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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Feb 19, 2020 • 32min
Parshas Mishpatim. "Going up" to the Tetragramaton
How to philosophically decode a passage describing the indescribable.
Feb 14, 2020 • 36min
Parahas Yisro: The Unusual Relationship Between Moshe and Tziporah.
Why did he divorce her twice?
Feb 10, 2020 • 59min
R’ Dovid Sinzheim (1745-1812), Napoleon’s Sanhedrin and Alsatian Jewry.
Author of the Yad Dovid on Shas, and the Gadol who had the misfortune to live in France during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.
Feb 7, 2020 • 29min
Parshas Beshalach: Weren't They Supposed to Head Towards Mt. Sinai Anyway?
Also, how did Dathan &Co. remain in Egypt, yet end up at Mt. Sinai?
Feb 4, 2020 • 48min
Rabbenu Nissim ben Reuven (1315-1375): The " RaN in the Back of the Gemara"
A leading MD who was one of the greatest writers among the Rishonim. He held no official rabbinical position, yet was the leading posek and gadol in difficult times.
Jan 30, 2020 • 3min
This Coming Weekend 1/31/20-2/2/20 in the New Jersey-Monsey Area
I will be in Livingston, NJ this Shabbos and in Monsey, Saturday Night, February 1st
Jan 30, 2020 • 29min
The Tzemach Tzedek - R’ Menachem Mendel Krochmal, (1600-1661): A Fascinating Sefer of Responsa
This is the Tzemach Tzedek “HaKadmon” of the 17th Century: A tribune of the poor, and opponent of "baloney "
Jan 29, 2020 • 23min
Parshas Bo: The "Borrowers"
What the Jews left behind in Egypt.
Jan 24, 2020 • 28min
Parshas VaEra: The Ten Plagues as They Would Have Appeared to Egyptians and to Hebrews
"Punishing the "gods" - לעשות שופטים באלוהי מצרים
Jan 21, 2020 • 47min
Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler (1803-1890)
“I am the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire” - Judaism is too important to be left in the hands of the bourgeoisie
