Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz
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.
https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz
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.
Episodes
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Oct 30, 2025 • 30min
Part 1: The Other "Hellenistic Judaism" - not the Chanukah villains
The other Hellenistic Judaism, not identical with Talmudic Judaism (but not un-frum) but more widespread, once upon a time .Part 1 of a 2 part serieshttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
Oct 28, 2025 • 25min
הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת לֶךְ לְךָ תשפ"ו - Drawing inspiration from Abraham's victory over the Four Kings
Though outnumbered, Klal Yisroel will rip through the enemy like a thresher. So do not succumb to enemy efforts to undermine your moralehttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
Oct 27, 2025 • 24min
Parshas Lech Lecha: "And he will be a wild donkey of a man..."
Resh Lakish "Yishmael will be into kidnapping people and taking hostages"!https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
Oct 26, 2025 • 24min
The Abarbanel on the Stories in Genesis: The relationship between literal and symbolic meanings of Scripture
When did full-blown idolatry begin? AFTER the Flood. Isn't that strange?https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
Oct 20, 2025 • 24min
Haftarah Noach: The Flood as a metonymy for Jewish suffering down the Ages...
Just as G-d promised no more floods that can destroy the entire human race, so too He promises not to destroy the entire Jewish People.
Oct 20, 2025 • 27min
Parshas Noach: Noah and "the Day After"
Noah walked "with G-d," but could not get ahead of G-d, that is, he did not establish rules for the survivors of the Flood to ensure they would not revert to sin. IOW Noah was good but not great.https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
Oct 19, 2025 • 27min
Is Donald Trump a "Second Cyrus"?
The first Cyrus was a complex figure in Jewish history. The battle of the lobbyists at the ancient Persian Court. A playbook for Qatar? https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
Oct 19, 2025 • 43min
Rabbeinu Tam and Count Henry I of Champagne (and Countess Marie)
Was Rabbeinu Tam a kind of French nobleman? Why did he practice falconry ? Why did the Count of Champagne turn to him to explain the David-Saul story?
Oct 16, 2025 • 22min
Haftarah Bereishis: Israel will survive (Al Aqsa) Floods and even the fires of internal strife
Who is it that 'has eyes but does not see, ears but does not hear"?https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
Oct 16, 2025 • 33min
Parshas Bereishis: The world was created for a UNITED Klal Yisroel
In a Jewish world with unbridgeable divisions, we must be alert to divinely-sent "opportunities that pass"
