Episodes

  • Haftarah VaYeitzei: Hoshea 11:7, an extremely difficult verse to parse
    Nov 27 2025

    Sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Mordy Gardyn 'in honor of my parents may they have אֲרִיכַת יָמִים וְשָׁנִים

    and sponsored by "a member of the local fan club"🙂


    How can you get a unified response to crisis when the theological causes are not clear? וְאֶל עַל יִקְרָאֻהוּ יַחַד לֹא יְרוֹמֵםhttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast

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    30 mins
  • What's with this Israeli preoccupation with the bodies of their dead, killed by Hamas & Co.?
    Nov 27 2025

    Why does Israel release live Arab terrorists (who admit they will kill again if they can!) in exchange for the corpses of Jewish dead? Is this a Halachic thing? A Zionist thing?

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    32 mins
  • Parshas VaYeitzei: What is Yaakov afraid of?
    Nov 25 2025

    Let's examine the image of the ladder closely

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    31 mins
  • Some thoughts on Self-Hating and Self-Denying Jews in the current antisemitic climate, now and a century ago
    Nov 25 2025

    When Arabs slaughtered (literally) the Jew in Hebron in 1929, the Communist Party said it was the fault of the Jews and the Arabs were in the right. And Jewish Communists sided with the Party!

    Similar things are happening today ...


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    33 mins
  • Answering a listener's query re: allegorical interpretations of Biblical stories in ultra-orthodox sources
    Nov 24 2025

    If the Hebrew language pre-existed the physical world, then it is not subject to the rules of linguistic evolution, and if is constitutive of the physical world and its history, then the non physical interpretations are NOT at the expense of the literal meanings.


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    27 mins
  • Today's Posthumous Promotion of Alfred Dreyfus to General in the French Army
    Nov 20 2025

    Was Alfred Dreyfus really a self-hating or self-denying assimilated Jew?

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    47 mins
  • Haftarah Toldos: Quantity vs. quality in the performance of mitzvos. An age-old problem. Sigh
    Nov 19 2025

    "אֶת עֵקֶב אָהַבְתִּי וְאֶת עֵשָׂו שָׂנֵאתִי" - ?Why



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    26 mins
  • Manasseh Ben Israel's (very recently translated from the Latin) "Thirty Problem Concerning מַעֲשֵׂה בְּרֵאשִׁית"
    Nov 18 2025

    Giving the Jewish POV of Genesis to the world of European Intellectuals in the 17th Century

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    28 mins