Sinopsis
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. He can be reached at the following email: rabbidkatz@gmail.com
Episodios
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The recent 50th anniversary (November 10, 1975) of Moynihan's great speech at the UN excoriating the אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם for offcially branding Zionism as Racism
13/11/2025 Duración: 29minOne of the great speeches in the English language of the 20th century חֲבָל עַל דְּאָבְדִין וְלָא מִשְׁתַּכְחִיןhttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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Rabbi Michoel Forshlager of Baltimore: His recent yahrtzeit and some thoughts on this remarkable gadol
13/11/2025 Duración: 54minWhole busloads come to Baltimore every week to pray at the kever of a person who, a short time ago, was unknown...
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הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת חַיֵּי שָׂרָה תשפ"ו Adonijah vs. Shlomo: the Background
13/11/2025 Duración: 28minWas it just a case of political intrigue? Or did people sincerely distrust Nathan re: the David Bathsheba story?
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Parshas Chayei Sarah: Why does Avrohom adjure Eliezer not to take a wife from the Bnos Knaani for Yitzchok?
10/11/2025 Duración: 34minAbraham's visit to his relatives in אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִםhttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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The Current Christian Dispute Between Philosemites and Antisemites
10/11/2025 Duración: 25minIt all goes back to 1657 and that strange episode of English Christian would-be missionaries who sent money to Jerusalem to save the starving Jews there.https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת וַיֵּרָא תשפ"ו אֱלִישָׁע וְהַשּׁוּנַמִּית
07/11/2025 Duración: 23minElisha does not blame the death of the child on the woman's sins. "The Buck stops here!"
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Psalm 83 and the current coinciding of שִׂנְאַת יִשְׂרָאֵל on the part of the Antisemitic Christian influencers and their counterparts in the בני ישמעאל world
04/11/2025 Duración: 26minכִּי הִנֵּה אוֹיְבֶיךָ יֶהֱמָיוּן וּמְשַׂנְאֶיךָ נָשְׂאוּ רֹאשׁ:ד עַל עַמְּךָ יַעֲרִימוּ סוֹד וְיִתְיָעֲצוּ עַל צְפוּנֶיךָ:ה אָמְרוּ לְכוּ וְנַכְחִידֵם מִגּוֹי וְלֹא יִזָּכֵר שֵׁם יִשְׂרָאֵל עוֹד:ו כִּי נוֹעֲצוּ לֵב יַחְדָּו עָלֶיךָ בְּרִית יִכְרֹתוּ:ז אָהֳלֵי אֱדוֹם וְיִשְׁמְעֵאלִים
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פָּרָשַׁת וְיֵרָא תשפ"ו - The Rashbam's unique take on Abraham's encounter with the Three Angels
03/11/2025 Duración: 28minAccording to Rashbam, there is no תִּקּוּן סוֹפְרִים in this parsha!https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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Part 2: The Other "Hellenistic Judaism" - not the Chanukah villains
02/11/2025 Duración: 43minThe fight over the language of קְרִיאַת הַתּוֹרָה בְּבֵית הַכְּנֶסֶת
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The Current Wave of Antisemitism in Italy - My reaction to a podcast
02/11/2025 Duración: 36minAre we seeing a long-internalized resentment by Italian Catholics to the liberalized theology towards the Jews adopted by The Church in 1965?
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Part 1: The Other "Hellenistic Judaism" - not the Chanukah villains
30/10/2025 Duración: 30minThe other Hellenistic Judaism, not identical with Talmudic Judaism (but not un-frum) but more widespread, once upon a time .Part 1 of a 2 part serieshttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת לֶךְ לְךָ תשפ"ו - Drawing inspiration from Abraham's victory over the Four Kings
28/10/2025 Duración: 24minThough outnumbered, Klal Yisroel will rip through the enemy like a thresher. So do not succumb to enemy efforts to undermine your moralehttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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Parshas Lech Lecha: "And he will be a wild donkey of a man..."
27/10/2025 Duración: 24minResh Lakish "Yishmael will be into kidnapping people and taking hostages"!https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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The Abarbanel on the Stories in Genesis: The relationship between literal and symbolic meanings of Scripture
26/10/2025 Duración: 24minWhen did full-blown idolatry begin? AFTER the Flood. Isn't that strange?https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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Haftarah Noach: The Flood as a metonymy for Jewish suffering down the Ages...
20/10/2025 Duración: 23minJust as G-d promised no more floods that can destroy the entire human race, so too He promises not to destroy the entire Jewish People.
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Parshas Noach: Noah and "the Day After"
20/10/2025 Duración: 27minNoah walked "with G-d," but could not get ahead of G-d, that is, he did not establish rules for the survivors of the Flood to ensure they would not revert to sin. IOW Noah was good but not great.https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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Is Donald Trump a "Second Cyrus"?
19/10/2025 Duración: 27minThe first Cyrus was a complex figure in Jewish history. The battle of the lobbyists at the ancient Persian Court. A playbook for Qatar? https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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Rabbeinu Tam and Count Henry I of Champagne (and Countess Marie)
19/10/2025 Duración: 42minWas Rabbeinu Tam a kind of French nobleman? Why did he practice falconry ? Why did the Count of Champagne turn to him to explain the David-Saul story?
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הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת בְּרֵאשִׁית תשפ"ו - Israel will survive (Al Aqsa) Floods and even the fires of internal strife
16/10/2025 Duración: 21minWho is it that 'has eyes but does not see, ears but does not hear"?https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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Parshas Bereishis: The world was created for a UNITED Klal Yisroel
16/10/2025 Duración: 33minIn a Jewish world with unbridgeable divisions, we must be alert to divinely-sent "opportunities that pass"