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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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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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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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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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