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Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz

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

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00:34:13

Various definitions of אִשָּׁה חֲשׁוּבָה (Passover...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/03/17

Looks? Bucks? Yichus? Higher salary? Higher job position? Class? Equal Partner in the Marriage?

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00:37:38

פָּרָשַׁת וַיִּקְרָא תשפ"ו - Rambam on Korbanos that...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/03/15

For the first year after the original Passover, there were basically no korbanos (with a few exceptions) in Judaism

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00:53:18

More Strange Bedfellows: Germany financed Israel's A-...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/03/13

Israel agreed not to "out" ex-Nazis in the West German Government. A grateful Germany bankrolled Israel's secret nuclear project. An previously unknown detail of the relationship between Ben Gurion and Konrad Adenauer

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00:25:23

זֵכֶר יְצִיאַת מִצְרַיִם VS סִפּוּר יְצִיאַת...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/03/11

What did the Jews imagine was going to happen when they were told God would "pass over" their houses that night?

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00:36:40

Some historical considerations re: Poles, Jews,...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/03/10

The German food crisis of 1942 as a cause of the setting-up of industrial genocide centers in Occupied Poland in 1942

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00:25:05

הַפְטָרַת פָּרָשַׁת הַחֹדֶשׁ תשפ"ו - Abrabanel:...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/03/09

High- Office will have the power to tempt the powerful to be corrupt even in the Messianic Era!

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00:26:01

פָּרָשַׁת וַיַּקְהֵל-פְּקוּדֵי תשפ"ו The Contrast...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/03/09

Shabbos - God the Creator of literally everything, hence beyond transcendentMishkan- God something that has a "presence" (שְׁכִינָה), hence somehow immanent

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01:02:06

Abarbanel on Messianism Part 2. R Katz gives a...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/03/08

Abarbanel burns with indignation at the falsehoods to which the Jews had been subject at the Disputation of Tortosa (1413) and the hostile misrepresentations of Aggadah in Raymond Martini's infamous 'Pugio Fidei" cynically hurled at them

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00:23:36

הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת פָּרָה תשפ"ו - The Red Cow as a...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/03/06

That which becomes impure can be made pure again; a nation that becomes homeless can regain their home

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00:30:33

פָּרָשַׁת כִּי תִּשָּׂא תשפ"ו - Why the Juxtaposition...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/03/04

God can only be comprehended (to some extent) through history, not philosophy!

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00:41:22

The shaky acceptance of Purim by the Jewish people...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/03/04

Why did the Jews stop observing Purim a few years after they originally accepted it?

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00:38:22

Iran and Hamas: בּוֹר כָּרָה וַיַּחְפְּרֵהוּ...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/03/02

Has Sinwar ימ"ש caused the death of Khamenei and the fall of his regime? The ironies of the Purim season

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00:36:23

Analyzing the קִיְּמוּ וְקִבְּלוּ episode. If it is...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/03/02

Was the mountain held over their heads at Sinai to compel them to accept ALL the mitzvot? Did the Jews not want to accept ANY mitzvot? Or just some of them? In other words, what actually happened as a result of Purim?

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00:37:41

The archaeology of a Dvar Torah - The כְּתַב סוֹפֵר...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/03/01

Why would he deprecate the use of coercion on the non-frum? The answer lies in his own and his family's history...

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00:08:21

Addendum to the podcast this morning re: הֵגֶא סְרִיס...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/02/26

וְנָתַתִּי לָהֶם בְּבֵיתִי וּבְחוֹמֹתַי יָד וָשֵׁם טוֹב מִבָּנִים וּמִבָּנוֹת שֵׁם עוֹלָם אֶתֶּן לוֹ אֲשֶׁר לֹא יִכָּרֵת

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00:32:08

Why some rabbis disliked Mordechai - They thought the...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/02/25

Had Esther's intervention not succeeded, would Mordechai THEN bow down to Haman to save the Jews?

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00:31:33

הַפְטָרַת פָּרָשַׁת זְכֹר תשפ"ו - What the is the...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/02/25

Managing an unsolvable existential problem - the " זֵכֶר עֲמָלֵק" in every generation,

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00:32:01

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/02/25

Who was the ממוכן who recommended הֵגֶא ? The world of varied interpretations of מגילת אסתר

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00:45:39

Abarbanel on Messianism Part 1 - this historical...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/02/24

Abarbanel wrote three books on Messianic themes: a,)מַעַיְנֵי הַיְּשׁוּעָה b.) יְשׁוּעוֹת מְשִׁיחוֹ c.) מַשְׁמִיעַ יְשׁוּעָה

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00:25:15

How did Mordecai & Esther know the contents of the...

Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz ·

2026/02/23

When Haman fell from power, did Mordecai gain possession of Haman's "Jeffery Epstein Files"?

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