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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 Maharik” (R’ Joseph Colon): The Greatest Gadol in Italian History | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:54:04

The Influence of Classic Ashkenaz on Italian Jewry

 The "Gechazi Phenomenon" Then and Now - Haftarah Vayera | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:37:47

The Gadol and the hypocritical and unscrupulous secretary/screener

 Parshas VaYera: Whatever Happened to Lot, Anyway? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:35:28

Why did G-d grant land to Lot's progeny in perpetuity? Why are both daughters ancestors of the Messiah?

 Rabbi Abraham Rice, the First Rov in the USA. Tragedy of a Talmid Chacham in a Philistine Jewish Community | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 01:35:20

What does it take to be a "successful" Rabbi in a materialistic Jewish community?

 Parshas Lech Lecha: Abraham and the Two Fateful Interviews With Sodom and Malki Tzedek | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:43:58

A callous act leads to galus mitzrayim as poetic justice

 R' Aryeh Tzvi Fromer: One of the Last of the Great Poilishe Geonim and Author of the Fascinating Responsa Eretz Tzvi | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:39:50

The Hasid in the role of Rosh Yeshivah and Maggid Shiur. Pilpul as fun!

 Parshas Noach: Why Couldn't G-d Think of an Alternative to Mass Genocide? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:31:30

Is it possible to "kill" the Yetzer Tov?

 The Maharashdam- R' Shmuel de Medina of Salonika (1505-1589): One of the Greatest Sephardic Responsa Writers of All Time | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 01:46:03

From the Golden Age of A+ level, Sephardic Poskim. Calm, compassionate, daring.

 R’ Katz's new lecture series will be livestreamed Saturday nights at 9:00 PM | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:01:39

You can access the livestream on Rabbi Katz's YouTube channel, "Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz"

 Parshas Bereishis: Blaming the Snake | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:38:08

The snake in Paradise and the frum riots in NY and Israel

 R Shmuel Landau, Son of the Noda B'Yehudah (1750-1834): The Challenge of Being a Great Man's Son | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 01:50:02

Would have been a worthy successor to his father, but historical trends were in the wrong direction

 Rabbi Samson Morpurgo of Ancona: Classic Italian "Torah u-Madda" | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 01:23:30

A wonderful example of a Posek who is "normal"

 R' Hile Wechsler: Yekke Critic of German Jewry, Criticized by Contemporaries But Vindicated (Terribly) by History | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 01:57:12

A dreamer of incredible accuracy. He foresaw the Holocaust long before it happened. Admirer & critic of R' S.R. Hirsch

 The Meaning of the Ushpizin Ceremony - Perception vs. Reality (Sukkos 2020) | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:39:33

When outsiders use "insider" terms, incorrectly

 Sukkos 2020: The History of the Sukkah as a Diras Kevah? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 00:54:38

Revolution in “Sukkah consciousness" in the time of Ezra? A theory

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