Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz
To help support this podcast, please consider giving a tax deductible contribution here: https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz 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.
Episodes
Just as G-d promised no more floods that can destroy the entire human race, so too He promises not to destroy the entire Jewish People.
Noah walked "with G-d," but could not get ahead of G-d, that is, he did not establish rules for the survivors of the Flood to ensure they would not revert to sin. IOW Noah was good but not great.
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The first Cyrus was a complex figure in Jewish history. The battle of the lobbyists at the ancient Persian Court. A playbook for Qatar?
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Was Rabbeinu Tam a kind of French nobleman? Why did he practice falconry ? Why did the Count of Champagne turn to him to explain the David-Saul story?
Who is it that 'has eyes but does not see, ears but does not hear"?
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In a Jewish world with unbridgeable divisions, we must be alert to divinely-sent "opportunities that pass"
What is the meaning of striking the ground?
Intra-Jewish ideological politics underneath the dry discourse of the responsa literature
Warding-off the dangers from literally all directions. In both the personal life, and in the life of the Jewish People
It is not enoughto embrace monotheism. The monotheism has to include a כְּלַל יִשְׂרָאֵל as the עַם הַנִּבְחָר (even thoughthey don't seem to fit the role)
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The challenge of constantly evaluating the enemy, not by his intentions, but by his capabilities!
Lulav - the spears
Esrog - the food
Hadassim - the "roofs" of the foxholes
Aravos - ditto
לְפִי שִׁיטַת הָ"רוֹקֵחַ" ב "סֻכּוֹת מַמָּשׁ"
It commemorates events that happened in Tishrei, not Nissan (acc. to R Akiva)
Sukkah = Jewish Survival in Galus (Branches detached from the soil)
Tree = Rootedness in the soil
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Was he an Iranian spy? A Zoroastrian clergyman? A Jewish BT who repented?
The Ancient Debate and the Concerns for the Social Consequences on the Community. What if everyone did the sin?!
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The Tragedy of Jonah after he saves Nineveh. What did he do with the rest of his life?
Jewish religious creativity in Israel under the oppressive Christian regime of the Byzantine Empire: Piyutim!
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What does complete victory look like to King David? Contrast it with Israel's current war situation.
A historian (and the Jewish People!) must know the facts of their past, but then they must properly analyze them in order to use the knowledge correctly
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