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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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 Compare & contrast Moshe and Eliyahu on how they dealt with idolatry | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:31:01

Why is this the haftorah, and not the story of the reappearance of the Golden Calf in the time of Jeroboam?

 G-d Shows Moses How to Pray and How He Likes to be Prayed to (Tefilah) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:31:57

The two meanings of מָקוֹם I'm the context of prayer

 The Golden Calf: Who Exactly Made It? (Parshas Ki Sisa) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:43:15

Why does Moses tell them to run around the Jewish community and kill at will?

 R’ Moshe Feinstein: How Come the אִגְּרוֹת מֹשֶׁה Took-Off Where So Many Others Did Not? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:42:34

Rare case of responsa writer who was an actual folk-hero

 Prayer in the Mishkan: Music? Singing? Lyrics? What Happened to the Songs? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:30:43

Is music an essential part of prayer? For all? For some?

 Why is Ezekiel Talking About the Third Temple When the Second Temple Had Not Even Been Built? (Haftarah Tetzaveh) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:28:20

What's the connection between a sense of profound shame and a Third (eternal) Temple?

 The Tzitz - What Exactly was Its Role? The Interpretation of the Rashbam (Parshas Tetzaveh) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:30:59

Why was Aaron chosen to be an integral part of the ritual atonement process?

 The 9th of Adar: The Sad Birthday of Talmudic מַחְלֹקֶת | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:36:51

Rambam's narrative of how unresolvable disputes developed in the era of בֵּית שַׁמַּאי וּבֵית הִלֵּל

 Rosh Chodesh Tefillah: Why Don't We Pray for Health on Rosh Chodesh? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:33:27

Does wine lead to prophecy, as Psalm 104 seems to suggest?

 Why Did Shlomo Build the Temple With Forced Labor? Why Conscript Converts to Judaism? (Haftarah Terumah) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:31:17

Why did Shlomo used non-Jewish (Lebanese)? Why not imitate Moses and appeal for Jewish volunteers?

 The Command to Build a Mishkan - A Response to Moshe's Request to See G-d's Face? (Parshas Terumah) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:30:56

Why were the tablets of the Ten Commandments never taken out of the box?

 הַ"זֶרַע אֱמֶת" רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל הַכֹּהֵן מִמּוֹדֶנָּה 1723-1811 | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 01:34:11

Last of the Italian gedolim. Gave it to Napoleon straight

 Is Shabbos Only for Jews or is There a Part of It That Applies to Gentiles? (Parshas Mishpatim) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:32:10

A gentile may not be שׁוֹמֵר שַׁבָּת, but he should be זוֹכֵר שַׁבָּת

 Chronology and the Torah: The Narration Our Parshas MIshpatim and the Debate About Whether It is in Chronological Order | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:33:50

What did Moses write down and read to the people after the Ten Commandments?

 Yishtabach: When did Hashem Choose Shirei Zimrah? (Tefillah) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:21:07

"הַבּוֹחֵר בְּשִׁירֵי זִמְרָה" - Why was there no music in the Mishkan? 

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