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
Dec 4, 2025 • 35min
Israel & France (and Syria) : Connecting Dots
The two faces of France in its dealings with Israel
Dec 3, 2025 • 34min
Chanukah 2025: Was the oil in the jar in the Temple the only kosher oil available?
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
Dec 2, 2025 • 27min
Parshas VaYishlach: Why does Jacob say to Esau that he observed all 613 Mitzvos?
Why didn't Jacob send messengers to his father Yitzchak? Instead of to Esau?https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
Dec 1, 2025 • 1h 12min
The "בַּת עַיִן" in Historical Context (1765-1840)
The challenges of living in צְפַת in the terrible 1830sHow to live in the old אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל without being victimized by the חֲלֻקָּה system
Nov 27, 2025 • 30min
Haftarah VaYeitzei: Hoshea 11:7, an extremely difficult verse to parse
Sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Mordy Gardyn 'in honor of my parents may they have אֲרִיכַת יָמִים וְשָׁנִיםand 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
Nov 27, 2025 • 32min
What's with this Israeli preoccupation with the bodies of their dead, killed by Hamas & Co.?
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?
Nov 25, 2025 • 31min
Parshas VaYeitzei: What is Yaakov afraid of?
Let's examine the image of the ladder closely
Nov 25, 2025 • 33min
Some thoughts on Self-Hating and Self-Denying Jews in the current antisemitic climate, now and a century ago
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
Nov 24, 2025 • 27min
Answering a listener's query re: allegorical interpretations of Biblical stories in ultra-orthodox sources
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
Nov 20, 2025 • 47min
The Recent Posthumous Promotion of Alfred Dreyfus to General in the French Army
Was Alfred Dreyfus really a self-hating or self-denying assimilated Jew?
