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    In conclusion, The Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz podcast is an invaluable resource for those interested in Jewish history. Through his extensive knowledge, engaging storytelling skills, and unique perspective, Rabbi Dr. Katz provides listeners with a deep understanding of historical events and figures. While there may be room for differing interpretations, this podcast remains highly recommended for its informative and captivating content.



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    Haftarah Emor: Ezekiel and Priestly Functions in the Third Temple

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 27:29


    Ezekiel is adjured to tellthe people about the future Temple, which is part of the historical tension re: how much priority should be given to קָדָשִׁים וְטַהֲרוֹת in לִמּוּד הַתּוֹרָה?

    Parshas Emor: May a kohen marry a promiscuous woman?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 26:55


    The word זוֹנָה ends up not meaning what you think it means. Dealing with checkered pasts you have left behind

    R ‘ Chaim Kohen Rapoport of Lvov, Pt. 3

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 48:47


    His famous disputation with the Frankist Heretics, who claimed that the Jews who follow the Talmud murder Christians and use their blood for Passover purposes. He tore into them , calling a spade a spade!

    Lag B'Omer and the Story of R' Shimon bar Yochai in the Cave: Critical considerations

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 32:34


    Raising a number of problematc aspects re: the text of the famous agadeta

    Rabbi Katz's new lecture series in Baltimore: May 12, 14, 19, 21, and 26

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 3:53


    Five lecture covering the history of Baltimore Jewry and their various "Judaisms." History of a rather unique Jewish community, whose history is both like and unlike that o other American Jewish communities.

    Donald Trump's Reported Deal with the Houthis

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 35:17


    Arab Piracy: Pay them off? Fight them? The machlokes between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

    Amos

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 24:07


    Prophet of Doom

    הַפְטָרַת פָּרָשַׁת אַחֲרֵי מוֹת - קְדוֹשִׁים תשפ"ה - Destruction and then Restoration

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 24:07


    Would you like to be a prophet of doom?

    Parshas Achrei Mos-Kedoshim: Why is the Yom Kippur Ritual associated with the deaths of Nadav and Avihu?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 22:44


    Was their sin בֵּין אָדָם לַחֲבֵרוֹ? If so, what does that have to do with Yom Kippur, which does not atone for that?

    Rambam and Korbanos Part 3

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 32:14


    The World stands on תּוֹרָה, עֲבוֹדָה, וּגְמִילוּת חֲסָדִים. Each one individually? Or the combination of all three?

    R Chaim Kohen Rapoport of Lvov (1699-1771) Part 2: Internal machlokes

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 47:51


    The Underside of Jewish Kehilah politics in the "Old World"

    Haftarah Tazria-Mazora: Gechazi is "Attacked" by the Yetzer HaTov

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 23:15


    Though he was no saint, Gechazi redeems his character by eschewing revenge

    Parshas Tazria-Metzora: Biblical Leprosy and Its Role in Promoting Sincere Social Relations

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2025 29:01


    Why is it so easy to get Biblical Leprosy and So Hard (Complicated Ritual) to become purified from it?

    Rav Chaim Kohen Rappaport of Lvov (1699-1771), Pt. 1: A Great Gadol You Probably Never Heard of

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2025 59:21


    One of the Greatest Gedolim of the 18th century. The Noda B'Yehudah and the Hafla'ah sent him THEIR שְׁאֵלוֹת! Classic lomdus of the "Old School"

    The Rambam and his different discourses on korbanos & other matters: Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 40:35


    TThe Rambam in the Mishneh Torah on the correct hashkafah re: Korbanos and other Mitzvos that make no sense. The remarkable anguish of King David re: such matters

    הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת שְׁמִינִי תשפ"ה - Dovid vs. Nadav & Avihu

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 22:02


    The two parades of Dovid.The mistakes in the first. The corrections in the second. The quarrel with Michal based on a misunderstanding

    פָּרָשַׁת שְׁמִינִי חֵטְא נָדָב וַאֲבִיהוּ

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 22:29


    Did they offer a ketores minus the חֶלְבְּנָא?

    Conditions in Eretz Yisroel in the early 19th century - life under the rapacious Muslims and hope from England

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 42:58


    The strange situation of the English and American Missionaries interacting with the תַּלְמִידֵי הַגְּרָ"א

    The Rambam and his different discourses on korbanos and other matters: Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 31:04


    An important difference between קָרְבָּנוֹת on the one hand, and תְּפִלָּה וּדְבֵקוּת on the other.

    הַפְטָרָה לָאַחֲרוֹן שֶׁל פֶּסַח בְּחוּ"ל "עוֹד הַיּוֹם בְּנוֹב" - Discrepancies between the accounts of Hezekiah and Sennacherib

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 29:38


    "If the Jews can end their disunity, they wil together conquer the Gaza Strip and Syria." Really

    Shevii Shel Pesach - The Splitting of the Sea: הֶאֱמִינוּ וְשׁוּב לֹא הֶאֱמִינוּ

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 31:17


    Moshe and the Jews: Belief, followed by loss of Belief, followed by new Belief

    The Historical Background to the 1830s controversy re: הַקְרָבַת קָרְבַּן פֶּסַח בַּזְּמַן הַזֶּה - What was going on in Turkish Palestine at that time

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 51:11


    R Akiva Eger thought the Muslims would allow the Jews to offer sacrifices on the Temple Mount. The Chasam Sofer disabused him. Why did R Akiva Eger think this?

    Seder Thoughts 2025 (תשפ"ה)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 37:10


    R Akiva's seder and the question of the Premature Exodus. Also, Lavan and his role inthe Egypt story

    When historical knowledge provides an insight into a Responsum: The Noda BiYhudah and the Ben Ish Chai

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 21:09


    Famous Responsa re: Adultery and Divorce

    Pesach, Bitul Chametz, and the eternal battle of ideas between Jewish and Egyptian theological ideas. Really

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 35:21


    If you wanted the manna in the desert to become matzah, to transsubstatiate into matzah, did it really become matzah, not just in taste?

    The Rambam and His Thoughts About the Hagadah

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 25:26


    In Chapter 7, the Rambam rearranges the order of the narrative, for philosophical/theological reasons

    Haftorah Shabbos Hagadol - Elijah: Unite or Die!

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 23:49


    Is parnasaah bad because you give too much charity? Or the other way around?

    Parshas Tzav (Erev Pesach) - Changing attitudes towards the Temple Sacrifices

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2025 27:10


    The differences between the First and Second Temple Eras

    "הַפְטָרַת פָּרָשַׁת וַיִּקְרָא תשפ"ה "הֶעֱבַדְתַּנִי בְּחַטֹּאותֶיךָ הוֹגַעְתַּנִי בַּעֲוֹנֹתֶיךָ

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 22:21


    The Temple was built large, to accommodate 12 tribes, but it sended up servicing and being patronized by only two tribes

    The current war in light of וְהִיא שֶׁעָמְדָה לַאֲבוֹתֵינוּ וְלָנוּ שֶׁבְּכָל דּוֹר וָדוֹר עוֹמְדִים עָלֵינוּ לְכַלּוֹתֵנוּ וְהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ ה

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 29:40


    Was Hamas's goal realistic? Maybe!

    The Pesach Haggadah: רַבָּן גַּמְלִיאֵל אוֹמֵר

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 27:14


    What kind of guests were at the seder of רַבָּן גַּמְלִיאֵל? Why did his narrative differ from that in Bnai Berak?

    פָּרָשַׁת וַיִּקְרָא תשפ"ה הַקָּרְבָּנוֹת לְעֻמַּת הַקָּרְבָּן פֶּסַח

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2025 26:44


    Two types of Communal offerings: a.) Performed by Priest as Agent for the Community b.) Performed by the masses of the community themselves

    פָּרָשַׁת הַחֹדֶשׁ תשפ”ה - The seemngly disjuncted narrative: first about קָרְבַּן פֶּסַח,

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 34:12


    Why is חָמֵץ prohibited (כָּרֵת!)? What does חמץ have to do with the slavery i Egypt? Really

    פָּרָשַׁת הַחֹדֶשׁ תשפ"ה - The seemngly disjuncted narrative: first about קָרְבַּן פֶּסַח, then abruptly about חָמֵץ

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 34:12


    Why is חָמֵץ prohibited (כָּרֵת!)? What does חמץ have to do with the slavery i Egypt? Really

    R' Chaim Sinwani of Yemen and Israel (1897-1979)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2025 39:30


    A great Talmid Chacham and Mekubal who suffered from secular Zionist persecution in the 1940s. The complicated story of Yemenite Jewry in the first half of the 20th century.

    הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת הַחֹדֶשׁ תשפ"ה - Princely corruption even in the time of the Third Temple?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 24:02


    The Prophet admonishes the Princes to stop evicting Jews from their ancestral land and expropriating the land in order to gift their own children and employees

    ?פָּרָשַׁת פְּקוּדֵי תשפ"ה - מִי הָיוּ לֵצָנֵי הַדּוֹר

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 23:53


    The cynics were those who did not contribute (either out of stinginess or laziness), who now projected thir own guilt feelings onto Moshe and the Mishkan Project.

    Trump, Polk, Bibi: Some cautonary lessons from the past

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 36:20


    Sometimes, military victory leads to civil war! Success requires philosophy to be managed sagaciously

    Haftarah Parshas Parah- Jewish misconduct in the lands of exile

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 24:32


    The supreme virtue of being ashamed of your misconduct. Is this happening currently?

    Parshas VaYakhel- No fire outside the miskan, but yes fire inside the mishkan!

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 28:23


    Most fights break out in shul on Shabbos - לֹא תְבַעֲרוּ אֵשׁ בְּכֹל מֹשְׁבֹתֵיכֶם בְּיוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת

    Purim live 5785 (2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025 68:17


    Live from Baltimore

    Tefilah: Why does God say to Moses : לֹא תוּכַל לִרְאֹת אֶת פָּנָי, but subsequently וְדִבֵּר הַשֵּׁם עִם מֹשֶׁה פָּנִים אֶל פָּנִים?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 22:27


    Some thoughts on the limited, philosophical approach to prayer vs. the mystical approach to prayer

    Donald Trump's fascination with America's Tenth President James K. Polk (1845-1849)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 56:08


    Intensely partisan, a slaveholder, a great liar, Polk is one of the great presidents, who doubled the territory of the USA. In the words of Trump, "He got a lot of land!" Will this affect Gaza?

    a.) 17 Adar - tachnun? Anniversary of a massacre and rescue in Northern Syria of חַכְמֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל in Northern Syria (מְגִלַּת תַּעֲנִית). Sound familiar

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 25:03


    The opposite of today -  at that time there was civil war in Israel and peace in Syria ... or so they thought!

    Two Short Purim Vorts

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2025 18:30


    Why did Esther try to be nice to Haman?  Also, did Haman actually prohibit circumcision?

    Is Israel becoming more religious in the wake of the Gaza War? Some thoughts upon reading an article in הָאָרֶץ

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2025 32:06


    R Katz analyzes the religious effects of Israel's six foreign wars

    Purim 2025, Pt. 2: How Esther hid her identity-Didn't the Jews say אָחוֹת יֵשׁ לָנוּ בְּבֵית הַמֶּלֶךְ?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2025 30:26


    How come Haman did not make a move against the Jews for FIVE years?

    הַפְטָרַת פָּרָשַׁת כִּי תִשָּׂא תשפ"ה - אֵלִיָּהוּ בְּהַר הַכַּרְמֶל

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 27:08


    Why was אֵלִיָּהוּ a brilliant failure?

    Purim 2025 in the light of the October 7, 20243 Pogrom

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 31:53


    The Jews in the time of Esther ducked a planned "Oct. 7" pogrom multiplied all across the 127 provinces. Instead, it was the Jews who ended up perpetrating the pogrom against their mortal enemies

    Parshas Ki Sisa (Shoshana Purim): The Eigel and Purim

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 30:20


    Could מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהִשְׁתַּחֲווּ לַצֶּלֶם (Megilah 12a) be an oblique reference to פָּרָשַׁת עֵגֶל הַזָּהָב?

    Purim 2025: What is the source in the Megilah for the opposing opinions of רשב"י and his talmidim ?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 26:49


    Where did they get the ideas that the big sin of כְּלַל יִשְׂרָאֵל was either a.) נֶהֱנוּ מִסְּעֻדָּתוֹ שֶׁל אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ or b.) הִשְׁתַּחֲווּ לַצֶּלֶם? It is not in the text of the Megilah, is it?

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