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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Sep 13, 2023 • 31min
Observations on Devarim: Why is Moshe's Rhetoric Harsher in סֵפֶר דְּבָרִים Than Elsewhere in the Chumash?
God sent a three-person team to lead כְּלַל יִשְׂרָאֵל . By Deuteronomy, two are dead
Sep 13, 2023 • 36min
Eating Before Shofar: The Historical Source for the Yeshivos Having a Kiddush Before Shofar-Blowing
Did this practice start in the 19th century in Lithuania?
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
