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
Mentioned books
Jul 12, 2020 • 1h 5min
Jews and Romans in the Aftermath of the Destruction: Ep. 2 - Enduring the Unimaginable Pt. 2
Three Weeks Lecture Series on Bar Kochba
Jul 9, 2020 • 1h 14min
Jews and Romans in the Aftermath of the Destruction: Episode 1 - Enduring the Unimaginable
Three Weeks Lecture Series on Bar Kochba
Jul 9, 2020 • 37min
Parshas Pinchas: Strange Yichus - Pinchas, Potiphar, Shechem
Pinchas elsewhere in the Bible
Jul 6, 2020 • 53min
The Baal HaTurim, R' Yaakov ben Asher: The Private Scholar Who Wrote the Araba Turim- The Model for the Shulchan Aruch
Ashkenaz scholar who moved to Spain and wrote the law code accepted by both Jewries . A wonderful encyclopedia.
Jul 1, 2020 • 32min
Parshas Balak 2020: The Obscurities in the Account of the Punishment that Followed the Bnos Moav Story
Did Moses hand the Sanhedrin? Impale them? Push them off a cliff?
Jun 30, 2020 • 1h 56min
R' Esriel Hildesheimer (1820-1899): The Other Great Leader of Orthodox Jewry in Germany (Besides R' Hirsch)
The only Gaon and Rosh Yeshiva who also taught all the college courses within the walls of the yeshiva.
Jun 25, 2020 • 38min
Korach, Moses, and the Politics of Ingratitude
Moses and Samuel: What goes around comes around
Jun 21, 2020 • 59min
Rabbi Tzirelson of Kishinev (1859-1941): Founder of Both the Mizrachi and the Agudas Yisrael
One of the Most Successful Community-Rabbis in Europe
Jun 19, 2020 • 50min
Parshas Shelach: Canaanite Consumerism?
What did the spies mean when they said the Canaanites were stronger than God?
Jun 17, 2020 • 56min
Saadia Gaon (882/892-942): Rosh Yeshiva and Founder of Medieval Haskalah
Saadia Gaon climbed to the top of the yeshiva world even though he was not one of the typical.
