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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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 Observations on Devarim: Why is Moshe's Rhetoric Harsher in סֵפֶר דְּבָרִים Than Elsewhere in the Chumash? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:31:22

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

 Eating Before Shofar: The Historical Source for the Yeshivos Having a Kiddush Before Shofar-Blowing | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:36:14

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

 R’ Joseph Ottolenghi: The One Whose Work You Skip Over in the Back of the Gemara | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:44:25

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

 Rabbi Katz is leading a tour of the Bible Museum in DC on חול המועד סוכות | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:02:41

The tour will take place on Tuesday Chol haMoed

 R’ Menachem Mendel Gluskin of Minsk and Leningrdad: Trying to Be Jewish Under Stalin | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:58:56

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

 The First Zohar Ever Printed-Cremona 1559 - Offered by Genazym | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:37:56

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

 Haftarah Netzavim-Vayelech: Isaiah's Vision of the Future - Redemption, But Not Followed By Peace | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:27:34

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

 Parshas Netzavim-VaYelech: Moses' Demand for Perfection Runs into Human Nature | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:33:06

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

 Elul: No Protection Against the Satan This Year on the First Day of Rosh Hashanah | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:30:01

Why did the חכמים prohibit the shofar on Shabbos?

 Responsa Mahari ben Lev From Genazym (1598) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:38:18

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

 More on the New שׁוּ"ת חוּט הַשָּׁנִי Edition and the Famous Controversies of Yesteryear | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:56:17

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

 Parshas Ki Savo: Abarbanel Applies the תּוֹכָחָה to the Marranos | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:35:00

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

 The Strange History of Shevarim | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:36:41

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

 Haftarah Ki Savo: Isaiah's Brilliant Use of אוֹר וְחֹשֶׁךְ, Not as Physical Light and Darkness | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:27:46

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

 Sefer HaManhig: Genazym is Offering the Original Edition, By a Talmid of the ר"י בעל התוספת | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:35:14

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

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