A(z) Rabbi Dr Dovid Katz csatorna legjobb podcastjai (2025)

If you go by the Talmudic literature, there was other oil available, but they started with the oil in the famous jar and it burned for eight days. https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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Parshas VaYishlach: Why does Jacob say to Esau that he observed all 613 Mitzvos? 27:22

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Why didn't Jacob send messengers to his father Yitzchak? Instead of to Esau? https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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The "בַּת עַיִן" in Historical Context (1765-1840) 1:11:46

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The challenges of living in צְפַת in the terrible 1830s How to live in the old אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל without being victimized by the חֲלֻקָּה system

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Haftarah VaYeitzei: Hoshea 11:7, an extremely difficult verse to parse 30:23

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Sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Mordy Gardyn 'in honor of my parents may they have אֲרִיכַת יָמִים וְשָׁנִים and sponsored by "a member of the local fan club"🙂 How can you get a unified response to crisis when the theological causes are not clear? וְאֶל עַל יִקְרָאֻהוּ יַחַד לֹא יְרוֹמֵםhttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast…

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What's with this Israeli preoccupation with the bodies of their dead, killed by Hamas & Co.? 32:04

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Why does Israel release live Arab terrorists (who admit they will kill again if they can!) in exchange for the corpses of Jewish dead? Is this a Halachic thing? A Zionist thing?

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Parshas VaYeitzei: What is Yaakov afraid of? 30:51

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Let's examine the image of the ladder closely

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Some thoughts on Self-Hating and Self-Denying Jews in the current antisemitic climate, now and a century ago 33:20

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When Arabs slaughtered (literally) the Jew in Hebron in 1929, the Communist Party said it was the fault of the Jews and the Arabs were in the right. And Jewish Communists sided with the Party! Similar things are happening today ... https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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Answering a listener's query re: allegorical interpretations of Biblical stories in ultra-orthodox sources 27:15

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If the Hebrew language pre-existed the physical world, then it is not subject to the rules of linguistic evolution, and if is constitutive of the physical world and its history, then the non physical interpretations are NOT at the expense of the literal meanings. https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast…

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The Recent Posthumous Promotion of Alfred Dreyfus to General in the French Army 47:23

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Was Alfred Dreyfus really a self-hating or self-denying assimilated Jew?

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Haftarah Toldos: Quantity vs. quality in the performance of mitzvos. An age-old problem. Sigh 26:15

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"אֶת עֵקֶב אָהַבְתִּי וְאֶת עֵשָׂו שָׂנֵאתִי" - ?Why

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Manasseh Ben Israel's (very recently translated from the Latin) "Thirty Problem Concerning מַעֲשֵׂה בְּרֵאשִׁית" 28:23

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Giving the Jewish POV of Genesis to the world of European Intellectuals in the 17th Century

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Parshas Toldos: Was Yitzchak Avinu poverty-stricken (Ibn Ezra)? 26:13

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Yaakov acquires claim to Israel through purchase, a sale subsequently resented by the seller. Sounds like Jewish History in Israel 1880-1948 https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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The recent 50th anniversary (November 10, 1975) of Moynihan's great speech at the UN excoriating the אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם for officially branding Zionism as Racism 29:54

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One of the great speeches in the English language of the 20th century חֲבָל עַל דְּאָבְדִין וְלָא מִשְׁתַּכְחִין https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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Rabbi Michoel Forshlager of Baltimore: His recent yahrtzeit and some thoughts on this remarkable gadol 54:08

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Whole busloads come to Baltimore every week to pray at the kever of a person who, a short time ago, was unknown...

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הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת חַיֵּי שָׂרָה תשפ"ו Adonijah vs. Shlomo: the Background 28:01

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Was it just a case of political intrigue? Or did people sincerely distrust Nathan re: the David Bathsheba story?

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Parshas Chayei Sarah: Why does Avrohom adjure Eliezer not to take a wife from the Bnos Knaani for Yitzchok? 34:32

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Abraham's visit to his relatives in אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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The Current Christian Dispute Between Philosemites and Antisemites 25:23

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It all goes back to 1657 and that strange episode of English Christian would-be missionaries who sent money to Jerusalem to save the starving Jews there. https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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Haftarah VaYera: Elisha and the Shunamis 23:12

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Elisha does not blame the death of the child on the woman's sins. "The Buck stops here!"

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Psalm 83 and the current coinciding of שִׂנְאַת יִשְׂרָאֵל on the part of the Antisemitic Christian influencers and their counterparts in the בני ישמעאל world 26:16

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כִּי הִנֵּה אוֹיְבֶיךָ יֶהֱמָיוּן וּמְשַׂנְאֶיךָ נָשְׂאוּ רֹאשׁ: ד עַל עַמְּךָ יַעֲרִימוּ סוֹד וְיִתְיָעֲצוּ עַל צְפוּנֶיךָ: ה אָמְרוּ לְכוּ וְנַכְחִידֵם מִגּוֹי וְלֹא יִזָּכֵר שֵׁם יִשְׂרָאֵל עוֹד: ו כִּי נוֹעֲצוּ לֵב יַחְדָּו עָלֶיךָ בְּרִית יִכְרֹתוּ: ז אָהֳלֵי אֱדוֹם וְיִשְׁמְעֵאלִים

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Parshas VaYera: The Rashbam's unique take on Abraham's encounter with the Three Angels 28:27

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According to Rashbam, there is no tikkun sofrim in this parsha! https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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Part 2: The Other "Hellenistic Judaism" - not the Chanukah villains 43:09

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The fight over the language of קְרִיאַת הַתּוֹרָה בְּבֵית הַכְּנֶסֶת

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The Current Wave of Antisemitism in Italy - My reaction to a podcast 36:07

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Are we seeing a long-internalized resentment by Italian Catholics to the liberalized theology towards the Jews adopted by The Church in 1965?

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Part 1: The Other "Hellenistic Judaism" - not the Chanukah villains 30:10

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The other Hellenistic Judaism, not identical with Talmudic Judaism (but not un-frum) but more widespread, once upon a time . Part 1 of a 2 part series https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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Haftarah Lech Lecha: Drawing inspiration from Abraham's victory over the Four Kings 24:47

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Though outnumbered, Klal Yisroel will rip through the enemy like a thresher. So do not succumb to enemy efforts to undermine your morale https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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Parshas Lech Lecha: "And he will be a wild donkey of a man..." 24:23

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Resh Lakish "Yishmael will be into kidnapping people and taking hostages"! https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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The Abarbanel on the Stories in Genesis: The relationship between literal and symbolic meanings of Scripture 24:02

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When did full-blown idolatry begin? AFTER the Flood. Isn't that strange? https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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Haftarah Noach: The Flood as a metonymy for Jewish suffering down the Ages... 23:31

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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.

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Parshas Noach: Noah and "the Day After" 27:08

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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. https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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Is Donald Trump a "Second Cyrus"? 27:15

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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? https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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Rabbeinu Tam and Count Henry I of Champagne (and Countess Marie) 42:50

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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?

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Haftarah Bereishis: Israel will survive (Al Aqsa) Floods and even the fires of internal strife 21:54

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Who is it that 'has eyes but does not see, ears but does not hear"? https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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Parshas Bereishis: The world was created for a UNITED Klal Yisroel 33:05

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In a Jewish world with unbridgeable divisions, we must be alert to divinely-sent "opportunities that pass"

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The Strage history of Hoshanah Rabbah in the Temple: The Willow vs. the Palm Frond ( הַלּוּלָב שֶׁנִּפְרְדוּ עָלָיו) 40:40

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What is the meaning of striking the ground?

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The Chasam Sofer, the Yad haMelech and the "Overused" Esrog - Haredi vs. Maskilic notions of aesthetics 37:45

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Intra-Jewish ideological politics underneath the dry discourse of the responsa literature

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נִעֲנוּעִים: The ritual of lulav-waving and its contemporary relevance in the year 5786 (2025) 25:34

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Warding-off the dangers from literally all directions. In both the personal life, and in the life of the Jewish People

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Sukkos 2025: What's with the strange ritual of פָּרֵי הַחַג? 30:19

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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) https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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One expectation from the elites, a different expectation from the masses

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