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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Jun 30, 2023 • 28min
Haftarah Balak: What is the מוּסָר הַשְׂכֵּל the Prophet extracts from the Bilam story?
When do קָרְבָּנוֹת appeal to God? When do they not?
Jun 29, 2023 • 32min
Parshas Balak: Unlike Balaam, the Patriarchs built 7 altars but did not offer sacrifices on them
What was Balaams pitch to Hashem? Why was it an historic moment?
Jun 29, 2023 • 29min
Parshas Chukas: Are the Two Stories of Hitting the Rock (בשלח and חוקת) One and the Same?
When exactly was the final חומש text dictated to Moshe?
Jun 26, 2023 • 58min
Korach as a Leadership Type in Jewish History in the Diaspora
Gentile authorities had more to do with the Korachs than the Moshes
Jun 23, 2023 • 37min
Dvar Torah on כריתות at yahrtzeit siyum for R Katz's mother
אָשָׁם תָּלוּי -אַהֲבָה אוֹ יִרְאָה?
Jun 23, 2023 • 30min
Haftarah Korach: Why Did G-d (and Samuel) Choose the Inexperienced Saul?
Shmuel ha-Navi: A Class-Act
Jun 22, 2023 • 44min
The Burning of the Talmud in Paris on Parshas Chukas- Memory vs. History
The Pope and the Church: How they viewed the Talmud
Jun 21, 2023 • 34min
Parshas Korach: Korach and the Power of "Spin"
Are the masses existentially gullible?
Jun 20, 2023 • 46min
R’ Cordovero on the Summum Bonum- different departments of Heaven
The different הֵיכָלוֹת and their different "rewards"
Jun 19, 2023 • 55min
Capsali's History of the Turkish Empire
Why Would a Chashuva Rov Write a History of the Turks? Could the Ottoman empire be the מַלְכוּת יִשְׁמָעֵאל, last of the Four Kingdoms, followed by מָשִׁיחַ?
