Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz

Yaakov Anatoli (1195-1256): Controversial Jewish Intellectual During the Maimonidean Controveries 07.11.2022 1:06:13 ↓

His sefer מַלְמַד הַתַּלְמִידִים עַל פָּרָשַׁת הַשָּׁבוּעַ loved and hated down the centuries

Join Rabbi Katz's Jewish History Tour of Israel, January 9-15, 2023 07.11.2022 6:28 ↓

R Katz discusses his intellectually -exciting itinerary for his upcoming tour. Israel with his "spin"

Is מוֹדִים thanks for the protection of the nation, or is it thanks for our individual survival? 04.11.2022 31:02 ↓

Is your soul identical with "you"? Who exactly are YOU?

Isaiah salutes Abraham, who turned down the spoils of war because he was interested in higher things 02.11.2022 26:08 ↓

If Isaiah says אַל תִּירָא,the Jews at that time must have been terrified... of Assyria

Flavius Josephus' Description of Abraham's "Visit" in Egypt and It's Long Lasting Significance 01.11.2022 30:34 ↓

Why are all the Biblical characters described as handsome or beautiful?

רַבִּי יִצְחָק אַבּוּלַפִיָּה מִדַּמֶּשֶׂק בַּעַל שׁוּ"ת "פְּנֵי יִצְחָק " 1824-1910 31.10.2022 1:08:46 ↓

A great Gaon deposed by his own community (Damascus). A tale of the Sephardic Rabbinic elites

R Ovadia Yosef and Edmund Burke 31.10.2022 53:18 ↓

Rabbinical politics (in both sense of the term)

Isaiah Compares the Assyrian Holocaust to a Biblical Flood 23.10.2022 30:15 ↓

"No more floods! No more Holocausts!"

The Flood - Who Won in the End G-d or the Snake? (Parshas Noach) 23.10.2022 29:02 ↓

Why did Noah take the snake on the Ark? Would you?

Is על הצדיקים a ברכה composed AFTER the preceding paragraph ( ולמלשינים )? Why the גירי הצדק? 21.10.2022 33:17 ↓

What's with the second half re: בִּטָּחוֹן בִּגְאֻלַּת יִשְׂרָאֵל ?

The Texts Debated at the Medieval Disputations Between Christians & Jews from Isaiah 42 19.10.2022 38:57 ↓

How exactly are we Jews supposed to be a בְּרִית עִם וְאוֹר גּוֹיִים ?

Parshas Bereishis: Is It the Snake or the Yetzer Hara? 19.10.2022 36:15 ↓

What's the meaning of the Divine mandate that man and "snake" will attack each other's head & heels?

Hoshana Rabbah 1946 (0ctober 16, 1946) When They Hanged the Nazi War Criminals 16.10.2022 2:45 ↓

בַּאֲבוֹד רְשָׁעִים רִנָּה

Hoshana Rabbah’s Historical Development 14.10.2022 35:44 ↓

Does הֻשְׁעֲנָה רַבָּה mean "the day of the willows?" Or "the day of the salvation"?

The shaking of the lulav in six directions. What does it mean? 13.10.2022 28:36 ↓

A 21st century original interpretation

Isaac Leeser, Rabbi Rice, and the Esrogim Controversy of 1847 - A Slice of American Jewish History 13.10.2022 1:07:25 ↓

The Reform Rabbi who claimed to be more observant on Sukkos than the Gaon Rabbi Rice

The קְטֹרֶת vs. the אַרְבָּעָה מִינִים: Two Different Models of Jewish אַחְדוּת 09.10.2022 33:13 ↓

There's a difference between having no טַעַם וְרֵיחַ, and having a bad טַעַם וְרֵיחַ!

The "sicknesses" that are the subject of בִּרְכַּת "רְפָאֵנוּ" בִּשְׁמוֹנֶה עֶשְׂרֵה 07.10.2022 35:47 ↓

What are the "מַכּוֹת" you pray to be saved from ( if you daven אַשְׁכְּנַז)?

The Intermediate Days Between Yom Kippur and Sukkos in Light of Parshas Haazinu - An Analysis 07.10.2022 34:06 ↓

What day is REALLY the רִאשׁוֹן לְחֶשְׁבּוֹן עֲווֹנוֹת?

Sukkos - Two Different Experiences: The Communally Shared? Or the Individual Family History? 06.10.2022 37:03 ↓

עַנְנֵי הַכָּבוֹד אוֹ סֻכּוֹת מַמָּשׁ? -Which is it

Haftarah Haazinu: Isaiah "Calls Out" the Repugnant "Frum-Capitalist Fast". 03.10.2022 35:45 ↓

Worry less about your ritual עִנּוּיִים, and more about the actual daily עִנּוּיִים of the poor and the downtrodden

Parshas Haazinu: Did receiveing the Torah leave Moshe physically and psychologically spent? 03.10.2022 33:32 ↓

Is wealth and ease dangerous to Jews and Judaism? Chazal thought so

Jewish Disunity: Do We Mourn it or Just Accept it Like the Air? 03.10.2022 46:08 ↓

Analyzing Modern Jewish History in Terms of the Centrifugal vs. Centripetal Tendencies 

The Difference Between Yom Kippur in the Biblical Era, and Afterwards 02.10.2022 35:26 ↓

If four of the עִנּוּיִים are rabbinic, when were they legislated, and why?

Hashiveinu HaShem- A Mystical Prayer, or a Rational One? 29.09.2022 28:03 ↓

תְּשׁוּבָה שְׁלֵמָה - that's tough!!