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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Mar 31, 2022 • 54min
Rabbi Katz discusses Red Wine on Passover and the Blood Libel
Rabbi JS Bloch of Vienna, the champion against the blood libelers
Mar 30, 2022 • 28min
Parshas Tazria: Lashon Hara and צָרַעַת. Did Everyone Who Spoke It Get Tzaraas? It Doesn't Seem So
If it requires a miracle to combat לָשׁוֹן הָרַע, what are we to do nowadays?
Mar 29, 2022 • 47min
Origins of the Passover Seder: An Analysis on the Creation of the Seder and Its Historical Context
The Seder - a response to an outraged Egyptian counter-narrative of the Exodus
Mar 27, 2022 • 45min
The Maharal on the Egyptianized Jews and Rabbi Katz’ Reflections
The plagues forced assimilated Jews (spared, unlike their neighbors) to acknowledge their Jewish identity
Mar 25, 2022 • 30min
The Famous Piyut of Kaliri on the The Red Heifer Ceremony: אֲצוּרָה וּמֻפְרָשָׁהּ
For Parshas Parah, Kaliri imitates the piyutim describing the Yom Kippur ceremony
Mar 24, 2022 • 24min
Haftarah Shmini: A Bitter Prediction of a Glorious Future for an Undeserving Jewish People
The classic bitter prophecy about a Redemption that is בְּעִתָּהּ וְלֹא בְּאֲחִישֶׁנָּה
Mar 23, 2022 • 30min
Parshas Shmini: Aaron was Publicly, Ashamed, But Not Moses! (The Noam Elimelech vs. the Kli Yakar)
Why was the innovation of the two sons fatal, but not the innovation of Aaron?
Mar 21, 2022 • 49min
Putin’s Mind: Rabbi Katz Analyzes What's Going on Inside His Head
Putin and Zelensky - a modern Shechem and Dena
Mar 20, 2022 • 1h 39min
The Unknown Story of Rabbi Margulies and the Fight for Yiddishkeit in Modern Italy and Florence
A Conservative Rabbi who inspired cultured Italian Jews to Emunah, Torah, and Mitzvos
Mar 18, 2022 • 35min
Jeremiah Blasts the Degeneration of the Korbanos-System to the Point of Human-Sacrifice
The fascinating interpretation of The Guide to the Perplexed on Jeremiah's message in this Haftarah
