Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz

Turkey today is more of a threat than Iran!

Past history PLUS future historical (cyclical?) patterns https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

The two faces of France in its dealings with Israel

If you go by the Talmudic literature, there was other oil available, but they started with the oil in the famous jar and it burned for eight days. https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

Why didn't Jacob send messengers to his father Yitzchak? Instead of to Esau? https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

The challenges of living in צְפַת in the terrible 1830s How to live in the old אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל without being victimized by the חֲלֻקָּה system

Sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Mordy Gardyn 'in honor of my parents may they have אֲרִיכַת יָמִים וְשָׁנִים and sponsored by "a member of the local fan club"🙂 How can you get a unified response to crisis when the theological causes are not clear?  וְאֶל עַל יִקְרָאֻהוּ יַחַד לֹא יְרוֹמֵםhttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

Why does Israel release live Arab terrorists (who admit they will kill again if they can!) in exchange for the corpses of Jewish dead? Is this a Halachic thing? A Zionist thing?

Let's examine the image of the ladder closely

When Arabs slaughtered (literally) the Jew in Hebron in 1929, the Communist Party said it was the fault of the Jews and the Arabs were in the right. And Jewish Communists sided with the Party! Similar things are happening today ... https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

If the Hebrew language pre-existed the physical world, then it is not subject to the rules of linguistic evolution, and if is constitutive of the physical world and its history, then the non physical interpretations are NOT at the expense of the literal meanings. https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

Was Alfred Dreyfus really a self-hating or self-denying assimilated Jew?

"אֶת עֵקֶב אָהַבְתִּי וְאֶת עֵשָׂו שָׂנֵאתִי" - ?Why

Giving the Jewish POV of Genesis to the world of European Intellectuals in the 17th Century

Yaakov acquires claim to Israel through purchase, a sale subsequently resented by the seller. Sounds like Jewish History in Israel 1880-1948 https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

One of the great speeches in the English language of the 20th century חֲבָל עַל דְּאָבְדִין וְלָא מִשְׁתַּכְחִין https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

Whole busloads come to Baltimore every week to pray at the kever of a person who, a short time ago, was unknown...

Was it just a case of political intrigue? Or did people sincerely distrust Nathan re: the David Bathsheba story?

Abraham's visit to his relatives in אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

It all goes back to 1657 and that strange episode of English Christian would-be missionaries who sent money to Jerusalem to save the starving Jews there. https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

Elisha does not blame the death of the child on the woman's sins. "The Buck stops here!"

כִּי הִנֵּה אוֹיְבֶיךָ יֶהֱמָיוּן וּמְשַׂנְאֶיךָ נָשְׂאוּ רֹאשׁ: ד עַל עַמְּךָ יַעֲרִימוּ סוֹד וְיִתְיָעֲצוּ עַל צְפוּנֶיךָ: ה אָמְרוּ לְכוּ וְנַכְחִידֵם מִגּוֹי וְלֹא יִזָּכֵר שֵׁם יִשְׂרָאֵל עוֹד: ו כִּי נוֹעֲצוּ לֵב יַחְדָּו עָלֶיךָ בְּרִית יִכְרֹתוּ: ז אָהֳלֵי אֱדוֹם וְיִשְׁמְעֵאלִים

According to Rashbam, there is no tikkun sofrim in this parsha! https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

The fight over the language of קְרִיאַת הַתּוֹרָה בְּבֵית הַכְּנֶסֶת

Are we seeing a long-internalized resentment by Italian Catholics to the liberalized theology towards the Jews adopted by The Church in 1965?