Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz

Épisodes

• What is the meaning of גָּלוּת, as in גָּלוּת אֱדוֹם? Afterall, the Romans did not kick the Jews out of Israel? 19.07.2026 30min

  What is the difference between heresy and unbelief? Which more accurately applies to the חִלּוֹנִים in Israel today?
• Haftarah Shabbos Chazon: Isaiah blasts the smug survivors of the Assyrian Holocaust 14.07.2026 26min

  "You were not spared because you are righteous! In fact, God hates your so-called mitzvos!"
• Parshas Devarim: Is Moses talking about "Greater Israel"? 14.07.2026 33min

  He is rebuking the CHILDREN of the sinners, not the sinners themselves. The challenge of rebuking constructively
• More on Ancient Judaism, Christianity, and the Question of Proselytism 13.07.2026 22min

  Why is וּלְמַלְשִׁינִים juxtaposed to עַל הַצַּדִּיקִים?
• Why has (Rabbinic) Judaism not encouraged Proselytizing? 12.07.2026 27min

  The big difference between Judaism and Christianity re: Proselytizing. Origin of the Talmudic concept of עֵרֶב רַב?
• Haftarah Matos-Masei: The Broken Cisterns (Bein HaMitzarim) 09.07.2026 26min

  You abandoned land which contained a natural spring of fresh water for arid land supplied by collected rainwater only to find the cistern which was supposed to hold the water had a leak!
• Henry (Tzvi Hirsh) Gersoni 1844-1897: a story of בְּנוֹת מוֹאָב and בַּעַל פְּעוֹר in Czarist Russia 08.07.2026 42min

  בַּעַל הַ"מוֹדֶה וְעוֹזֵב יְרֻחָם"
• Haftarah Matos-Masei: The Massacre of the Midianites 06.07.2026 35min

  The peculiar moral characteristics of a "War of Revenge" - נְקֹם נִקְמַת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵאֵת הַמִּדְיָנִים
• Some reflections on בֵּין הַמְּצָרִים in light of Current Events 05.07.2026 28min

  What does רשב"ג mean when he says (שבת י"ג ע"ב) אֵין אָנוּ מַסְפִּיקִין?
• Shiva Assar B’Tammuz and other events, such as July 4, 1776! And July 15, 1099 02.07.2026 26min

  The Fall of Jerusalem to the Crusaders in 1099 and the accompanying massacres of Jews
• Haftarah Pinchas (Bein HaMitzarim): Jeremiah is from the non-corrupt, banished, kohanim 01.07.2026 30min

  His Divinely-ordained career of musar and tochechah begins in the middle of King Josiah's radical (and unpopular!) campaign to exterminate idols in the Kingdom of Judah
• Parshas Pinchas: Pinchas criticizes Hashem and is rewarded by Hashem for it 30.06.2026 30min

  Were the 24,000 who perished Jews? Or erev rav?
• The Tosfos Shantz: Rabbi Samson of Sens (1150-1211), Pt. 3 30.06.2026 47min

  How were the Crusader-Related events in Eretz Yisroel that took place in the 12th century interpreted by the Baalei Tosfos and their Jewish contemporaries? As עִקְבְתָא דִּמְשִׁיחָא!
• Haftarah Chukas-Balak: Micah's hortatory message 26.06.2026 22min

  What exactly is הַצְנֵעַ לֶכֶת עִם אֱלֹהֶיךָ?
• Parshas Balak: Balak's Grand Strategy 24.06.2026 27min

  Bil'am the spinmeister could have (through his rhetorical skills) united the various kingdoms into an anti=Jewish Alliance...
• More on the Abarbanel's commentary on the מורה נבוכים: Giving Exodus 24 the "Companton Treatment" 23.06.2026 29min

  What is the difference between the זִקְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל and the אֲצִילֵי בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל?
• Parshas Chukas-Balak: Reading the story in conjunction with the account in Deuteronomy 22.06.2026 33min

  The survey of the Ohr HaChaim of the opinions re: the sin of Moses and his critique of all of the opinions
• הָרַשְׁבָּ"א בַּעַל הַתּוֹסָפוֹת - הר"ש מִשַּׂאנְץ - Rabbi Samson of Sens (1150-1214) Part 2 21.06.2026 1h 1min

  The ר"ש מִשַּׂאנְץ as a participant in The Maimonidean Controversies of the late 12th century. His sober and balanced approach.
• Hadran on Yerushalmi Yoma on My Mother's 18th yahrzeit (2 Tamuz) 18.06.2026 28min

  The Controversial Quadripartite Atonement Scheme of R Ishmael & Co. Historically Considered
• Haftarah Korach: Samuel's reaction to rejection 16.06.2026 32min

  Was it an insulting dumping of a righteous prophet? Or was it rather a legitimate concern re: who would take-over after the prophet's death?