Jewish History With Rabbi Dovid Katz

Pirkei Avos and the language of philosophy, not Midrash

The main complainers were the "house slaves," not the plantation slaves 

Rabbi Moshe Shuvalsky and his times (chinuch)

Why is Rabbi Meir preoccupied with לשמה?

Jeremiah, Josiah, and the misguided masses

Bilam, Pinchas, and Hamas

Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison and their impact on Jewish history

God's Fingers versus God's Hand

Why didn't Moshe respond to Bilam?

Bilam's עַיִן רָעָה: An incapacity for honest self appraisal?

The series will explore the controversies regarding Zionism and the political and religious spheres in the early years of the movement. Seven lectures in Baltimore

Why does Dovid say Saul is a רוֹדֵף? Isn't Saul the מלך? A מלך is not a רוֹדֵף !

Why didn't he say, "When I needed you, you didn't help me. Now that you need me,. I'm not going to help you!"

How was רבי צדוק מקיים the dictum אַל תִּפְרֹשׁ מִן הַצִּבּוּר?

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