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Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz
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The Episode of Elephantine: A Jewish Garrison on the Egyptian-Sudan Border in the Times of Ezra, Nehemiah & Co.
50 mins; October 07, 2024
Confession on Yom Kippur: Competing Sensibilities
26 mins; October 07, 2024
Yom Kippur and the Oct. 7th Massacres: R' Katz Responds to a Query
30 mins; October 06, 2024
Haftarah Ha'azinu: The Power of Words
25 mins; October 01, 2024
Parshas Ha'azinu: The speech of Moshe to the elites (having given up on the masses)
32 mins; October 01, 2024
An Analysis of the Current Israeli Invasion of South Lebanon
18 mins; September 30, 2024
R' Katz speculates on the historical origin of the custom of blowing the shofar to confuse the Satan
28 mins; September 30, 2024
The Historical Background of the Dispute Between the Geonim and the Rambam on the Break in the Tradition of What the Teruah is
33 mins; September 26, 2024
R' Katz analyzes the current situation in the Middle East
30 mins; September 25, 2024
Haftarah Nitzavim-VaYelech: The United Nations will Applaud Israel ... in the Messianic Era!
22 mins; September 24, 2024
Parshas Nitzavim-VaYelech: Above all, Moshe fears the hypocrites in his audience
25 mins; September 24, 2024
The Ben Ish Chai and Baghdad, Pt. 2: Thinking historically about the Ben Ish Chai and the remarkable Jewish community of Baghdad in the 19th century
53 mins; September 23, 2024
Tekiah Teruah Tekiah: Joy, Weeping, Joy: Symbolism in the Ritual
28 mins; September 19, 2024
Haftarah Parshas Ki Savo - Isaiah paints the Jewish Utopia
24 mins; September 18, 2024
The Ben Ish Chai and Baghdad, Pt. 1: Thinking historically about the Ben Ish Chai and the remarkable Jewish community of Baghdad in the 19th century
51 mins; September 17, 2024
Parshas Ki Savo: The Terrible Tochecha - Why is Devarim's worse than VaYikra's?
26 mins; September 17, 2024
Haftarah Ki Seitzei: The woman who medically could not bear children suddenly has sextuplets!
31 mins; September 11, 2024
Thoughts on the curved shofar vs. the straight shofar
31 mins; September 11, 2024
Parshas Ki Seitzei: Amalek in Our Parsha and the Attack on October 7
29 mins; September 09, 2024
The Expulsion from Prague (1745) and The Network of Rich European Jews: A Tale of Achdus
58 mins; September 08, 2024
Haftarah Parshat Shoftim: Redemption comes to a battered and bloodied Jewish People
29 mins; September 05, 2024
Parshas Shoftim: The False Prophet in Jewish History
34 mins; September 05, 2024
The Expulsion from Prague (1745) and The Network of Rich European Jews: A Tale of Achdus, Pt. 1
52 mins; September 03, 2024
Elul and the Current Situation in the State of Israel
29 mins; September 02, 2024
Haftorah Parsha Re'eh - The glorious house with the diamond chandeliers
24 mins; August 29, 2024
Pirkei Avos - אַל תַּעַשׂ תְּפִלָּתְךָ קֶבַע
28 mins; August 27, 2024
Parshas Re'eh: "V'Yishavtem Betach" Secure Internally? Or Externally?
26 mins; August 26, 2024
The Great Semicha Controversy of Safed (צפת): The controversy in the 16th century within the broad framework of Jewish History
50 mins; August 25, 2024
Abraham haKohen Herera of Italy andAmsterdam (c. 1570-1635)
59 mins; August 25, 2024
Parshas Eikev: The 3 Great Dangers
28 mins; August 22, 2024
Haftarah Eikev: Isaiah predicts the rescue of the hostages in Gaza!
24 mins; August 19, 2024
15th of Av 2024 - The Dance of the Maidens
25 mins; August 19, 2024
Pirkei Avos: אַל תִּתְחַבֵּר לָרָשָׁע
33 mins; August 18, 2024
The Role of Moshe in the "Second" Ten Commandments (Parshas VaEschanan)
26 mins; August 14, 2024
Haftarah Shabbos Nachamu: Glorious news to a battered people
27 mins; August 14, 2024
Parshas VaEschanan: Gratitude and Ingratitude
27 mins; August 14, 2024
Kinnos, Pt. 2
44 mins; August 13, 2024
Kinnos, Pt. 1
227 hours 37 mins; August 13, 2024
Tisha b"Av 2024 (5784)
25 mins; August 12, 2024
Pirkei Avos, Ch. 4: R' Masia ben Cheresh
27 mins; August 11, 2024
Haftarah Parshas Chazon: Isaiah blasts the hypocrisy of the Jewish leadership class
25 mins; August 07, 2024
Parshas Devarim: A Geographical Nightmare
31 mins; August 07, 2024
Pirkei Avos, Chapter 2: Rabbi Gamliel Jr. and תּוֹרָה עִם דֶּרֶךְ אֶרֶץ
26 mins; August 06, 2024
Glory, Tragedy, and Identity Fluidity: A tale of a modern Ger Tzedek in Germany a century ago
42 mins; August 06, 2024
The Jewish general who commanded the Roman armies that destroyed the Bais HaMikdash
36 mins; August 05, 2024
Revenge, the Current Middle East Crisis and Parshas Matos
31 mins; August 01, 2024
Haftorah Three Weeks - The Jewish Trait of Ingratitude (Jeremiah Ch. 2)
28 mins; August 01, 2024
Pirkei Avos Ch.1: Why does it say Moshe got the Torah from Sinai? Sinai did not give him the Torah!
26 mins; July 30, 2024
Parshas Matos-Masei: Why the Jews could not get Egypt out of their systems even after 42 journeys
27 mins; July 30, 2024
Chinuch in the 20th Century from the Perspective of the 21st
50 mins; July 28, 2024
פרקי אבות פרק ו
26 mins; July 25, 2024
Haftarah Bein HaMitzarim
26 mins; July 23, 2024
Parshas Pinchas: Bilaam, Pinchas and the Hamas Attacks
29 mins; July 23, 2024
The presidential elections of 2024 versus the presidential elections of 1892
46 mins; July 18, 2024
The two models of שְׁאֵרִית יַעֲקֹב בְּקֶרֶב עַמִּים רַבִּים
30 mins; July 15, 2024
Bilam and the modern Hamasniks ימ"ש
28 mins; July 15, 2024
Why Abraham vs. Bilam? Why not Moshe vs. Bilam?
25 mins; July 15, 2024
Rabbi Katz is having a lecture series starting next week on Zionism in its early years
7 mins; July 15, 2024
A dvar Torah on מסכת ברכות on the 16th יארצייט of Rabbi Katz's mother ע"ה
25 mins; July 09, 2024
Was יפתח violent and crimes oriented ( in his first iteration)? Or a kid mistreated by the ציבור?
31 mins; July 09, 2024
What is the context of אַל תְּהִי בָז לְכָל אָדָם? Could it have involved שידוכים?
28 mins; July 08, 2024
What EXACTLY was the sin of משה
30 mins; July 08, 2024
Two famous icons of anti-religious culture: what caused them to go otd?
30 mins; July 07, 2024
The “Old Haskalah” - Comfortably Nestled within Cultural Insularity
88 hours 8 mins; July 05, 2024
Do you fire a good leader because they are old?
24 mins; June 30, 2024
How could Korach successfully challenge the bona fides of Moses? After מַתַּן תּוֹרָה!
30 mins; June 30, 2024
Pirkei Avos chapter 3: the social interaction aspect of piety
34 mins; June 30, 2024
Herzl's unsuccessful attempts to find a country who would get the Turks to give up Palestine
58 mins; June 27, 2024
The remarkable career of רָחָב
23 mins; June 25, 2024
Parshas Shlach and October 7th
29 mins; June 25, 2024
R’ Chanina Sgan Kohanim and His Conservative Political Philosophy (Avos Ch. 3)
30 mins; June 24, 2024
Herzl, Political Zionism, and the Campus Riots, Pt. 6
59 mins; June 20, 2024
Observations about politics in the dynasty of Hillel, Pirkei Avos, Ch. 2
27 mins; June 18, 2024
The prophet describes the intermarriage scandal, but in oblique language
25 mins; June 18, 2024
Parshas BeHaaloscha: Who is חוֹבׇב exactly?
34 mins; June 18, 2024
R Katz analyzes the current extremely dangerous International situation. Are we headed for World War
30 mins; June 17, 2024
Genazym is offering the original edition of the ב"ח
76 hours 23 mins; June 16, 2024
Shavuos: Grass, Trees, and Roses. Was there vegetation at Mount sinai?
27 mins; June 11, 2024
Was Hashem originally planning to do מתן תורה at another location?
34 mins; June 10, 2024
The Rambam's Philosophical Problems with מַעֲמַד הַר סִינַי
37 mins; June 10, 2024
Genazym is auctioning a Renaissance edition of Azarya de Rossi's controversial book.
38 mins; June 09, 2024
Hosea tells the Jews not to turn away from Hashem and trust their "allies"
38 mins; June 05, 2024
What was the relationship between the two luchos and the rest of the Torah?
30 mins; June 04, 2024
Theodore Herzl, Political Zionism, and the Current Campus Riots - Part 5
53 mins; June 04, 2024
Yom Yersushalyim: No country recognizes Jerusalem as legally being Israeli territory
44 mins; June 03, 2024
Hereditary Elites vs. Meritocratic Elites (Pirkei Avos, Ch. 6)
27 mins; June 02, 2024
Haftarah Bechukosai: Jeremiah (לְפִי הָאַבַּרְבָּנֵאל) discusses the chemistry of הִשְׁתַּדְּלוּת and בִּטָּחוֹן
33 mins; May 30, 2024
Parshas Bechukosai: The תוכחה was pronounced right after the Ten Commandments
37 mins; May 29, 2024
The David Jonathan Friendship: Was it a two-way street?
27 mins; May 28, 2024
Herzl, Political Zionism, and campus riots part 4
58 mins; May 27, 2024
More on the ibn Ezra, within his particular historical context, the time before the fall
58 mins; May 26, 2024
Lag b'Omer: When did רשב"י write the Zohar?
32 mins; May 26, 2024
The theory that both בְּהַר & בְּחֻקּוֹתַי were pronounced in פָּרָשַׁת מִשְׁפָּטִים בְּסֵפֶר שְׁמ
28 mins; May 24, 2024
Haftarah Behar: Jeremiah and the land deal - Preserving hope among the doomed
30 mins; May 22, 2024
Biden: It's a good thing we have a President who grew up with the JEWISH version of the Holocaust
45 mins; May 21, 2024
When exactly did the 24,000 students die? What was the historical context?
29 mins; May 21, 2024
The Bitter, Non-Frum Opposition to Herzl and His Proposal-Theodore Herzl, Political Zionism, Pt. 3:
42 mins; May 20, 2024
Gain Mastery of Hilchos Shabbos in This Online Program
3 mins; May 20, 2024
Haftarah Emor: Who are the people referred to strangely as הַכֹּהֲנִים ַלְּוִיִּי?
29 mins; May 16, 2024
Parshas Emor: The existential struggle against worshipping כּוֹחוֹת הַטֻּמְאָה
29 mins; May 14, 2024
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