The 3 Best Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz Podcast Episodes
1) War Against the Jewish Book: The Burning of the Talmud- Part 2
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2) War Against the Jewish Book: The Late Middle Ages- Part 3
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3) War Against the Jewish Book: The Renaissance and New Technology- Part 4
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War Against the Jewish Book: The Renaissance and New Technology- Part 4
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4) R Katz discusses a fascinating siddur published in Greece in 1941 who omits the word יָוָן from עַל הַנִּסִּים
At that moment, Greece under the Metaxas Regime was saving the Jews from Hitler and Mussolini
5) פָּרָשַׁת וַיִּגַּשׁ תשפ"ו - Was Joseph actually the VICEROY, the ruler of Egypt? Or just the czar of the economy?
The roe of the Jew in the Egyptian economy foreshadowed the role of the Jew in later economies: find a niche not occupied by the native inhabitants.לע"נ יששכר מאיר בן ברוך סטפנסקי
6) Final Chanukah 2025 Thoughts: וּלְךָ עָשִֽׂיתָ שֵׁם גָּדוֹל וְקָדוֹשׁ בְּעוֹלָמֶֽךָ
"Olamecha" also means hidden or invisible. Through the miracle of the oil, an Invisible God became "visible" (so to speak)
7) Another Apocryphal "Midrash" on the Chanukah Story, with interesting takes on the discovery of the jar of oil
The jar of oil was located under the altar. Had they not torn down the existing altar (as an act of piety, to replace it with a new, unblemished altar), they would not have found the famous פַּךְ שֶׁמ...Show More
8) Haftarah Shabbos Chanukah: The Vision of Zachariah and its relevance to Chanukah
The Menorah that stayed lit for eight days was being fueled by the two (spiritual) olive trees in Zachariah's prophetic vision https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
9) פָּרָשַׁת מִקֵּץ תשפ"ו - Yosef, the first "Court Jew"
Comparing & Contrasting Yosef with Hasdai ibn Shaprut, Shmuel haNagid, Benjamin Disraeli, and Henry Kissinger
10) Chanukah, the Maccabean Wars, and the Civil wars in Seleucid Syria
The Jews' final victory was due to the political disintegration of the Syrian state at that time