Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz
Education Podcasts
To help support this podcast, please consider giving a tax deductible contribution here: https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast --- 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.
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United States
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Education Podcasts
Description:
To help support this podcast, please consider giving a tax deductible contribution here: https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast --- 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.
Language:
English
Episodes
Haftarah Pinchas: The Relationship between Pinchas and Eliyahu -Are they literally the same person?
7/17/2025
Moses says הָרְגֵנִי נָא הָרוֹג. Pinchas says קַח נַפְשִׁי. What is the difference?
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Duration:00:33:52
R Katz Analyzes the Current Middle East Crisis involving the Druze, Syria, Israel, and the USA
7/16/2025
The 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!
Duration:00:46:21
The Influence of R Saadia Gaon on the Rambam and all the other Medieval Jewish Philosophers
7/16/2025
Many of the ideas in the מוֹרֵה נְבוֹכִים, הַכּוּזָרִי, הַחוֹבוֹת הַלְּבָבוֹת, יַד רמ"ה, הָעִקָּרִים, וְכוּלְהוּ actually were already written in the אֱמוּנוֹת וְדֵעוֹת
Duration:00:27:02
Isaac Ochberg of Cape Town (1878-1937): Rescuer of Orphans from World War I
7/15/2025
A 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
Duration:00:33:47
פָּרָשַׁת פִּינְחָס תשפ"ה - The Bloody Discrepancies
7/14/2025
Why did the Civil Wars between the Tribes in the Desert degenerate into exterminatory massacres?
Duration:00:28:34
Bilam's obseration of הֶן עָם לְבָדָד יִשְׁכֹּן and the current phenomenon of Jews being abandoned by their supposed "allies"
7/9/2025
So many Jews have deluded themselves that they wre building "alliances" only to discover on October 7 that they had been building on sand
Duration:00:29:12
What is the oldest source for the "Three Weeks"?
7/8/2025
Daniel fasts out of consternation at Cyrus' stop-order re: the building of the Second Temple
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Duration:00:25:33
הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת בָּלָק תשפ"ה - Will some Jews choose to remain in חוּץ לָאָרֶץ in the Messianic Era?
7/8/2025
Is the Messianic Utopia only for the Jews? Or for all mankind?
Duration:00:25:12
Quaker Ger Tzedek: Warder Cresson of Philadelphia and Jerusalem (1798-1861)
7/8/2025
The Famous Trial in 1849: Is conversion to Judaism an indication of mental insanity?
Duration:00:56:08
פָּרָשַׁת בָּלָק תשפ"ה - Parshas Bil'am and the Current War in Gaza
7/8/2025
Contrast the two stories: a.) The King of Arad b.) Bil'am, the lethal rhetoric, and the בְּנוֹת מוֹאָב
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Duration:00:26:29
Katz Analyzes the current situation inthe Middle East: The Connection between Drafting the בני תורה and the possibilities of peace with Syria?
7/7/2025
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. Sigh
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Duration:00:33:25
רס"ג והמשיח - The Reasons for Saadia Gaon's Messianic Speculation in the 10th Century Abbasid Caliphate
7/6/2025
What was the historical context for Saadia's prediction that משיח would come in 965 CE
Duration:00:53:06
הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת חֻקַּת תשפ"ה - Was Yiftach a Shofet? Or was he a general?
7/1/2025
Was he a shofet over כְּלַל יִשְׂרָאֵל? Or was he just a big shot (רֹאשׁ וּקְצִין) over the area of עֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן?
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Duration:00:25:40
פָּרָשַׁת חֻקַּת תשפ"ה - The cedar, hyssop, and crimson wool - the Three types of Worshipers of the Golden Calf?
7/1/2025
Is becoming טָמֵא a sin?
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Duration:00:29:05
עַל כֵּן יֹאמְרוּ הַמֹּשְׁלִים בֹּאוּ חֶשְׁבּוֹן - Some philosophical thoughts re: Oct. 7, 2023 vs. June 12, 2025
6/30/2025
An intelligent person (or nation) needs a plan, but he (it) must be its מוֹשֵׁל, not its עֶבֶד!
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Duration:00:26:11
Messianism in Jewish History: The Specific Historical Contexts: The Case of Biblical and then Ancient Judaism
6/30/2025
Messianism arose when the situation for the Jews was terrible, and there was nothing they could do about it בְּדֶרֶךְ הַטֶּבַע
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Duration:00:41:07
הַדְרָן עַל מַסֶּכֶת שְׁבוּעוֹת לז"נ אִמִּי לֵאָה בַּת אַרְיֵה לֵיבּ הַלֵּוִי זַ"ל יָארְצַיְט ג תַּמּוּז תשפ"ה
6/29/2025
Kavod Habrios (Human Dignity) in situations where your silence will result in other people comitting sins
Duration:00:33:31
הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת קֹרַח תשפ"ה - The two groups who did not want Shaul as King
6/26/2025
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)
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Duration:00:23:23
פָּרָשַׁת קֹרַח תשפ"ה - לְפִי הָאִבְּן עֶזְרָא - An EGREGIOUS example of אֵין מֻקְדָּם וּמְאֻחָר בַּתּוֹרָה !
6/25/2025
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
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Duration:00:29:28
"I was asleep, but I have now woken up!" The Third Pslam and the current Israel-Iran War
6/24/2025
Israel is trying to "break the teeth" of Iran - ק֘וּמָ֤ה יְהֹוָ֨ה ׀ הוֹשִׁ֘יעֵ֤נִי אֱלֹהַ֗י כִּֽי־הִכִּ֣יתָ אֶת־כׇּל־אֹיְבַ֣י לֶ֑חִי שִׁנֵּ֖י רְשָׁעִ֣ים שִׁבַּֽרְתָּ׃
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Duration:00:28:23