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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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 Haftarah Shekalim: Why Didn't the King Just Raise the Money for the Temple by Appealing to the Public? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:28:59

The synagogue vs. the house minyan: בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ vs. בָּמוֹת

 Nahmanides on Gehinnom - Sinners Do Actually Burn in a Certain Kind of Fire. It's Not an Allegory | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:30:45

There's an intermediate state of existence between the physical and the metaphysical, as evidenced by the soul being inside a specific body

 A יְרוּשַׁלְמִי שְׁקָלִים from the Famous Bomberg ש"ס of the 1520s - For Sale at Genazym | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:53:06

From the original edition of the בַּבְלִי וִירוּשַׁלְמִי in Renaissance Venice, with its strange history

 The unscrupulous "richie-riches" free the Hebrew slaves whom they have held too long | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:28:20

But discover they are addicted to the slavery-system and forcibly repossess them, engraging Hashem

 The connection between the מִשְׁפָּטִים and the Yisro incident | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:31:03

Who gets the better of whom? The lender or the borrower who becomes an עֶבֶד עִבְרִי?

 R’ Judah Mintz (1405 -1508), Who Turned Padua into the "Lakewood " of Italy | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 01:05:57

Famous for his responsa, and for his controversies over halachic matters

 Ramban's Theory of the Sumum Bonum | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:33:19

Differs from the view of Maimonides. Olam Haba will occur here on physical earth

 Isaiah's Vision of G-d Seated on a Throne etc. Subjective Reality vs. Objective Reality | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:30:51

Stubbornness is a great crime in spirituality

 Chaim Grade (1910-1982): Some Thoughts About the Yiddish Novelist | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 01:00:26

A brilliant novelist who consistently "bet on the wrong horse." Atheist who learned with the Chazon Ish.

 What exactly did Yisro mean that Moshe should be מוּל הָאֱלֹהִים ? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:33:43

What is the meaning of נָבוֹל תִּבֹּל?

 Eliyahu HaBachur HaAshkenazi (1470-1549) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 01:11:23

Author of famous grammar works, but also of the original "Bava Maaseh" אֵלִיָּהוּ בָּחוּר הָאַשְׁכְּנַזִּי הֲכִי גָּדוֹל בְּדִקְדּוּק

 The Aftermath of the Maimonidean Controversies, Lecture 7 of 7 | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 01:05:17

From Rabbi Katz’ Summer 2022 Lecture Series, “Fundamental Disagreement: The Maimonidean Controversies Of the Middle Ages”

 Rambam on Resurrection (which is not part of nature) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:31:39

Vs. עוֹלָם הַבָּא (which is indeed part of the natural world)

 Haftarah Beshalach: How is the Story of Pharaoh Similar to That of Sisera? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:35:00

Was Barak right not to care about his personal glory?

 Parshas Beshalach: The Complaints Against Moshe's Leadership - "Heading the Wrong Way!" | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:26:34

You have already killed most of us!

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