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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.
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.
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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
What did the Jews imagine was going to happen when they were told God would "pass over" their houses that night?
The German food crisis of 1942 as a cause of the setting-up of industrial genocide centers in Occupied Poland in 1942
High- Office will have the power to tempt the powerful to be corrupt even in the Messianic Era!
Shabbos - God the Creator of literally everything, hence beyond transcendentMishkan- God something that has a "presence" (שְׁכִינָה), hence somehow immanent
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
That which becomes impure can be made pure again; a nation that becomes homeless can regain their home
God can only be comprehended (to some extent) through history, not philosophy!
Why did the Jews stop observing Purim a few years after they originally accepted it?
Has Sinwar ימ"ש caused the death of Khamenei and the fall of his regime? The ironies of the Purim season
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?
Why would he deprecate the use of coercion on the non-frum? The answer lies in his own and his family's history...
וְנָתַתִּי לָהֶם בְּבֵיתִי וּבְחוֹמֹתַי יָד וָשֵׁם טוֹב מִבָּנִים וּמִבָּנוֹת שֵׁם עוֹלָם אֶתֶּן לוֹ אֲשֶׁר לֹא יִכָּרֵת
Had Esther's intervention not succeeded, would Mordechai THEN bow down to Haman to save the Jews?
Managing an unsolvable existential problem - the " זֵכֶר עֲמָלֵק" in every generation,
Who was the ממוכן who recommended הֵגֶא ? The world of varied interpretations of מגילת אסתר
Abarbanel wrote three books on Messianic themes: a,)מַעַיְנֵי הַיְּשׁוּעָה b.) יְשׁוּעוֹת מְשִׁיחוֹ c.) מַשְׁמִיעַ יְשׁוּעָה
When Haman fell from power, did Mordecai gain possession of Haman's "Jeffery Epstein Files"?
Why is שִׂנְאַת חִנָּם the thing that prevents the Rebuilding of the בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ ?
Both leaders wanted the Jews-by-birth to accept the Torah, and discerned they would be impressed by sight of the non-Jews who now embraced Judaism
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