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
Mentioned books
Mar 26, 2025 • 40min
R’ Chaim Sinwani of Yemen and Israel (1897-1979)
A great Talmid Chacham and Mekubal who suffered from secular Zionist persecution in the 1940s. The complicated story of Yemenite Jewry in the first half of the 20th century.
Mar 24, 2025 • 24min
Haftarah HaChodesh: Princely corruption even in the time of the Third Temple?
The Prophet admonishes the Princes to stop evicting Jews from their ancestral land and expropriating the land in order to gift their own children and employees
Mar 24, 2025 • 24min
Parshas Pekudei- מִי הָיוּ לֵצָנֵי הַדּוֹר
The cynics were those who did not contribute (either out of stinginess or laziness), who now projected thir own guilt feelings onto Moshe and the Mishkan Project.
Mar 24, 2025 • 36min
Trump, Polk, Bibi: Some cautionary lessons from the past
Sometimes, military victory leads to civil war! Success requires philosophy to be managed sagaciously
Mar 20, 2025 • 25min
Haftarah Parshas Parah- Jewish misconduct in the lands of exile
The supreme virtue of being ashamed of your misconduct. Is this happening currently?
Mar 20, 2025 • 28min
Parshas VaYakhel- No fire outside the miskan, but yes fire inside the mishkan!
Most fights break out in shul on Shabbos - לֹא תְבַעֲרוּ אֵשׁ בְּכֹל מֹשְׁבֹתֵיכֶם בְּיוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת
Mar 19, 2025 • 1h 8min
Purim live 5785 (2025)
Live from Baltimore
Mar 17, 2025 • 22min
Tefilah: Why does God say to Moses : לֹא תוּכַל לִרְאֹת אֶת פָּנָי, but subsequently וְדִבֵּר הַשֵּׁם עִם מֹשֶׁה פָּנִים אֶל פָּנִים?
Some thoughts on the limited, philosophical approach to prayer vs. the mystical approach to prayer
Mar 17, 2025 • 56min
Donald Trump's fascination with America's 11th President James K. Polk (1845-1849)
Intensely partisan, a slaveholder, a great liar, Polk is one of the great presidents, who doubled the territory of the USA. In the words of Trump, "He got a lot of land!" Will this affect Gaza?
Mar 16, 2025 • 25min
17th of Adar: Anniversary of a massacre and rescue in Northern Syria of Chachmei Yisroel
The opposite of today - at that time there was civil war in Israel and peace in Syria ... or so they thought!
