Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz

Abraham Drabkin (1844-1927): A Reform Rabbi in Czarist Russia? 17.08.2023 1:23:53 ↓

From Volozhin to the JTS of Breslau to the Great Synagogue of St. Petersburg, Reform Russian style

Isaiah Says Only הקב"ה Can Provide Genuine Comfort for All the Sufferings of the Jews Down the Ages 15.08.2023 29:31 ↓

Haftarah Shoftim: Genuine אֱמוּנָה requires seeing נִקְמַת מִדָּה כְּנֶגֶד מִדָּה

The Drashos HaRan on Analyzing the Distinction Between Shoftim and Kings 14.08.2023 30:36 ↓

R’ Katz distinguishes between courts who administered the justice of the original תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה and their later successors

The Great R’Shlomo Dovid Kahana, Pt. 3: Spirited out of the Warsaw Ghetto to Rav of the Old City 14.08.2023 57:26 ↓

The mammoth Aguna crisis in the aftermath of the Holocaust

Parshas Re'eh and Jewish History: The Existential Tension in Jewish History Between the Centralizers and the Decentralizers 09.08.2023 29:55 ↓

Moses' Stark Admonition That Everything is Either a Blessing or a Curse; Nothing is Neutral

Kabbalist Questions (Summum Bonum): The Consequences of Stating That the Soul is a חֵלֶק אֱלֹהַּ מִמַּעַל 08.08.2023 22:43 ↓

If the soul "reunites " with G-d, then we are way beyond שְׂכַר וְעֹנֶשׁ

Haftarah Re’eh: Isaiah Envisions a World Where G-d Tells the Jews Which Minhag He Likes 07.08.2023 28:46 ↓

The Arabs make peace with Israel when all other options fail...

Parshas Re'eh: What is the Meaning of לְשִׁכְנוֹ תִדְרְשׁוּ וּבָאתָ שָׁמָּה? 06.08.2023 33:20 ↓

How exactly did they later discover the site of the בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ? After all, it is not stated in the חֻמָּשׁ?

R' Shlomo Dovid Kahana, Pt. 2: Warsaw and Its Yeshivas 06.08.2023 59:31 ↓

The diastrous effects of WW 1 on religiosity, and the efforts to respond to the crisis in Warsaw

The Arizal and Summum Bonum: If People Have Multiple "Souls," Which Ones Go Where? 03.08.2023 30:39 ↓

What happens when two persons have the same relationship to a mitzvah?

Tu B’Av: Is יוֹם שֶׁהֻתְּרוּ הַשְּׁבָטִים לָבֹא זֶה בָּזֶה the same as יוֹם שֶׁהֻתַּר בִּנְיָמִין 02.08.2023 59:07 ↓

Did the corpses of ביתר remain intact (though mutilated from battle and torture)? Or was it the skeletons which survived intact?

Haftarah Eikev: Did G-d Divorce the Kingdom of Yisroel (Not Judah)? 02.08.2023 32:28 ↓

Why kind of a marriage does כלל ישראל have today with HaShem?

Parshas Eikev: Why the Strange Phrase "וְאָכַלְתָּ אֶת כָּל הָעַמִּים "? 01.08.2023 32:09 ↓

Why the strange anthropormism that Hashem was "crazy in love" with the Patriarchs and Matriarchs?

R’ Shlomo Dovid Kahana: The Greatest Gadol of the 20th Century You Never Heard of, Part I 01.08.2023 1:00:31 ↓

A Litvish Gadol who ends up as Dayan of the largest hasidic community in the world Part 1

The Radbaz (Who was Big in Both נִגְלֶה וְנִסְתָּר) Describes the Rambam's Attitude Towards Gehinnom 26.07.2023 32:36 ↓

The wicked are indeed destroyed, but not before they suffer torture

Parshas VaEschanan: Moshe Says That the חֻקִּים Will Inspire the Admiration of the Gentiles. Why? 25.07.2023 31:36 ↓

Moshe is describing the wonderfully flexible תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה of long ago

Tisha B'Av and Mesilas Yesharim: What is a Chasid (in the Classical Sense of the Term) Supposed to Think on Tisha B'Av? 25.07.2023 28:36 ↓

Luzzatto on אֲבֵלוּת לִשְׁמָהּ עַל הַחֻרְבָּן

Lewis Strauss - A Story About a Famous Reform Jew and His Connection to Klal Yisroel 25.07.2023 59:41 ↓

Close with Hoover, Truman, & Eisenhower. Nemesis of Robert Oppenheimer. Helped Israel get the Atomic Bomb

Robert Oppenheimer and מִדָּה כְּנֶגֶד מִדָּה 24.07.2023 41:19 ↓

The Jews can never be safe, and neither can the non-Jews , after the developments of 1939-1945

Rabbi Katz’s Tisha B'Av Schedule This Year 24.07.2023 1:14 ↓

Will take place at his shul. Google Beth Abraham Baltimore for info and livestream

Haftarah Devarim: Isaiah Does Not Mention Idolatry as the Problem, But Social Injustice! 20.07.2023 24:17 ↓

Isaiah punctures the self-satisfaction of Jerusalemites during the reign of Hezekiah

Parshas Devarim: Why Are Some Laws Only in Devarim? 20.07.2023 39:06 ↓

Do we have the original version of the חומש? Or a second (divinely-dictated) version?

RFK Jr. and Dangerous Rhetoric re: Jews and Corona 18.07.2023 25:23 ↓

How John Spargo scotched Henry Ford's antisemitic campaign 100 years ago

שְׂכַר הַצַּדִּיקִים לְפִי הָרַמְחַ"ל 17.07.2023 32:38 ↓

The Final Reward will be on Planet Earth

Ramban's Anxious Letter to His Son Who Lived With the Rich Jews at the Royal Court 13.07.2023 30:34 ↓

"Stay Way from בְּנוֹת מוֹאָב!"