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Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz

Summary: To help support this podcast, please consider giving a tax deductible contribution here: https://go.thechesedfund.com/DyQrOD/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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 The billion dollar gift to Einstein: the Baltimore background | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:37:33

What happens when one spouse is Orthodox and the other Reform? An "Old Baltimore" tale

 The Letter of Haman: Its demonization of Jews and ordering their death | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:27:17

Haman's spinning of the Biblical narrative to make the Jews look bad, just like Hamas propaganda today

 Purim and Parshas VaYikra: What's Up With the Angels, the Korbanos, and Vashti? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:29:19

Reading the megillah in a two-tiered fashion ( הַמֶּלֶךְ)

 The Consequences of Jewish Disunity and Irresponsibility During the Current War | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:27:03

What provoked Schumer's speech? Do Israelis care about the USA and its interests?

 Why is Purim not on the day of the victorious fight, but on the day after? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:32:49

R Katz suggests a chronology of the historical development of the acceptance of the holiday of Purim

 R’ Moshe Provenzalo of Renaissance Italy (Mantua) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:52:00

Great Italiani gaon, whose rabbinical opponents tried to get him fired by his own בַּעֲלֵי בָּתִּים

 Haftarah Pekudei: Why did Shlomo stash-away his father's gold? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:33:50

Why the extra (and indeed omnipresent) cherubs and pictures of cherubs all over the Temple?

 Parshas Pekudei: When is a Mishkan a Full-Blown Mishkan? And When is it Just a Glorified בָּמָה? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:34:48

The strange history of the 71 years of הֶתֵּר הַבָּמוֹת

 Recent Trends in Antisemitism in America - An Analysis by R’ Katz | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:30:19

The bad guys are trying to change PC to say it is ok, indeed correct, to be anti-Semitic.

 The מַחְבֶּרֶת of Menachem Ben Siruk- The New Edition of This Tragic 10th Century classic | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 01:00:01

The first real Hebrew dictionary, dissed by jealous rivals, used by Rashi and defended by Rabbenu Tam

 Haftarah VaYakhel: Hiram of Tyre, King Solomon's " Michaelangelo?" | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:36:22

Solomon's pragmatism in building the Temple: Good move or bad?

 Parshas VaYakhel: Why Make Keruvim After the Fiasco of the Golden Calf? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:32:31

The story of the three material objects: The שִׁבְרֵי לוּחוֹת רִאשׁוֹנוֹת, the עֵגֶל הַזָּהָב , and the כְּרוּבִים

 Parshas Ki Sisah: What ever happened to the tablets Moshe shattered? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:32:24

What happened to the wooden box Moshe constructed for those three months?

 The 1555 Edition of HaChasid Yavetz on Pirkei Avos Being Offered by Genazym | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:54:22

R’ Yosef Yaabetz (1440-1508), premier Sefardi דרשן who tries to understand the Expulsion from Spain in 1492

 The Confusing Story of 12 Adar - יוֹם טְרָיׇנוּס | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:36:11

What was the real story of the great Jewish revolt against Trajan? Who exactly were the הֲרוּגֵי לֹד?

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