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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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 Rosh HaShanah: Why is שְׁבָרִים "Male"? Why is תְּרוּעָה "Female"? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:35:56

On the day of Creation, did G-d do נְשִׁימָה אַחַת or שְׁתֵּי נְשִׁימוֹת?

 Which Tekios are the Ones Which Confuse Satan? - The Baal HaMaor and The Raavad | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:32:02

A historical suggestion of the בַּעַל הַמָּאוֹר and the vituperative criticism of the Raavad

 Scratching Beneath the Surface of the Debate About Blowing Shofar During the Silent Amidah | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:29:24

Was blowing nine blasts originally an anti-Saducee act? Were they blown all at once?

 How Did Christianity Become Identified with Edom? (Haftarah Nitzavim) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:35:06

The ibn Ezra on the first Christians. Why Does Edom Have to Be Destroyed?

 Parshas Nitzavim: Moses Fears That Nostalgia for Egypt May Trump 40 Years of Miracles in the Desert | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:38:41

What are the "hidden" and "revealed" things to which Moses refers?

 Rabbi Dr. Bernard Illowy (1814-1871): The Only Talmid Chacham in Mid-19th Century America, Other Than Rabbi Abraham Rice | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 01:21:51

Superbly educated, highly-gifted, a brilliant-success, a tragic failure

 The Shofar Mystery: How Did Rabbi Avahu Get the Jewish people to Change the Way They Had Always Blown Shofar? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:39:00

Rambam says the Jews forgot how to blow shofar. How exactly does he understand this to have happened?

 Utopia on Steroids: The Glorious Future Predicted By the Prophet Isaiah (Haftarah Ki Savo) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:32:02

If you could create a Utopia, what would it look like? Isaiah's?

 A History of the Piyutim Controversies: The Classic Debates About Adding Piyutim to the Liturgy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:52:10

The critics of Kaliri vs. the defenders -famous Gedolim, all of them.

 Parshas Ki Savo: Is the Speech We Read Identical With the One Delivered By Moses? Or is It Edited? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:37:34

Why does the end of the Tochachah describe a national psychological depression?

 Selichos: Its Origins and Evolution - Several Completely Different Paradigms | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:40:00

Liturgical creativity? Musical creativity? Reflections of different communities.

 Isaiah's Prophecy: The Childless Woman Suddenly Has Five Sets of Triplets! (Haftarah Ki Seitzei) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:23:04

The great blessing of putting a negative past in proper perspective

 Elul, Pt. 2: The Ran on the Original Elul - Did the Jews Pray? Or Just Moses? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:29:18

The Jews (some of them) began to "crack" after 30 days in the original Elul. This became Rosh HaShanah

 T’kah Bshofar Gadol:Shofar As Audial Wakeup Call, Flag As Visual Wakeup Call. What's the Difference? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:30:39

Can a Jew live in Israel and still be in galus?

 Parshas Ki Seitzei: The Strange Law About the Captive Woman. | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:39:09

An exception to the prohibition of intermarriage (הָאַבְנֵי מִלּוּאִים)?

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