Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz

Just because you were an אֶתְרוֹג last year doesn't mean you won't be an עֲרָבָה this year!

None are as Blind as Those Who Would Not See - From Rabbi Katz' 2017-2018 Lecture Series on the Yom Kippur War

What's preferable? Something expensive that few can afford, or something inexpensive that everyone can join in?

Acc. to ילקוט שמעוני, how exactly do the frum need the non-frum?

Are the two versions of sukkos mutually compatible? Do they represent different family experiences?

The Israelis in 1973 were guilty of עֵינַיִם רָמוֹת וְעַזּוּת מֵצַח

Three שִׁיטוֹת on Less-than-total repentance

What does אלול have to do with the עגל הזהב?

Part scary kabbalistic tales, part penetrating social criticism; one of the most popular seforim in Jewish history

"Abandon your religion of sacrifices (golden calf), and try a religion of prayer!"

A frustrated Moshe Rabbeinu lets loose on Klal Yisroel, calling them every harsh name he can

Now מַלְכִיּוֹת זִכְרוֹנוֹת וְשׁוֹפָרוֹת are three sides of the Jew-G-d relationship

God sent a three-person team to lead כְּלַל יִשְׂרָאֵל . By Deuteronomy, two are dead

Did this practice start in the 19th century in Lithuania?

When Cremona was a center of Torah, Torah printing, and Torah burning

The tour will take place on Tuesday Chol haMoed

The suffering of religious Jews at the hands of the regime and of the Jewish Communists

The same Pope who burned all the Gemaras and סִפְרֵי נִגְלֶה permitted publishing the Zohar...for nefarious reasons

Jerusalem is attacked. No one helps her, so Hashem personally intervenes and executes bloody vengeance

Although he originally demanded the Jews circumcise their own hearts, in the end he acknowledges it will have to come from G-d

Why did the חכמים prohibit the shofar on Shabbos?

Printed in the luxurious palace of Gracia Mendes' daughter in Constantinople in 1598. Gracia, Joseph Nasi, Donna Reyna, a family of exemplary Sephardic richie-riches

The חוֹלֵץ who deliberately put the shoe on the wrong foot, to prevent his "in-laws" from cheating him

Sforno decries the Jews who go to non-Jewish courts: אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים!

מַחְלֹקֶת רַאְבַ"ד וּבְעַל הַמָּאוֹר עַל פֵּרוּשׁ "עִרְבּוּב הַשָּׂטָן"

The Jewish triumph will be moral, not military. It won't have to be!

This classic was written circa 1200, and is the first of the genre of minhag-litetature, evaluating the correctness of various halachic practices

The Rema"s unique Baroque explanation of the בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ וְהַקָּרְבָּנוֹת.

The kohen who suddenly decided he was not a kohen (to marry a rich divorcee)

The controversial second "40 Days"

Will God forget? Forgive?

When a person is חוֹשֵׁק, he doesn't consider the future consequences

Has day-school enrollment in NYC plateaued? R' Katz and Gabe Aaronson analyze the latest statistics.

Wealthy enough not to be a rov or rosh yeshiva, but up there with the גְּדוֹלֵי הַדּוֹר

Which round was תְּשׁוּבָה מִיִּרְאָה , and which was תְּשׁוּבָה מֵאַהֲבָה?

From Volozhin to the JTS of Breslau to the Great Synagogue of St. Petersburg, Reform Russian style

Genuine אֱמוּנָה requires seeing נִקְמַת מִדָּה כְּנֶגֶד מִדָּה

R,Katz distinguishes between courts who administered the justice of the original תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה and their later successors

The mammoth Aguna crisis in the aftermath of the Holocaust

Moses' Stark Admonition That Everything is Either a Blessing or a Curse; Nothing is Neutral

If the soul "reunites " with G-d, then we are way beyond שְׂכַר וְעֹנֶשׁ

The Arabs make peace with Israel when all other options fail...

How exactly did they later discover the site of the בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ? After all, it is not stated in the חֻמָּשׁ?

The diastrous effects of WW 1 on religiosity, and the efforts to respond to the crisis in Warsaw

What happens when two persons have the same relationship to a mitzvah?

Did the corpses of ביתר remain intact (though mutilated from battle and torture)? Or was it the skeletons which survived intact?

Why kind of a marriage does כלל ישראל have today with HaShem?

Why the strange anthropormism that Hashem was "crazy in love" with the Patriarchs and Matriarchs?

A Litvish Gadol who ends up as Dayan of the largest hasidic community in the world Part 1

The wicked are indeed destroyed, but not before they suffer torture

Moshe is describing the wonderfully flexible תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה of long ago