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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R’ Dovid Sinzheim (1745-1812), Napoleon’s Sanhedrin and Alsatian Jewry. 10.02.2020 58:59
Author of the Yad Dovid on Shas, and the Gadol who had the misfortune to live in France during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.
Parshas Beshalach: Weren't They Supposed to Head Towards Mt. Sinai Anyway? 07.02.2020 28:47
Also, how did Dathan &Co. remain in Egypt, yet end up at Mt. Sinai?
Rabbenu Nissim ben Reuven (1315-1375): The " RaN in the Back of the Gemara" 04.02.2020 47:57
A leading MD who was one of the greatest writers among the Rishonim. He held no official rabbinical position, yet was the leading posek and gadol in difficult times.
This Coming Weekend 1/31/20-2/2/20 in the New Jersey-Monsey Area 30.01.2020 3:18
I will be in Livingston, NJ this Shabbos and in Monsey, Saturday Night, February 1st
The Tzemach Tzedek - R’ Menachem Mendel Krochmal, (1600-1661): A Fascinating Sefer of Responsa 30.01.2020 29:29
This is the Tzemach Tzedek “HaKadmon” of the 17th Century: A tribune of the poor, and opponent of "baloney "
Parshas Bo: The "Borrowers" 29.01.2020 22:33
What the Jews left behind in Egypt.
Parshas VaEra: The Ten Plagues as They Would Have Appeared to Egyptians and to Hebrews 24.01.2020 28:17
"Punishing the "gods" - לעשות שופטים באלוהי מצרים
Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler (1803-1890) 21.01.2020 46:38
“I am the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire” - Judaism is too important to be left in the hands of the bourgeoisie
Parshas Shemos: The Jews Who Didn't Want to Leave 17.01.2020 35:40
How many Jews were NOT present at Mt. Sinai?
Yosef ibn Naghrela - Son of Shmuel HaNagid and Vizier of the Kingdom of Granada, Spain (1035-1066): A Brilliant and Tragic Figure in the Golden Age of Spanish Jewry. 13.01.2020 43:14
How not to avoid antisemitism in a gentile world.
Parshas VaYechi: Canaanite Ancestors? 10.01.2020 28:00
The Strange Funeral of Yaakov Avinu
"The Shvus Yaakov" - Rabbi Yaakov Reischer (1661-1733) 07.01.2020 45:51
None are as blind as those who will not see.
Parshas Vayigash: The Gaping Holes in the Narrative 03.01.2020 26:52
Was there a reconciliation between the brothers?
The Chavos Yair (1639-1702) - R’ Yair Chaim Bacharach: A Famous Posek With No Luck in the Rabbinate 31.12.2019 40:46
A Gaon with Yekiishe virtues personified
Parshas Mikeitz: The Fifth Galus - Egypt 27.12.2019 32:04
Joseph the Virtuoso - Succeeding in two cultures at the same time. Role model? Or danger?
The " Sedei Chemed" (1834-1904) - Rabbi Haim Hezekiah Medini and Crimean Jewry 26.12.2019 49:52
The Sephardic Rabbi of the Crimean Jews (Krymchaks), who were neither Ashkenaz nor Sephard. A beloved figure . An early "Ovadia Yosef"
Is Chanukah a Biblical Holiday? 24.12.2019 42:27
Is Chanukah foretold in the Book of Daniel? Really?
Parshas VaYeshev: Disunity in the Family 19.12.2019 28:26
How easy it is to break up a family, how difficult it is to restore family unity.
Abraham Maimonides (1186-1237): Son of the Rambam, a Rishon in His Own Right 17.12.2019 49:17
The son who took the father's philosophy into philosophical- experiential mysticism, while completely avoiding credulity.
Parshas VaYishlach: The Rape of Dina in Kabbalistic Terms 12.12.2019 29:56
Competing notions of morality and propriety, and the deadly wages, thereof
The Maharshal (1510-1573) - The Most Colorful Rabbinic Personality of the Golden Age of Polish Jewry 11.12.2019 42:37
A perfectionist who was not only willing to dish out criticism, but was willing to accept it, as well. A rare quality.
Parshas VaYetzei: The Lavan Challenge in Jewish History and Meta-History 05.12.2019 24:12
Yaakov survives Lavan only by the skin of his teeth. A "Zionist" vort?
The Maharsha (1555-1631) 04.12.2019 36:23
The gadol who made his mother in law one of the most famous women in Jewish history, and the one man in the Golden Age of Polish Jewry whose book achieved canonical status in the study of the Talmud......And who was so normal!
Parshas Toldos: Yitzchak and the Palestinians, 4,000 years ago 27.11.2019 25:43
Why do Jewish females call themselves Yehudis?
R‘ Shalom Shachna of Lublin (1490-1559), the Golden Age of Polish Jewry 26.11.2019 40:38
Power, violence, scholarship, royal favor, and rosh yeshiva - an interesting, but possibly dangerous, combination
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