Sinopsis
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. He can be reached at the following email: rabbidkatz@gmail.com
Episodios
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Haftarah Pinchas: The Relationship between Pinchas and Eliyahu -Are they literally the same person?
17/07/2025 Duración: 33minMoses says הָרְגֵנִי נָא הָרוֹג. Pinchas says קַח נַפְשִׁי. What is the difference?https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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The Druze, Syria, Israel, and the USA - An Analysis
16/07/2025 Duración: 46minThe Existential Dilemma facing Bibi: Making Peace with Syria, but also bombing Syria to save the Syrian Druze (thereby giving מְנוּחַת הַנֶּפֶשׁ to the Israeli Druze). A very complicated story!
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The Influence of R' Saadia Gaon on the Rambam and all the other Medieval Jewish Philosophers
16/07/2025 Duración: 27minMany of the ideas in the מוֹרֵה נְבוֹכִים, הַכּוּזָרִי, הַחוֹבוֹת הַלְּבָבוֹת, יַד רמ"ה, הָעִקָּרִים, וְכוּלְהוּ actually were already written in the אֱמוּנוֹת וְדֵעוֹת
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Isaac Ochberg of Cape Town (1878-1937): Rescuer of Orphans from World War I
15/07/2025 Duración: 33minA South African "Jewish Jew" who went to wartorn Ukraine in 1920, then in the midst of massacres of Jews, and brought 200 Jewish orphans to safety in South Africa
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Parshas Pinchas: The Bloody Discrepancies
14/07/2025 Duración: 28minWhy did the Civil Wars between the Tribes in the Desert degenerate into exterminatory massacres?
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Bilam's obseration of הֶן עָם לְבָדָד יִשְׁכֹּן and the current phenomenon of Jews being abandoned by their supposed "allies"
10/07/2025 Duración: 29minSo many Jews have deluded themselves that they wre building "alliances" only to discover on October 7 that they had been building on sand
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What is the Oldest Source for the "Three Weeks"?
09/07/2025 Duración: 25minDaniel fasts out of consternation at Cyrus' stop-order re: the building of the Second Templehttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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Haftarah Balak: Will some Jews choose to remain in Chutz L'Eretz in the Messianic Era?
08/07/2025 Duración: 25minIs the Messianic Utopia only for the Jews? Or for all mankind?
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Quaker Ger Tzedek: Warder Cresson of Philadelphia and Jerusalem (1798-1861)
08/07/2025 Duración: 56minThe Famous Trial in 1849: Is conversion to Judaism an indication of mental insanity?
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Parshas Balak: Bil'am and the Current War in Gaza
08/07/2025 Duración: 26minContrast 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
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The Connection Between Drafting the Bnei Torah and the Possibilities of Peace with Syria? - The Current Situation in Middle East
07/07/2025 Duración: 33minAcc. 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
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R' Saadiah Gaon and the Moshiach: The Reasons for Saadia Gaon's Messianic Speculation in the 10th Century Abbasid Caliphate
06/07/2025 Duración: 53minWhat was the historical context for Saadia's prediction that משיח would come in 965 CE?
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הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת חֻקַּת תשפ"ה - Was Yiftach a Shofet? Or was he a general?
01/07/2025 Duración: 25minWas 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
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פָּרָשַׁת חֻקַּת תשפ"ה - The cedar, hyssop, and crimson wool - the Three types of Worshipers of the Golden Calf?
01/07/2025 Duración: 29minIs becoming טָמֵא a sin?https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
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עַל כֵּן יֹאמְרוּ הַמֹּשְׁלִים בֹּאוּ חֶשְׁבּוֹן - Some philosophical thoughts re: Oct. 7, 2023 vs. June 12, 2025
30/06/2025 Duración: 26minAn 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
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Messianism in Jewish History: The Specific Historical Contexts: The Case of Biblical and then Ancient Judaism
30/06/2025 Duración: 41minMessianism 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
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הַדְרָן עַל מַסֶּכֶת שְׁבוּעוֹת לז"נ אִמִּי לֵאָה בַּת אַרְיֵה לֵיבּ הַלֵּוִי זַ"ל יָארְצַיְט ג תַּמּוּז תשפ"ה
29/06/2025 Duración: 33minKavod Habrios (Human Dignity) in situations where your silence will result in other people comitting sins
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הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת קֹרַח תשפ"ה - The two groups who did not want Shaul as King
26/06/2025 Duración: 23minOne 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
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פָּרָשַׁת קֹרַח תשפ"ה - לְפִי הָאִבְּן עֶזְרָא - An EGREGIOUS example of אֵין מֻקְדָּם וּמְאֻחָר בַּתּוֹרָה !
25/06/2025 Duración: 29minWith 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
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"I was asleep, but I have now woken up!" The Third Pslam and the current Israel-Iran War
24/06/2025 Duración: 28minIsrael 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