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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הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת וַיִּשְׁלַח תשפ"ו מִי הָיָה עוֹבַדְיָה? - Who exactly was Ovadiah?
05/12/2025 Duración: 27minPast history PLUS future historical (cyclical?) patternshttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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Israel & France (and Syria) : Connecting Dots
04/12/2025 Duración: 35minThe two faces of France in its dealings with Israel
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Chanukah 2025: Was the oil in the jar in the Temple the only kosher oil available?
03/12/2025 Duración: 34minIf you go by the Talmudic literature, there was other oil available, but they started with the oil in the famous jar and it burned for eight days.https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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"פָּרָשַׁת וַיִּשְׁלַח תשפ"ו "תַּרְיָ"ג מִצְווֹת שָׁמַרְתִּי - Why does Jacob say this to Esau?
02/12/2025 Duración: 27minWhy didn't Jacob send messengers to his father Yitzchak? Instead of to Esau?https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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The "בַּת עַיִן" in Historical Context (1765-1840)
01/12/2025 Duración: 01h11minThe challenges of living in צְפַת in the terrible 1830sHow to live in the old אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל without being victimized by the חֲלֻקָּה system
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Haftarah VaYeitzei: Hoshea 11:7, an extremely difficult verse to parse
27/11/2025 Duración: 30minSponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Mordy Gardyn 'in honor of my parents may they have אֲרִיכַת יָמִים וְשָׁנִיםand sponsored by "a member of the local fan club"
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What's with this Israeli preoccupation with the bodies of their dead, killed by Hamas & Co.?
27/11/2025 Duración: 32minWhy does Israel release live Arab terrorists (who admit they will kill again if they can!) in exchange for the corpses of Jewish dead? Is this a Halachic thing? A Zionist thing?
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Parshas VaYeitzei: What is Yaakov afraid of?
25/11/2025 Duración: 30minLet's examine the image of the ladder closely
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Some thoughts on Self-Hating and Self-Denying Jews in the current antisemitic climate, now and a century ago
25/11/2025 Duración: 33minWhen Arabs slaughtered (literally) the Jew in Hebron in 1929, the Communist Party said it was the fault of the Jews and the Arabs were in the right. And Jewish Communists sided with the Party! Similar things are happening today ...https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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Answering a listener's query re: allegorical interpretations of Biblical stories in ultra-orthodox sources
24/11/2025 Duración: 27minIf the Hebrew language pre-existed the physical world, then it is not subject to the rules of linguistic evolution, and if is constitutive of the physical world and its history, then the non physical interpretations are NOT at the expense of the literal meanings. https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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Today's Posthumous Promotion of Alfred Dreyfus to General in the French Army
20/11/2025 Duración: 47minWas Alfred Dreyfus really a self-hating or self-denying assimilated Jew?
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Haftarah Toldos: Quantity vs. quality in the performance of mitzvos. An age-old problem. Sigh
19/11/2025 Duración: 26min"אֶת עֵקֶב אָהַבְתִּי וְאֶת עֵשָׂו שָׂנֵאתִי" - ?Why
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Manasseh Ben Israel's (very recently translated from the Latin) "Thirty Problem Concerning מַעֲשֵׂה בְּרֵאשִׁית"
18/11/2025 Duración: 28minGiving the Jewish POV of Genesis to the world of European Intellectuals in the 17th Century
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Parshas Toldos: Was Yitzchak Avinu poverty-stricken (Ibn Ezra)?
17/11/2025 Duración: 26minYaakov acquires claim to Israel through purchase, a sale subsequently resented by the seller. Sounds like Jewish History in Israel 1880-1948https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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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!"