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Delving Deeper - Parsha & Chassidus
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In today's hectic world, there seem to be so many challenges along the path to an emotionally healthy lifestyle and satisfying relationships. In this show, listen in on conversation between Dr. Tara and Yoni Klestzick and some of the world's top mental health professionals to gain valuable insight and learn from their experiences to construct a healthy emotional framework for you and your loved ones.
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Parshas Lech Lecha: The conquest of Semitic Israel by Hamitic invaders
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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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Haftorah Parsha Noach: The Abandoned Wife Discovers She is not abandoned after all
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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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The Story of Nimrod- Who was he? (Parshas Noach)
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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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The Simchas Torah Massacre in Cracow 1655
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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 History and Meaning of the נִעֲנוּעִים
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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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Where is the Garden of Eden? (Parshas Bereishis)
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Is it far from Israel? Or the very opposite!
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R' Katz speculates on the origins of the שִׂמְחַת בֵּית הַשּׁוֹאֵבָה
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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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The Jonah Story: Some sober thoughts in light of current events
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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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Sair L'Azazel-"Is there a plain meaning?"
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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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Confession on Yom Kippur: Competing Sensibilities
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How Halachic literature contends with the twists and turns of fallible Human Nature
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Yom Kippur and the Oct. 7th Massacres: R' Katz Responds to a Query
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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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Parshas Ha'azinu: The speech of Moshe to the elites (having given up on the masses)
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Guide the masses to the correct interpretation of events. Don't leave it up to them!
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An Analysis of the Current Israeli Invasion of South Lebanon
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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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R' Katz analyzes the current situation in the Middle East
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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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Parshas Nitzavim-VaYelech: Above all, Moshe fears the hypocrites in his audience
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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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Tekiah Teruah Tekiah: Joy, Weeping, Joy: Symbolism in the Ritual
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R' Katz speculates on the עָרוּךְ הַשֻּׁלְחָן and his take on the תְּקִיעוֹת
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Haftarah Parshas Ki Savo - Isaiah paints the Jewish Utopia
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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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Parshas Ki Savo: The Terrible Tochecha - Why is Devarim's worse than VaYikra's?
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Moses is addressing the victorious soldiers of three recent wars
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Parashat Ki Tetze . Rabbi Dovid Katz Chabad West Hampstead.By All Parsha Initiative
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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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