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How he Hasmonean rulers fought their wars and handled the "Bnei Torah Problem" 2,000 years ago
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How come Elisha's servant Gechazi did not believe his master could revive the child?
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Which is stronger in Iranian Universities? Hatred of Israel, or hatred of the Arabs and support of Israel? Some surprising developments
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Abraham is not opposed by the Canaanites because he is a childless nomad...at first...
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R Shimon Sofer, Pt 2: Walking a political tightrope for Galician Jews trapped between Germans, Ukrainians, and Poles
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For the upcoming Genazym auction on November 17, 2024
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R Shimon Sofer (1820-1883), Pt. 1: The complexities of Jewish ethnic politics in Central Europe (Galicia) in the 19th century
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For the upcoming Genazym auction on November 17, 2024
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Abraham, the Semite, is told by G-d to go to Israel, from which the Semites are being driven out and dispossessed by Canaanite invaders
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And The Worm of Jacob - Jewish survival in difficult times
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Didn't Shem and Abraham live in the same place long before Abraham's move to Eretz K'naan?
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R' Katz discusses the newest Genazym auction, featuring (inter alia) the seal the famous Italian Rabbi Yeshaya Bassan (1673-1739)
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Teacher of the famous RMS Luzzatto, as well as leading Italian Posek of the early 18th century. The close bond, despite different personalities, between Rebbe and Talmid
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The Ark was a haven during the Flood, but afterwards G-d orders Noah to exit the Ark
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Was Nimrod the first king in human history?
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R' Shmuel Leib Kauder (1770-1835) Last of the Bohemian Gedolim
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One of those great gedolim you never heard of
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How such massacres were commemorated in the liturgy of Eastern European Jewry
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Parshas V'Zos HaBrachah: G-d offers the Torah to the other nations but they turn down the offer
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What does this mean? Was it an actual historical event? A fascinating interpretation of the שְׁלָ"ה הַקָּדוֹשׁ
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The medieval debate whether it resembles the sign of the cross, and the contemporary significance in light of the current war
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Is it far from Israel? Or the very opposite!
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The current climate and scarcity of water was not the reality in Ancient Israel
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The Original Sukkos: Was it BOTH Clouds of Glory and סֻכּוֹת מַמָּשׁ- first one and then the other?
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Why are women not required to sit in sukkahs?
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Are the Four Minim connected to the Four Exiles? Or to Exile as a phenomenon?
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All Jewish life, including Jews in Israel, is a sukkah-existence, fragile in structure, protected by Providence (עַנְנֵי הַכָּבוֹד)
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We don't want him to be Jewish!
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A Quick History of Israel's Diplomatic Relations (and lack of relations) with Moslem Countries
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Israel's recent progress in this area was one of the triggers of the Oct. 7th Hamas attack
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R' Katz analyzes the significance of the Jonah and Nineveh tale in its historic and mussar context
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Two extremes: a.) Yom Kippur atones without repentance b.) To atone properly, the most extreme penances are required
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The Episode of Elephantine: A Jewish Garrison on the Egyptian-Sudan Border in the Times of Ezra, Nehemiah & Co.
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The remarkable letters that were found by archaeologists. What were Jews doing in the Persian army, anyway?
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How Halachic literature contends with the twists and turns of fallible Human Nature
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"How do we face another Yom Kippur full of forebodings ever since last year?'
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Humans are unique in a.) Brains b.) Speech
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Guide the masses to the correct interpretation of events. Don't leave it up to them!
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The area is full of tunnels, but the IDF has learned tunnel warfare over the course of the past year
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R' Katz speculates on the historical origin of the custom of blowing the shofar to confuse the Satan
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Is it so that the Satan won't prosecute? Or is it to help you have proper concentration during Musaf Shemoneh Esrei?
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The Historical Background of the Dispute Between the Geonim and the Rambam on the Break in the Tradition of What the Teruah is
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The very different biographies of Hai Gaon and Maimonides
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Israel is worried about an attack on the Yomim Tovim (actually, all of us should be awake to this danger)
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Haftarah Nitzavim-VaYelech: The United Nations will Applaud Israel ... in the Messianic Era!
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Until then, a "vengeance-list" is being prepared in Heaven
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Can one control one's thoughts?
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The Ben Ish Chai and Baghdad, Pt. 2: Thinking historically about the Ben Ish Chai and the remarkable Jewish community of Baghdad in the 19th century
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A city of great Torah Learning, but also haskalah, strife, and the challenges of modernity
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R' Katz speculates on the עָרוּךְ הַשֻּׁלְחָן and his take on the תְּקִיעוֹת
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In the Messianic era, antisemitism will cease, the Jews will be on top, and all of mankind will enjoy peace, prosperity, and enlightenment
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The Ben Ish Chai and Baghdad, Pt. 1: Thinking historically about the Ben Ish Chai and the remarkable Jewish community of Baghdad in the 19th century
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A city of great Torah Learning, but also haskalah, strife, and the challenges of modernity
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Moses is addressing the victorious soldiers of three recent wars
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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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R Katz analyzes the evolution of Rosh Hashanah over the millennia into its current universal form
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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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Bittersweet - A Glorious Geulah, but a depressed Jewish People scarred by their sufferings in galus
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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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אֲנִי לְדוֹדִי וְדוֹדִי לִי - Is that בֵּין אָדָם לַמָּקוֹם? Or בֵּין אָדָם לַחֲבֵרוֹ?
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Isaiah foresees a world without terrorism!
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