Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz

Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz
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Sep 10, 2023 • 44min

R’ Joseph Ottolenghi: The One Whose Work You Skip Over in the Back of the Gemara

When Cremona was a center of Torah, Torah printing, and Torah burning
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Sep 8, 2023 • 3min

Rabbi Katz is leading a tour of the Bible Museum in DC on חול המועד סוכות

The tour will take place on Tuesday Chol haMoed
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Sep 8, 2023 • 59min

R’ Menachem Mendel Gluskin of Minsk and Leningrdad: Trying to Be Jewish Under Stalin

The suffering of religious Jews at the hands of the regime and of the Jewish Communists
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Sep 6, 2023 • 38min

The First Zohar Ever Printed-Cremona 1559 - Offered by Genazym

The same Pope who burned all the Gemaras and סִפְרֵי נִגְלֶה permitted publishing the Zohar...for nefarious reasons
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Sep 6, 2023 • 28min

Haftarah Netzavim-Vayelech: Isaiah's Vision of the Future - Redemption, But Not Followed By Peace

Jerusalem is attacked. No one helps her, so Hashem personally intervenes and executes bloody vengeance
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Sep 5, 2023 • 33min

Parshas Netzavim-VaYelech: Moses' Demand for Perfection Runs into Human Nature

Although he originally demanded the Jews circumcise their own hearts, in the end he acknowledges it will have to come from G-d
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Sep 4, 2023 • 30min

Elul: No Protection Against the Satan This Year on the First Day of Rosh Hashanah

Why did the חכמים prohibit the shofar on Shabbos?
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Sep 4, 2023 • 38min

Responsa Mahari ben Lev From Genazym (1598)

Printed in the luxurious palace of Gracia Mendes' daughter in Constantinople in 1598. Gracia, Joseph Nasi, Donna Reyna, a family of exemplary Sephardic richie-riches
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Sep 3, 2023 • 56min

More on the New שׁוּ"ת חוּט הַשָּׁנִי Edition and the Famous Controversies of Yesteryear

The חוֹלֵץ who deliberately put the shoe on the wrong foot, to prevent his "in-laws" from cheating him
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Aug 31, 2023 • 35min

Parshas Ki Savo: Abarbanel Applies the תּוֹכָחָה to the Marranos

Sforno decries the Jews who go to non-Jewish courts: אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים!

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