Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz
Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz
To help support this podcast, please consider giving a tax deductible contribution here: https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatzRabbi Dovid Katz, PhD is lauded for his extensive knowledge of Jewish History, his engaging and insightful lecture series, and eye opening historical international tours. Follow him weekly. New content released each week, including Personalities in Jewish History, Insights into Tefillah and Perspectives on the Haftarah and Parshah. Sponsorships of podcasts are available. He can be reached at the following email: rabbidkatz@gmail.com.
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Jul 9, 2026
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Episodes
The Four Sons in Modern Times 19.04.2022 33:33
R Moshe Feinstein; Should we still do הַקְהֵה אֶת שִׁנָּיו nowadays?
What was the 50th Level of Tumah? 18.04.2022 55:24
Sexual perversion and the remarkable connection to Egypt throughout the Biblical era.
The Piyut of Kaliri and Tosafos Megilas 25a 14.04.2022 30:24
Do you offer a korban pesach if it is an אוֹתוֹ וְאֶת בְּנוֹ ?
Seder Thoughts: The Difference Between the Sedorim of B'nai Brak and Lud (Rabbam Gamliel) 13.04.2022 41:24
What do you emphasize? The horrors? Or the miracles of that miraculous night?
Rambam vs. Raavad - Why the Egyptians Were Punished If It Was All Prophecied Beforehand 12.04.2022 32:28
Pharaoh brought it all on himself with his big fat mouth
The Cause of the Slavery and Suffering: The Abarbanel's Masterful Essay 12.04.2022 35:56
Were Joseph's brothers buried in Egypt? Are they still there today?
Rabbi Yaakov Mazeh of Moscow (1858-1924: The Best of the רַבָּנִים מִטַּעַם in Czarist Russia 11.04.2022 58:51
Defender of Judaism in the Beilis Trial. Author of scintillating Jewish memoirs, which everyone should read
Erdogan and Turkey’s Jew-Policy in Light of the History of the Last Century 11.04.2022 29:46
The Yad Hashem in the formation of the modern Middle East
Pesach: Why Exactly Did the Jews Leave Early? 11.04.2022 44:52
How did Pharaoh's new policy of infanticide trigger the end of slavery?
Piyut for Shabbos Hagadol by R Yosef Bonfils, pre-Rashi. Not the halachic poem 07.04.2022 33:40
The poet evokes the original Shabbos, the Saturdays the exhausted slaves rested and ate, with no time for spirituality
The Special-Role of Hyssop in Purifying Tzaraas and in the Original Passover (Parshas Metzora) 06.04.2022 34:47
The elaborate purification ritual: it is easier to contract leprosy than to be purified from it!
What Exactly is the Nature of Eliyahu HaNavi's "Kiruv-Project?" (Haftarah Shabbos HaGadol) 05.04.2022 31:11
The jaded Jews say God is "on the take," but then comes Judgment Day!
The Connection Between Charoses and the Blood Libel: An Argument by Rabbi Katz 04.04.2022 36:11
Originally, it was not Maror that was the symbol of the suffering, it was Charoses
The Historic Evolution of the Seder Over the Centuries: An Analysis by Rabbi Katz 04.04.2022 37:03
The changes after the חֻרְבָּן. The manipulations of the narrative for reasons of time and dignity.
Rav Moshe A. Amiel of Antwerp and Tel-Aviv (1882-1946) 03.04.2022 1:40:57
Talmid of R’ Chaim Ozer, but a leading Zionist author of a unique intro to lomdus
The Strange and Controversial Passage in Ezekiel That Almost Got the Book Buried (Haftara HaChodesh) 31.03.2022 28:13
Who is this mysterious נָשִׂיא? Rashi vs. מְנַחֵם בֶּן חֶלְבּוֹ
Rabbi Katz discusses Red Wine on Passover and the Blood Libel 31.03.2022 53:45
Rabbi JS Bloch of Vienna, the champion against the blood libelers
Parshas Tazria: Lashon Hara and צָרַעַת. Did Everyone Who Spoke It Get Tzaraas? It Doesn't Seem So 30.03.2022 27:48
If it requires a miracle to combat לָשׁוֹן הָרַע, what are we to do nowadays?
Origins of the Passover Seder: An Analysis on the Creation of the Seder and Its Historical Context 29.03.2022 46:37
The Seder - a response to an outraged Egyptian counter-narrative of the Exodus
The Maharal on the Egyptianized Jews and Rabbi Katz’ Reflections 27.03.2022 44:56
The plagues forced assimilated Jews (spared, unlike their neighbors) to acknowledge their Jewish identity
The Famous Piyut of Kaliri on the The Red Heifer Ceremony: אֲצוּרָה וּמֻפְרָשָׁהּ 25.03.2022 29:46
For Parshas Parah, Kaliri imitates the piyutim describing the Yom Kippur ceremony
Haftarah Shmini: A Bitter Prediction of a Glorious Future for an Undeserving Jewish People 24.03.2022 24:07
The classic bitter prophecy about a Redemption that is בְּעִתָּהּ וְלֹא בְּאֲחִישֶׁנָּה
Parshas Shmini: Aaron was Publicly, Ashamed, But Not Moses! (The Noam Elimelech vs. the Kli Yakar) 23.03.2022 30:14
Why was the innovation of the two sons fatal, but not the innovation of Aaron?
Putin’s Mind: Rabbi Katz Analyzes What's Going on Inside His Head 21.03.2022 48:52
Putin and Zelensky - a modern Shechem and Dena
The Unknown Story of Rabbi Margulies and the Fight for Yiddishkeit in Modern Italy and Florence 20.03.2022 1:38:47
A Conservative Rabbi who inspired cultured Italian Jews to Emunah, Torah, and Mitzvos
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