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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Aug 3, 2023 • 31min
The Arizal and Summum Bonum: If People Have Multiple "Souls," Which Ones Go Where?
What happens when two persons have the same relationship to a mitzvah?
Aug 2, 2023 • 59min
Tu B’Av: Is יוֹם שֶׁהֻתְּרוּ הַשְּׁבָטִים לָבֹא זֶה בָּזֶה the same as יוֹם שֶׁהֻתַּר בִּנְיָמִין
Did the corpses of ביתר remain intact (though mutilated from battle and torture)? Or was it the skeletons which survived intact?
Aug 2, 2023 • 32min
Haftarah Eikev: Did G-d Divorce the Kingdom of Yisroel (Not Judah)?
Why kind of a marriage does כלל ישראל have today with HaShem?
Aug 1, 2023 • 32min
Parshas Eikev: Why the Strange Phrase "וְאָכַלְתָּ אֶת כָּל הָעַמִּים "?
Why the strange anthropormism that Hashem was "crazy in love" with the Patriarchs and Matriarchs?
Aug 1, 2023 • 1h 1min
R’ Shlomo Dovid Kahana: The Greatest Gadol of the 20th Century You Never Heard of, Part I
A Litvish Gadol who ends up as Dayan of the largest hasidic community in the world Part 1
Jul 26, 2023 • 33min
The Radbaz (Who was Big in Both נִגְלֶה וְנִסְתָּר) Describes the Rambam's Attitude Towards Gehinnom
The wicked are indeed destroyed, but not before they suffer torture
Jul 25, 2023 • 32min
Parshas VaEschanan: Moshe Says That the חֻקִּים Will Inspire the Admiration of the Gentiles. Why?
Moshe is describing the wonderfully flexible תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה of long ago
Jul 25, 2023 • 29min
Tisha B'Av and Mesilas Yesharim: What is a Chasid (in the Classical Sense of the Term) Supposed to Think on Tisha B'Av?
Luzzatto on אֲבֵלוּת לִשְׁמָהּ עַל הַחֻרְבָּן
Jul 25, 2023 • 60min
Lewis Strauss - A Story About a Famous Reform Jew and His Connection to Klal Yisroel
Close with Hoover, Truman, & Eisenhower. Nemesis of Robert Oppenheimer. Helped Israel get the Atomic Bomb
Jul 24, 2023 • 41min
Robert Oppenheimer and מִדָּה כְּנֶגֶד מִדָּה
The Jews can never be safe, and neither can the non-Jews , after the developments of 1939-1945
