from Hashem and trust their "allies" 05.06.2024 38:15 ↓

Those "allies" will leave כלל ישראל to die, like like someone stripped naked and left to die from thirst in the middle of the Sahara Desert

What was the relationship between the two luchos and the rest of the Torah? 05.06.2024 30:21 ↓

Why weren't the two tablets given on the occasion of the original shavuos?

Theodore Herzl, Political Zionism, and the Current Campus Riots - Part 5 04.06.2024 53:33 ↓

Herzl tries to avoid the fights between the frum and the anti-frum in the fin de siecle

Yom Yersushalyim: No country recognizes Jerusalem as legally being Israeli territory 03.06.2024 44:59 ↓

A short history of the Jerusalem issue in international law

Hereditary Elites vs. Meritocratic Elites (Pirkei Avos, Ch. 6) 02.06.2024 27:58 ↓

The 48 attributes of a scholar: Does one require all 48, or some of 48?

Haftarah Bechukosai: Jeremiah (לְפִי הָאַבַּרְבָּנֵאל) discusses the chemistry of הִשְׁתַּדְּלוּת and בִּטָּחוֹן 30.05.2024 33:56 ↓

The Kingdom of Judah truly believed in the faithfulness of their Egyptian "ally"

Parshas Bechukosai: The תוכחה was pronounced right after the Ten Commandments 29.05.2024 37:13 ↓

If Moshe had led them then and there (& not died in Chutz L’Aretz), they would have also conquered & settled Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria!

The David-Jonathan Friendship: Was it a two-way street? 28.05.2024 27:46 ↓

Jonathan thought of the public welfare and wanted to avoid a civil war. The narcissistic Amnon threw her out and did not consider what would happen as a result of his actions.

Herzl and Political Zionism, Pt. 4 - Zionism's Relationship to Marxism and Frum Judaism 27.05.2024 58:12 ↓

Herzl, Political Zionism, and Campus Riots, Pt. 4

The ibn Ezra: More on his particular historical context, and the time before the fall 27.05.2024 59:19 ↓

He left Spain just in time, and translated the Sephardic literature from Arabic to Hebrew. Wrote much, but only his פירוש על התורה ּis of permanent interest

Lag b'Omer: When did רשב"י write the Zohar? 26.05.2024 32:13 ↓

Before, during, or after the cave?

Parshas Behar: The theory that both בְּהַר בְּחֻקּוֹתַי were pronounced in פָּרָשַׁת מִשְׁפָּטִים 24.05.2024 28:22 ↓

At the time of שבועות, the conquest of Canaan was but weeks away

Haftarah Behar: Jeremiah and the land deal - Preserving hope among the doomed 22.05.2024 30:46 ↓

Buying "worthless" real estate demonstrates faith in ultimate victory and the permanent survival of כלל ישראל. It prevents יֵאוּשׁ

Biden: It's a good thing we have a President who grew up with the JEWISH version of the Holocaust 21.05.2024 45:14 ↓

1945-1990: The years the Jews owned the Shoah-narrative, and got their account of it accepted by the West. The East was "muzzled"

R’ Akiva’s Students - When exactly did the 24,000 students die? What was the historical context? 21.05.2024 29:00 ↓

Trying to make sense of the chronology of the life of Rabbi Akiva and the story of his students

The Bitter, Non-Frum Opposition to Herzl and His Proposal -Theodore Herzl, Political Zionism, Pt. 3 20.05.2024 42:08 ↓

The Zionists were the first to assemble (or appear to assemble) representatives of all כלל ישראל to discuss the fate of כלל ישראל and seek a realistic solution

Gain Mastery of Hilchos Shabbos in This Online Program 20.05.2024 3:04 ↓

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Haftarah Emor: Who are the people referred to strangely as הַכֹּהֲנִים ַלְּוִיִּי? 16.05.2024 29:09 ↓

What does the אריז"ל mean when he says that in the future, כהנים will be לויים and vice versa?

Parshas Emor: The existential struggle against worshipping כּוֹחוֹת הַטֻּמְאָה 14.05.2024 29:48 ↓

If G-d created טֻמְאָה, why not include it in religious rituals?

Israel’s PR Battle: Why is Israel doing a poor job on PR in this war? Why is Hamas beating them? 14.05.2024 36:48 ↓

The Israeli foreign Ministry has been pulled apart by Netanyahu on political grounds, and diplomats are mostly leftists and cannot make the case for a prime minister with whom they disagree.