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Haftarah Ki Seitzei: The woman who medically could not bear children suddenly has sextuplets!
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The Jewish People are עֲקוּרָה, uprooted from their native soil, but they will recover it!
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Thoughts on the curved shofar vs. the straight shofar
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R Katz analyzes the evolution of Rosh Hashanah over the millennia into its current universal form
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Parshas Ki Seitzei: Amalek in Our Parsha and the Attack on October 7
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פָּרָשַׁת כִּי תֵּצֵא: זְכִירַת עֲמָלֵק בַּזְּמַן הַזֶּה
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The Expulsion from Prague (1745) and The Network of Rich European Jews: A Tale of Achdus, Pt. 2
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The richie-rich network in action
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Haftarah Parshat Shoftim: Redemption comes to a battered and bloodied Jewish People
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Bittersweet - A Glorious Geulah, but a depressed Jewish People scarred by their sufferings in galus
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Parshas Shoftim: The False Prophet in Jewish History
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The Institutions (Monarchy, Judiciary, Priesthood) vs. Prophecy, which is individualized
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The Expulsion from Prague (1745) and The Network of Rich European Jews: A Tale of Achdus, Pt. 1
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When all Jews with influence (unlike today) joined together for the sake of Klal Yisroel
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Elul and the Current Situation in the State of Israel
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אֲנִי לְדוֹדִי וְדוֹדִי לִי - Is that בֵּין אָדָם לַמָּקוֹם? Or בֵּין אָדָם לַחֲבֵרוֹ?
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Haftorah Parshas Re'eh - The glorious house with the diamond chandeliers
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Isaiah foresees a world without terrorism!
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Pirkei Avos - אַל תַּעַשׂ תְּפִלָּתְךָ קֶבַע
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What is the historical context of prayer at the time of R' Shimon bar Yochai?
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Parshas Re'eh: "V'Yishavtem Betach-" Secure Internally? Or Externally?
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The Two Mountains and Moral Clarity
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The Great Semicha Controversy of Safed (צפת): The controversy in the 16th century within the broad framework of Jewish History
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The attempt to revive a Jewish "church" and why it was destined to fail when the Jews were in גלות
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Abraham haKohen Herera of Italy and Amsterdam (c. 1570-1635)
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The strange world of the Marranos who were seriously into Kabbalah
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Underconfidence, Overconfidence, and Smug Self-Righteousness
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Haftarah Eikev: Isaiah predicts the rescue of the hostages in Gaza!
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By The times of the Messiah, most Jews will have given up on Geulah
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15th of Av 2024 - The Dance of the Maidens
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Did the "shidduch system" break down? When? Why?
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Pirkei Avos: אַל תִּתְחַבֵּר לָרָשָׁע
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R' Samson Raphael Hirsch vs. R' Chaim Brisker?
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The Role of Moshe in the "Second" Ten Commandments (Parshas VaEschanan)
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Moshe changes some of the wording to fit his audience, who were not present at the Revelation on Sinai
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Haftarah Shabbos Nachamu: Glorious news to a battered people
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The happy aspect of the Messianic Process (unlike other parts of the Bible)
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Parshas VaEschanan: Gratitude and Ingratitude
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What's with the references to Peor, Bais Peor and Baal Peor? The chink in the armor of Klal Yisroel
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Kinnos on Tisha B'Av 2022, given by Rabbi Katz
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Kinnos on Tisha B'Av 2022, given by R' Katz
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They cannot penetrate our defenses unless we ourselves open a breach for them
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Pirkei Avos, Ch. 4: R' Masia ben Cheresh
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The pertinent observations of a Rosh Yeshiva in the City of Rome, far from "the scene of action"
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Haftarah Parshas Chazon: Isaiah blasts the hypocrisy of the Jewish leadership class
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When misfortune strikes, don't check your mezuzah, check your חֹשֶׁן מִשְׁפָּט!
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Parshas Devarim: A Geographical Nightmare
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Did Moshe harangue them in nine places? Or about their misdeeds in nine? Or in a place with nine geographical markers?
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Pirkei Avos, Chapter 2: Rabbi Gamliel Jr. and תּוֹרָה עִם דֶּרֶךְ אֶרֶץ
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R Tarphon - Learning Torah like a businessman
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Glory, Tragedy, and Identity Fluidity: A tale of a modern Ger Tzedek in Germany a century ago
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Baron von Manstein and his times (Kaiser, Weimar Republic, Third Reich)
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The Jewish general who commanded the Roman armies that destroyed the Bais HaMikdash
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The strange tale of Tiberius Julius Alexander, nephew of Philo, chief of staff to Titus
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Revenge, the Current Middle East Crisis and Parshas Matos
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G-d says avenge the wrong done to Israel by Midian; Moses says avenge the wrong done to G-d by Midian
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Haftorah Three Weeks - The Jewish Trait of Ingratitude (Jeremiah Ch. 2)
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Why is it the Jews were unfaithful in times of prosperity but faithful in times of persecution?
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Pirkei Avos Ch.1: Why does it say Moshe got the Torah from Sinai? Sinai did not give him the Torah!
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Pirkei Avos and the language of philosophy, not Midrash
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Parshas Matos-Masei: Why the Jews could not get Egypt out of their systems even after 42 journeys
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The main complainers were the "house slaves," not the plantation slaves
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Chinuch in the 20th Century from the Perspective of the 21st
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Rabbi Moshe Shuvalsky and his times (chinuch)
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Why is Rabbi Meir preoccupied with לשמה?
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Jeremiah, Josiah, and the misguided masses
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Parshas Pinchas: Bilaam, Pinchas and the Hamas Attacks
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Bilam, Pinchas, and Hamas
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Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison and Their Impact on Jewish History
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The Presidential Elections of 2024 vs. the Presidential Elections of 1892
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The two models of שְׁאֵרִית יַעֲקֹב בְּקֶרֶב עַמִּים רַבִּים
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God's Fingers versus God's Hand
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Why didn't Moshe respond to Bilam?
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Why Abraham vs. Bilam? Why not Moshe vs. Bilam?
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Bilam's עַיִן רָעָה: An incapacity for honest self appraisal?
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Rabbi Katz is having a lecture series starting next week on Zionism in its early years
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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
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A Dvar Torah on מסכת ברכות on the 16th Yahrtzheit of Rabbi Katz's Mother ע"ה
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Why does Dovid say Saul is a רוֹדֵף? Isn't Saul the מלך? A מלך is not a רוֹדֵף !
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Was Yiftach Violent and Crimes Oriented ( in his first iteration)? Or a Kid Mistreated by the ציבור?
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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!"
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Pirkei Avos: What is the context of אַל תְּהִי בָז לְכָל אָדָם? Could it have involved שידוכים?
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How was רבי צדוק מקיים the dictum אַל תִּפְרֹשׁ מִן הַצִּבּוּר?
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Parshas Chukas: What EXACTLY was the sin of Moshe?
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R’ Katz offers an entirely different explanation
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Two famous icons of anti-religious culture: What caused them to go OTD?
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R’ Katz analyzes two stories from a recent book on Polish Jewry as reflecting personal as well as cultural reasons for leaving Yiddishkeit
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The “Old Haskalah” - Comfortably Nestled within Cultural Insularity
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From Rabbi Katz’ 2017 Summer Lecture Series entitled: Kulturkampf-Haskalah: The Haskalah Wars - Lecture 1
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Haftarah Korach: Do you fire a good leader because they are old?
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The prophet Samuel's Class Act
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How could Korach successfully challenge the bona fides of Moses? After מַתַּן תּוֹרָה!
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Did the Korach episode really happen in פָּרָשַׁת כִּי תִּשָּׂא?
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