Jewish History With Rabbi Dovid Katz

R Katz offers an entirely different explanation

R’ Katz analyzes two stories from a recent book on Polish Jewry as reflecting personal as well as cultural reasons for leaving Yiddishkeit

From Rabbi Katz’ 2017 Summer Lecture Series entitled: Kulturkampf-Haskalah: The Haskalah Wars  - Lecture 1

The prophet Samuel's Class Act

Did the Korach episode really happen in פָּרָשַׁת כִּי תִּשָּׂא?

הַכֹּל צָפוּי וְהָרְשׁוּת נְתוּנָה- An outstanding example of the difference between Ashkenaz and Sephard

Herzl’s unsuccessful attempts to find a country who would get the Turks to give up Palestine

What about לֹא תְחַיֶּה כָּל נְשָׁמָה?

Intelligence has two parts: a.) Information gathering b.) Information assessment (connecting the dots)

Living through the horrors of Jewish anarchy, he preferred Roman tyranny with all its faults

Why was political Zionism perceived as מְטַמֵּא אֶת הַטְּהוֹרִים אֲבָל מְטַהֵר אֶת הַטְּמֵאִים?

Realistic evaluations of politics and politicians based on long experience in שְׁתַדְּלָנוּת

To get the full picture, read the last chapters of the book of Ezra

If Jethro's son, had he befriended Moshe when he lived with Jethro? Was חוֹבׇב turned-off by the Jews blaming the גֵּרִים for the Golden Calf?

Russia, China, Iran, Turkey- all obsessed with recovering glorious pasts, even at the risk of nuclear war

Genazym auctioning the first edition, plus a historic תשובה בכתב יד from the ב"ח himself

Do we put grass nowadays on the floors of our homes and synagogues? And who were the צֹאן וּבָקָר at Sinai?

Without כְּאִישׁ אֶחָד בְּלֵב אֶחָד, it would not be possible to get a collective binding נַעֲשֶׂה וְנִשְׁמָע

The problem of trying to give a rational interpretation for what is clearly a mystical event, as Rambam himself admits

PLUS the ONLY surviving copy of the famous חֵרֶם issued by R’ Yosef Caro's בֵּית דִּין. A classic tale in Jewish history