

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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!


