Episodes

  • R Katz Analyzes the Current Middle East Crisis involving the Druze, Syria, Israel, and the USA

    R Katz Analyzes the Current Middle East Crisis involving the Druze, Syria, Israel, and the USA
    Jul 16 2025

    The Existential Dilemma facing Bibi: Making Peace with Syria, but also bombing Syria to save the Syrian Druze (thereby giving מְנוּחַת הַנֶּפֶשׁ to the Israeli Druze). A very complicated story!
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    46 mins
  • The Influence of R Saadia Gaon on the Rambam and all the other Medieval Jewish Philosophers

    The Influence of R Saadia Gaon on the Rambam and all the other Medieval Jewish Philosophers
    Jul 16 2025

    Many of the ideas in the מוֹרֵה נְבוֹכִים, הַכּוּזָרִי, הַחוֹבוֹת הַלְּבָבוֹת, יַד רמ"ה, הָעִקָּרִים, וְכוּלְהוּ actually were already written in the אֱמוּנוֹת וְדֵעוֹת

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    27 mins
  • Isaac Ochberg of Cape Town (1878-1937): Rescuer of Orphans from World War I

    Isaac Ochberg of Cape Town (1878-1937): Rescuer of Orphans from World War I
    Jul 15 2025

    A South African "Jewish Jew" who went to wartorn Ukraine in 1920, then in the midst of massacres of Jews, and brought 200 Jewish orphans to safety in South Africa
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    34 mins
  • Parshas Pinchas: The Bloody Discrepancies

    Parshas Pinchas: The Bloody Discrepancies
    Jul 14 2025

    Why did the Civil Wars between the Tribes in the Desert degenerate into exterminatory massacres?

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    29 mins
  • Bilam's observation of הֶן עָם לְבָדָד יִשְׁכֹּן and the current phenomenon of Jews being abandoned by their supposed "allies"

    Bilam's observation of הֶן עָם לְבָדָד יִשְׁכֹּן and the current phenomenon of Jews being abandoned by their supposed "allies"
    Jul 10 2025

    So many Jews have deluded themselves that they were building "alliances" only to discover on October 7th that they had been building on sand
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    29 mins
  • What is the Oldest Source for the "Three Weeks"?

    What is the Oldest Source for the "Three Weeks"?
    Jul 9 2025

    Daniel fasts out of consternation at Cyrus' stop-order re: the building of the Second Temple



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    26 mins
  • Haftarah Balak: Will some Jews choose to remain in Chutz L'Eretz in the Messianic Era?

    Haftarah Balak: Will some Jews choose to remain in Chutz L'Eretz in the Messianic Era?
    Jul 8 2025

    Is the Messianic Utopia only for the Jews? Or for all mankind?
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    25 mins
  • Quaker Ger Tzedek: Warder Cresson of Philadelphia and Jerusalem (1798-1861)

    Quaker Ger Tzedek: Warder Cresson of Philadelphia and Jerusalem (1798-1861)
    Jul 8 2025

    The Famous Trial in 1849: Is conversion to Judaism an indication of mental insanity?
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    56 mins