Jewish History With Rabbi Dovid Katz

The two parades of Dovid.The mistakes in the first. The corrections in the second. The quarrel with Michal based on a misunderstanding

Did they offer a ketores minus the חֶלְבְּנָא?

The strange situation of the English and American Missionaries interacting with the תַּלְמִידֵי הַגְּרָ"א

An important difference between קָרְבָּנוֹת on the one hand, and תְּפִלָּה וּדְבֵקוּת on the other.

"If the Jews can end their disunity, they wil together conquer the Gaza Strip and Syria." Really

Moshe and the Jews: Belief, followed by loss of Belief, followed by new Belief

R Akiva Eger thought the Muslims would allow the Jews to offer sacrifices on the Temple Mount. The Chasam Sofer disabused him. Why did R Akiva Eger think this?

R Akiva's seder and the question of the Premature Exodus. Also, Lavan and his role inthe Egypt story

Famous Responsa re: Adultery and Divorce

If you wanted the manna in the desert to become matzah, to transsubstatiate into matzah, did it really become matzah, not just in taste?

In Chapter 7, the Rambam rearranges the order of the narrative, for philosophical/theological reasons

Is parnasaah bad because you give too much charity? Or the other way around?

The differences between the First and Second Temple Eras

The Temple was built large, to accommodate 12 tribes, but it sended up servicing and being patronized by only two tribes

Was Hamas's goal realistic? Maybe!

What kind of guests were at the seder of רַבָּן גַּמְלִיאֵל? Why did his narrative differ from that in Bnai Berak?

Two types of Communal offerings: a.) Performed by Priest as Agent for the Community b.) Performed by the masses of the community themselves

Why is chametz prohibited (כָּרֵת!)? What does chametz have to do with the slavery in Egypt? Really

A great Talmid Chacham and Mekubal who suffered from secular Zionist persecution in the 1940s. The complicated story of Yemenite Jewry in the first half of the 20th century.

The Prophet admonishes the Princes to stop evicting Jews from their ancestral land and expropriating the land in order to gift their own children and employees