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 3, 2021 • 29min
Scratching Beneath the Surface of the Debate About Blowing Shofar During the Silent Amidah
Was blowing nine blasts originally an anti-Saducee act? Were they blown all at once?
Sep 2, 2021 • 35min
How Did Christianity Become Identified with Edom? (Haftarah Nitzavim)
The ibn Ezra on the first Christians. Why Does Edom Have to Be Destroyed?
Sep 1, 2021 • 39min
Parshas Nitzavim: Moses Fears That Nostalgia for Egypt May Trump 40 Years of Miracles in the Desert
What are the "hidden" and "revealed" things to which Moses refers?
Sep 1, 2021 • 1h 22min
Rabbi Dr. Bernard Illowy (1814-1871): The Only Talmid Chacham in Mid-19th Century America, Other Than Rabbi Abraham Rice
Superbly educated, highly-gifted, a brilliant-success, a tragic failure
Aug 26, 2021 • 39min
The Shofar Mystery: How Did Rabbi Avahu Get the Jewish people to Change the Way They Had Always Blown Shofar?
Rambam says the Jews forgot how to blow shofar. How exactly does he understand this to have happened?
Aug 25, 2021 • 32min
Utopia on Steroids: The Glorious Future Predicted By the Prophet Isaiah (Haftarah Ki Savo)
If you could create a Utopia, what would it look like? Isaiah's?
Aug 25, 2021 • 52min
A History of the Piyutim Controversies: The Classic Debates About Adding Piyutim to the Liturgy
The critics of Kaliri vs. the defenders -famous Gedolim, all of them.
Aug 23, 2021 • 38min
Parshas Ki Savo: Is the Speech We Read Identical With the One Delivered By Moses? Or is It Edited?
Why does the end of the Tochachah describe a national psychological depression?
Aug 22, 2021 • 40min
Selichos: Its Origins and Evolution - Several Completely Different Paradigms
Liturgical creativity? Musical creativity? Reflections of different communities.
Aug 19, 2021 • 23min
Isaiah's Prophecy: The Childless Woman Suddenly Has Five Sets of Triplets! (Haftarah Ki Seitzei)
The great blessing of putting a negative past in proper perspective
