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Why is Rabbi Meirr 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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Bilam and the modern Hamasniks ימ"ש
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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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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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The Social Interaction Aspect of Piety (Pirkei Avos, Ch. 3)
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הַכֹּל צָפוּי וְהָרְשׁוּת נְתוּנָה- An outstanding example of the difference between Ashkenaz and Sephard
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Herzl and the British Offer to Create a State of Israel...in Africa!
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Herzl’s unsuccessful attempts to find a country who would get the Turks to give up Palestine
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Haftarah Shelach: The Remarkable Career of Rachav
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What about לֹא תְחַיֶּה כָּל נְשָׁמָה?
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Parshas Shlach and October 7th
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Intelligence has two parts: a.) Information gathering b.) Information assessment (connecting the dots)
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R’ Chanina Sgan Kohanim and His Conservative Political Philosophy (Avos Ch. 3)
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Living through the horrors of Jewish anarchy, he preferred Roman tyranny with all its faults
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Herzl, Political Zionism, and the Campus Riots, Pt. 6
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Why was political Zionism perceived as מְטַמֵּא אֶת הַטְּהוֹרִים אֲבָל מְטַהֵר אֶת הַטְּמֵאִים?
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Observations About Politics in the Dynasty of Hillel - Pirkei Avos, Ch. 2
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Realistic evaluations of politics and politicians based on long experience in שְׁתַדְּלָנוּת
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Haftarah BeHaaloscha: The prophet describes the intermarriage scandal, but in oblique language
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To get the full picture, read the last chapters of the book of Ezra
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Parshas BeHaaloscha: Who is חוֹבׇב exactly?
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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?
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An Analysis of the Current Extremely Dangerous International Situation?- Are we headed for World War
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Russia, China, Iran, Turkey- all obsessed with recovering glorious pasts, even at the risk of nuclear war
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The Bach: One of the Leading גדולים of the Golden Age of Polish Jewry (16th-17th Centuries)
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Genazym auctioning the first edition, plus a historic תשובה בכתב יד from the ב"ח himself
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Shavuos: Grass, Trees, and Roses. Was there vegetation at Mount sinai?
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Do we put grass nowadays on the floors of our homes and synagogues? And who were the צֹאן וּבָקָר at Sinai?
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Was Hashem originally planning to do מתן תורה at another location?
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Without כְּאִישׁ אֶחָד בְּלֵב אֶחָד, it would not be possible to get a collective binding נַעֲשֶׂה וְנִשְׁמָע
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The Rambam's Philosophical Problems with מַעֲמַד הַר סִינַי
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The problem of trying to give a rational interpretation for what is clearly a mystical event, as Rambam himself admits
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A Renaissance Edition of Azarya de Rossi's Controversial Book - Being Auctioned by Genazym
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PLUS the ONLY surviving copy of the famous חֵרֶם issued by R’ Yosef Caro's בֵּית דִּין. A classic tale in Jewish history
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Hosea tells the Jews not to turn away from Hashem and trust their "allies"
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Those "allies" will leave כלל ישראל to die, like like someone stripped naked and left to die from thirst in the middle of the Sahara Desert
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What was the relationship between the two luchos and the rest of the Torah?
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Why weren't the two tablets given on the occasion of the original shavuos?
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Theodore Herzl, Political Zionism, and the Current Campus Riots - Part 5
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Herzl tries to avoid the fights between the frum and the anti-frum in the fin de siecle
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Yom Yersushalyim: No country recognizes Jerusalem as legally being Israeli territory
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A short history of the Jerusalem issue in international law
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Hereditary Elites vs. Meritocratic Elites (Pirkei Avos, Ch. 6)
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The 48 attributes of a scholar: Does one require all 48, or some of 48?
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Haftarah Bechukosai: Jeremiah (לְפִי הָאַבַּרְבָּנֵאל) discusses the chemistry of הִשְׁתַּדְּלוּת and בִּטָּחוֹן
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The Kingdom of Judah truly believed in the faithfulness of their Egyptian "ally"
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Parshas Bechukosai: The תוכחה was pronounced right after the Ten Commandments
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If Moshe had led them then and there (& not died in Chutz L’Aretz), they would have also conquered & settled Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria!
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The David-Jonathan Friendship: Was it a two-way street?
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Jonathan thought of the public welfare and wanted to avoid a civil war. The narcissistic Amnon threw her out and did not consider what would happen as a result of his actions.
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Herzl and Political Zionism, Pt. 4 - Zionism's Relationship to Marxism and Frum Judaism
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Herzl, Political Zionism, and Campus Riots, Pt. 4
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The ibn Ezra: More on his particular historical context, and the time before the fall
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He left Spain just in time, and translated the Sephardic literature from Arabic to Hebrew. Wrote much, but only his פירוש על התורה ּis of permanent interest
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Lag b'Omer: When did רשב"י write the Zohar?
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Before, during, or after the cave?
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Parshas Behar: The theory that both בְּהַר בְּחֻקּוֹתַי were pronounced in פָּרָשַׁת מִשְׁפָּטִים
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At the time of שבועות, the conquest of Canaan was but weeks away
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Haftarah Behar: Jeremiah and the land deal - Preserving hope among the doomed
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Buying "worthless" real estate demonstrates faith in ultimate victory and the permanent survival of כלל ישראל. It prevents יֵאוּשׁ
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Biden: It's a good thing we have a President who grew up with the JEWISH version of the Holocaust
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1945-1990: The years the Jews owned the Shoah-narrative, and got their account of it accepted by the West. The East was "muzzled"
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R’ Akiva’s Students - When exactly did the 24,000 students die? What was the historical context?
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Trying to make sense of the chronology of the life of Rabbi Akiva and the story of his students
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The Bitter, Non-Frum Opposition to Herzl and His Proposal -Theodore Herzl, Political Zionism, Pt. 3
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The Zionists were the first to assemble (or appear to assemble) representatives of all כלל ישראל to discuss the fate of כלל ישראל and seek a realistic solution
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Shabbos comes about once a week, so if a person is not well-versed in its intricacies, then it is inevitable that transgressions will take place. Here is a solution! KinyanHilchosShabbos.comWorld famous Rosh Yeshiva, HaRav HaGaon Yitzchak Berkovits shlit’a used his vast knowledge to arrange all the Gemaras with the commentators on each area of Hil…
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Haftarah Emor: Who are the people referred to strangely as הַכֹּהֲנִים ַלְּוִיִּי?
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What does the אריז"ל mean when he says that in the future, כהנים will be לויים and vice versa?
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Parshas Emor: The existential struggle against worshipping כּוֹחוֹת הַטֻּמְאָה
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If G-d created טֻמְאָה, why not include it in religious rituals?
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