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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Parshas Toldos (2020): The Portentous Oracle - “Rav Yaavod Tzair” 19.11.2020 33:42
What is the Bachurah?
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: The Only Orthodox Rabbi to Make a Kiddush Hashem in "the World." 17.11.2020 36:08
Is respectful and genuine dialogue with all really a Jewish value?
Adonijah: Is This a Coup? Is This a Rebellion? - Haftarah Chayai Sara 12.11.2020 33:58
Why is David unclear about the succession? Avraham wasn't!
Parshas Chayai Sara: The Strange and Enigmatic Keturah Story 11.11.2020 38:38
What's the significance of Abraham's children from his old age?
“The Maharik” (R’ Joseph Colon): The Greatest Gadol in Italian History 11.11.2020 54:04
The Influence of Classic Ashkenaz on Italian Jewry
The "Gechazi Phenomenon" Then and Now - Haftarah Vayera 06.11.2020 37:47
The Gadol and the hypocritical and unscrupulous secretary/screener
Parshas VaYera: Whatever Happened to Lot, Anyway? 03.11.2020 35:28
Why did G-d grant land to Lot's progeny in perpetuity? Why are both daughters ancestors of the Messiah?
Rabbi Abraham Rice, the First Rov in the USA. Tragedy of a Talmid Chacham in a Philistine Jewish Community 02.11.2020 1:35:20
What does it take to be a "successful" Rabbi in a materialistic Jewish community?
Parshas Lech Lecha: Abraham and the Two Fateful Interviews With Sodom and Malki Tzedek 29.10.2020 43:58
A callous act leads to galus mitzrayim as poetic justice
R' Aryeh Tzvi Fromer: One of the Last of the Great Poilishe Geonim and Author of the Fascinating Responsa Eretz Tzvi 29.10.2020 1:39:50
The Hasid in the role of Rosh Yeshivah and Maggid Shiur. Pilpul as fun!
Parshas Noach: Why Couldn't G-d Think of an Alternative to Mass Genocide? 23.10.2020 31:30
Is it possible to "kill" the Yetzer Tov?
The Maharashdam- R' Shmuel de Medina of Salonika (1505-1589): One of the Greatest Sephardic Responsa Writers of All Time 21.10.2020 1:46:03
From the Golden Age of A+ level, Sephardic Poskim. Calm, compassionate, daring.
R’ Katz's new lecture series will be livestreamed Saturday nights at 9:00 PM 16.10.2020 1:39
You can access the livestream on Rabbi Katz's YouTube channel, "Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz"
Parshas Bereishis: Blaming the Snake 16.10.2020 38:08
The snake in Paradise and the frum riots in NY and Israel
R Shmuel Landau, Son of the Noda B'Yehudah (1750-1834): The Challenge of Being a Great Man's Son 14.10.2020 1:50:02
Would have been a worthy successor to his father, but historical trends were in the wrong direction
Rabbi Samson Morpurgo of Ancona: Classic Italian "Torah u-Madda" 07.10.2020 1:23:30
A wonderful example of a Posek who is "normal"
R' Hile Wechsler: Yekke Critic of German Jewry, Criticized by Contemporaries But Vindicated (Terribly) by History 06.10.2020 1:57:12
A dreamer of incredible accuracy. He foresaw the Holocaust long before it happened. Admirer & critic of R' S.R. Hirsch
The Meaning of the Ushpizin Ceremony - Perception vs. Reality (Sukkos 2020) 05.10.2020 39:33
When outsiders use "insider" terms, incorrectly
Sukkos 2020: The History of the Sukkah as a Diras Kevah? 02.10.2020 54:38
Revolution in “Sukkah consciousness" in the time of Ezra? A theory
R' Betzalel Ransburg (1760-1820): The Great Prague Scholar With a Gift for Making Lomdus Chatty 30.09.2020 1:00:54
One of the last and most readable of the great Chachmei Prague , and author of Horah Gaver and Pesichas Niddah.
Parshas Haazinu: The Interplay Between Divine Providence and Antisemitism 24.09.2020 43:21
A comparison of two different visions of Moses: Haazinu v. Nitzavim
Yaakov HaLevi Lifschitz (1838-1922): The Brilliant and Controversial Secretary of R’ Y.E. Spector 21.09.2020 1:34:30
The behind-the-scenes director of the "foreign-policy" of R’ Yitzchak Elchanan and a pioneer in the formation of a Russian-Jewish "Orthodox" (not Traditionalist) Judaism; one of the first Haredi "ideologists"
Rosh HaShanah 5781: If the Jewish People Unite, Do They Need to Repent? 16.09.2020 52:03
יראת הרוממות אחדות ושופר Is there a connection
R' Meir Malbim (1809-1879): The Only Gadol in Lomdus Who Decided to Concentrate on Explaining Tanach 15.09.2020 1:00:52
The Malbim's unique analysis of the relation between the Written Torah and the Oral Torah.
Parshas Nitzavim-VaYelech: What Does V’Hashevosah El L’Vovechah Mean and Can It Be Translated? 10.09.2020 42:06
Can the Moshiach come at any moment? Meaning, literally right now?
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