Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz
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Rabbi 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.
Latest episodes
Jul 17, 2025 • 34min
Haftarah Pinchas: The Relationship between Pinchas and Eliyahu -Are they literally the same person?
Moses says הָרְגֵנִי נָא הָרוֹג. Pinchas says קַח נַפְשִׁי. What is the difference?https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
Jul 16, 2025 • 46min
The Druze, Syria, Israel, and the USA - An Analysis
The Existential Dilemma facing Bibi: Making Peace with Syria, but also bombing Syria to save the Syrian Druze (thereby giving מְנוּחַת הַנֶּפֶשׁ to the Israeli Druze). A very complicated story!
Jul 16, 2025 • 27min
The Influence of R' Saadia Gaon on the Rambam and all the other Medieval Jewish Philosophers
Many of the ideas in the מוֹרֵה נְבוֹכִים, הַכּוּזָרִי, הַחוֹבוֹת הַלְּבָבוֹת, יַד רמ"ה, הָעִקָּרִים, וְכוּלְהוּ actually were already written in the אֱמוּנוֹת וְדֵעוֹת
Jul 15, 2025 • 34min
Isaac Ochberg of Cape Town (1878-1937): Rescuer of Orphans from World War I
A South African "Jewish Jew" who went to wartorn Ukraine in 1920, then in the midst of massacres of Jews, and brought 200 Jewish orphans to safety in South Africa
Jul 14, 2025 • 29min
Parshas Pinchas: The Bloody Discrepancies
Why did the Civil Wars between the Tribes in the Desert degenerate into exterminatory massacres?
Jul 10, 2025 • 29min
Bilam's observation of הֶן עָם לְבָדָד יִשְׁכֹּן and the current phenomenon of Jews being abandoned by their supposed "allies"
So many Jews have deluded themselves that they were building "alliances" only to discover on October 7th that they had been building on sand
Jul 9, 2025 • 26min
What is the Oldest Source for the "Three Weeks"?
Daniel fasts out of consternation at Cyrus' stop-order re: the building of the Second Templehttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
Jul 8, 2025 • 25min
Haftarah Balak: Will some Jews choose to remain in Chutz L'Eretz in the Messianic Era?
Is the Messianic Utopia only for the Jews? Or for all mankind?
Jul 8, 2025 • 56min
Quaker Ger Tzedek: Warder Cresson of Philadelphia and Jerusalem (1798-1861)
The Famous Trial in 1849: Is conversion to Judaism an indication of mental insanity?
Jul 8, 2025 • 26min
Parshas Balak: Bil'am and the Current War in Gaza
Contrast the two stories: a.) The King of Arad b.) Bil'am, the lethal rhetoric, and the Bnos Moavhttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
