Jewish History With Rabbi Dovid Katz

Is the Messianic Utopia only for the Jews? Or for all mankind?

The Famous Trial in 1849: Is conversion to Judaism an indication of mental insanity?

Contrast the two stories: a.) The King of Arad b.) Bil'am, the lethal rhetoric, and the Bnos Moavhttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

Acc. to current reports, the Syrians may be willing to recognize Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights(!), just as Israel is cracking-down on the Haredi Draft. Sighhttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

What was the historical context for Saadia's prediction that משיח would come in 965 CE?

Was he a shofet over כְּלַל יִשְׂרָאֵל? Or was he just a big shot (רֹאשׁ וּקְצִין) over the area of עֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן?https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

Is becoming טָמֵא a sin?https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

An intelligent person (or nation) needs a plan, but he (it) must be its מוֹשֵׁל, not its עֶבֶד!https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

Messianism arose when the situation for the Jews was terrible, and there was nothing they could do about it בְּדֶרֶךְ הַטֶּבַעhttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

Kavod Habrios (Human Dignity) in situations where your silence will result in other people comitting sins

One group held Saul in contempt as a king. The other group opposed monarchy in principle,they wanted Hashem to rule them through Samuel (יַעֲבֵ"ץ וּכְלֵי יָקָר)https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

With the democtatic model of politics discredited by the Golden Calf episode, Moses resorts to the aristocratic model of political decision-making, and suffers blowback https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

Israel is trying to "break the teeth" of Iran - ק֘וּמָ֤ה יְהֹוָ֨ה ׀ הוֹשִׁ֘יעֵ֤נִי אֱלֹהַ֗י כִּֽי־הִכִּ֣יתָ אֶת־כׇּל־אֹיְבַ֣י לֶ֑חִי שִׁנֵּ֖י רְשָׁעִ֣ים שִׁבַּֽרְתָּ׃https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

How successful has "regime change" been in history? What kind of regime change in Iran would be beneficial to Israel? https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

The Caliph gave the רֵישׁ גָּלוּתָא a "present" in the form of the daughter of the Persian Emperor. The halachic debate re: what happened next.https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

The logic and long history of American Isolationism and its latest iteration as opposition to a manipulative Israel (a subtle anti-semitism). A real problem for כלל ישראל https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

In the end, sending the spies was unnecessary; Jericho fell through a miracle!https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

Did each spy seperately present his own report to Moshe, or did the ten spies hammer out a single unified consensus report prior to returning to the camp?

The strange history of Israel and the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK)https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

The extraordinary combination of גְּאוֹנוּת in lomdus in the Golden Age of Pilpul in the Golden Age of the Jews in The Kingdom of Poland , fascination with mathematics, and the Kabbalistic application of math to the deeper reading of the תּוֹרָה בִּכְתָב וְתוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֹּה