Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz

Episoade

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  Parshas Bereishis #2 What was the Tree of Life? 06.10.2026 30min

  Why wasn't Cain killed for murdering Abel?
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  Pashas Bereishis 5767 Part 1 - Onkelos on the Names of God in the Chumash 05.10.2026 36min

  The challenge of Gnostic Judaism, the Left-Wing of Hellenistic Judaism in the Ancient World
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  הֱוֵי מְקַבֵּל אֶת כָּל הָאָדָם בְּסֵבֶר פָּנִים יָפוֹת vs. וֶהֱוֵי מְקַבֵּל אֶת כָּל הָאָדָם בְּשִׂמְחָה in light of Hoshana Rabbah 02.10.2026 34min

  Civility vs. Affection: Two different approaches
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  The נַעֲנוּעִים in 5787 (2027) in light of current events 01.10.2026 28min

  The physical and political dangers we face from all directions
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  Parshas V’Zos HaBrachah: Before Moshe blesses the hereditary Jews, he blesses the גֵּרִים 28.09.2026 30min

  Including the עֵרֶב רַב!
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  A new interpretation of בַסֻּכּוֹת הוֹשַׁבְתִּי אֶת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּהוֹצִיאִי אוֹתָם מִמִּצְרַיִם - סֻכּוֹת מַמָּשׁ 28.09.2026 32min

  Where did the Jews sleep BEFORE they crossed the Red Sea?
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  Leone Modena's explanation of the halachos of the arba minim and the US Constitution 25.09.2026 30min

  The נַעֲנוּעִים are not some devil-worship ritual, but rather a sublime Maimonidean-Logical rite of acknowledging God's sovereignty over everything, even the Heavens. The great impact of Modena's explanation upon Gentile intellectuals
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  Calling a Spade a Spade: The עוֹלְלוֹת אֶפְרַיִם on the אַרְבַּע מִינִים 24.09.2026 27min

  The לוּלָב is the תַּלְמִיד חָכָם who is a turnoff!
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  Sukkos and the Battle for "The" Official-Memory of the 40 years in the desert 23.09.2026 20min

  The years in the Desert were magical, wondrous, and wonderful (עַנָּנֵי הַכָּבוֹד)ORThe year in the desert were physically torturous and ended in death (because of the two big sins) (סֻכּוֹת מַמָּשׁ)
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  Intellectual Bankruptcy and the Current (non-frum) Jewish Anti-Zionism 22.09.2026 32min

  Will Dissolving Israel and returning to Galus save the Jewish People? Are you nuts?
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  The unusual מַחְלֹקֶת רִאשׁוֹנִים re: The אַרְבָּעָה חִלּוּקֵי כַּפָּרָה 20.09.2026 24min

  The סֵפֶר הָאֶשְׁכּוֹל says that is not how Heaven operates
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  Shabbos Shuvah, Parshas Haazinu: Moshe goes out on a rhetorical high 17.09.2026 29min

  When misfortune strikes, will you be intelligent enough to be thoughtfully and constructively self-critical? Or will you be like everyone else in the Middle East?
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  A Possible History of Yom Kippur 16.09.2026 30min

  Why does the Torah (i.e., Hashem) permit everything on Yom Kippur except eating and drinking?
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  Rabbi Yekusiel Aryeh Kamelhar (1871-1937), life in the Jewish Galicia in the fin de siècle 16.09.2026 56min

  At different times, a Rav, Rosh Yeshiva, Historian, journalist. Seeking a footing when you are an original thinker but not a member of the "in club" in Hasidic society
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  Major Alfred Mordecai US Army (1804-1887): Can one stay frum at West Point? 14.09.2026 50min

  Robert E Lee chose the Confederacy. George Thomas chose the Union. Which side did Major Mordecai choose?
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  Rosh Hashanah and the Dangers of AI: An interpretation of the theme of Malchiyos 10.09.2026 29min

  Also: The historical origins of וְכֵן תֵּן פַּחְדְּךָ
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  A Historical Introduction to the Drashos HaRamban to Rosh HaShanah, Pt. 2 09.09.2026 52min

  Ramban, a Sephardi, spars with his Ashkenazic audience
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  A Historical Introduction to the Drashos HaRamban to Rosh HaShanah, Pt. 1 07.09.2026 1h 3min

  A Sephardi take on עִנְיְנֵי רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה delivered in an Ashkenazi yeshiva (in the Capital of the Crusader Kingdom) in 1267
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  Rosh Hashanah: A Suggested History of Malchiyos, Zichronos and Shofros in the Common Liturgy (5787) 06.09.2026 37min

  Did the predecessors of R’ Abahu also combine different meanings of תְּקִיעַת שׁוֹפָר that were "out there" into a single standard liturgy for all Jews? Was he merely following their example of uniformization?
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  Haftarah Nitzavim-VaYelech: Angelology and the Final Redemption 04.09.2026 26min

  Will Hashem Himself kill Edom? Or will it be the Archangel Michael? Different strands of Jewish Tradition.