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Did you ever realize the slavery in Egypt commenced shortly before the birth of Moses?
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What is the difference between מִצְרַיִם and בֵּית עֲבָדִים?
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Did the slaves view their plight from within an Egyptian pagan narrative?
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The Jews did not say נַעֲשֶׂה וְנִשְׁמָע until after they were told about the בְּרִית בֵּין הַבְּתָרִים
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The שיטות that one may keep חמץ at the home of a gentile on פסח without selling it
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How the different opinions re: בל יראה among Rishonim reflect different Jewish השקפות on the original Passover
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What were the theological perceptions of Jews on the night of Pesach? Maimonidean? Astrological?
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Rambam vs. שִׁדּוּד הַמַּעֲרָכוֹת
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Haftarah Shabbos HaGadol: Why was it chosen? What does it have to do with Passover?
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Redemption has to be preceded by a great prophet, who will guide the Jews in that turbulent and complex era
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Parshas Metzora: Why Did Tzaraas Cease
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Who won the battle between the Torah and lashon hara?
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The Iran Attack on Israel: Why did Jordan help Israel shoot down the Iranian missiles?
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Jordan & Israel: Publicly the bitterest of enemies, privately close cooperation
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What's with the debates as to how many plagues were there @the Red Sea?
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Did Egypt get the "full business" on the night of Passover, or at the Red Sea?
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Pesach: Why was it necessary to go through the first nine plagues?
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A Dvar Torah from Lincoln's Second Inaugural
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Moses Hess and R’ Yehosef Zechariah Stern on אַהֲבַת יִשְׂרָאֵל וְחִבַּת יִשְׂרָאֵל
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What is the meaning of the phrase "Love is blind" in Judaism?
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Haftarah Tazria: Naaman & Elisha - A Repetition of the Abraham and Pharaoh Story?
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Was he already a leper, or did he get leprosy because he kidnapped the little Jewish girl (Like Hamas!)?
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Parshas Tazria: If the marchers for Hamas were stricken with צרעת, would they change?
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This parsha is a fascinating study in human psychology
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משך חכמה על "בשעה שיש מצה ומרורים (לא הפסח!) מונחים לפניך"
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What if the Cananites (Amorites) had repented at the time of Moses, as Ninveh did later?
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Pesach: The Original Passover, the Plague of Darkness, & the Din of מְנוּיִים
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What if 15 million had left Egypt?
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Italian Jewry and Playing Tennis on Shabbos and Yom Tov
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Famous responsa from R’ Moshe Provenzalo & Leone Modena
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The Arab tactic of demonstrating in front of synagogues in America
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Going after Israel's "support" system. The need for Jewish counter-tactics
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Haftarah HaChodesh: The prophecy of Ezekiel includes crowd and traffic control
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The Temple is a place for both a public worship experience as well as as private one
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Parshas Shmini: A reason for the deaths of Aaron's two sons
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Nadav & Avihu couldn't make the adjustment from halfway-up Sinai to the Mishkan
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מִי הוּא הַ"נָשִׂיא" בְּהַפְטָרַת פָּרָשַׁת הַחֹדֶשׁ?
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Does Ezekiel see the Third Temple as evolving along the historical lines of the Second? Particularly the Hasmonean נָשִׂיא?
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Parshas Shmini: What is the meaning of the statement that Nadav & Avihu were שְׁתוּיֵי יַיִן?
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The Kashrus Laws: The difference between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law
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Haftarah Parah: The Strictly Ceremonial Nature on an Individual Level in Terms of Taharah
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On a national level, purification can come solely through repentance
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Parshas Tzav: The concept of sacrifice in the Temple, as well as in the current war in Gaza
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Confession: 1.) Contrition 2.) Moral clarity!
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An Analysis of the Current State of the Gaza War and Its Fallout, by Rabbi Katz
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Like Hitler, Hamas understands what a powerful weapon is antisemitism, which trumps all other considerations
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R’ Yehuda Brieli of Mantua 17th century -Another Italian גָּדוֹל -צַדִּיק-מַשְׂכִּיל
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Champion of Judaism against Catholicism & Sabbateanism, expert in the classics, and a great פּוֹסֵק
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Purim: Why was it Esther (not Mordechai) who pressured the חכמים to make Purim a holiday?
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Mordecai - member of Sanhedrin and general in the Persian army. Not the typical גדול!
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Parshas VaYikra: The Primarily Educative Nature of the Korbanos
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The meaning of the phrase: the world 's existence depends on the korbanos.
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Haftarah Zachor: Exactly why did Saul spare Agag, after wiping out his people?
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Why is Saul later killed by an Amalekite?
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The Baltimore Background to the Billion Dollar Gift to Einstein Medical School
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What happens when one spouse is Orthodox and the other Reform? An "Old Baltimore" tale
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The Letter of Haman: Its demonization of Jews and ordering their death
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Haman's spinning of the Biblical narrative to make the Jews look bad, just like Hamas propaganda today
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Purim and Parshas VaYikra: What's Up With the Angels, the Korbanos, and Vashti?
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Reading the megillah in a two-tiered fashion ( הַמֶּלֶךְ)
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The Consequences of Jewish Disunity and Irresponsibility During the Current War
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What provoked Schumer's speech? Do Israelis care about the USA and its interests?
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Why is Purim not on the day of the victorious fight, but on the day after?
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R Katz suggests a chronology of the historical development of the acceptance of the holiday of Purim
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R’ Moshe Provenzalo of Renaissance Italy (Mantua)
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Great Italiani gaon, whose rabbinical opponents tried to get him fired by his own בַּעֲלֵי בָּתִּים
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Haftarah Pekudei: Why did Shlomo stash-away his father's gold?
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Why the extra (and indeed omnipresent) cherubs and pictures of cherubs all over the Temple?
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Parshas Pekudei: When is a Mishkan a Full-Blown Mishkan? And When is it Just a Glorified בָּמָה?
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The strange history of the 71 years of הֶתֵּר הַבָּמוֹת
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Recent Trends in Antisemitism in America - An Analysis by R’ Katz
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The bad guys are trying to change PC to say it is ok, indeed correct, to be anti-Semitic.
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The מַחְבֶּרֶת of Menachem Ben Siruk- The New Edition of This Tragic 10th Century classic
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The first real Hebrew dictionary, dissed by jealous rivals, used by Rashi and defended by Rabbenu Tam
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Haftarah VaYakhel: Hiram of Tyre, King Solomon's " Michaelangelo?"
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Solomon's pragmatism in building the Temple: Good move or bad?
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Parshas VaYakhel: Why Make Keruvim After the Fiasco of the Golden Calf?
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The story of the three material objects: The שִׁבְרֵי לוּחוֹת רִאשׁוֹנוֹת, the עֵגֶל הַזָּהָב , and the כְּרוּבִים
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Parshas Ki Sisah: What ever happened to the tablets Moshe shattered?
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What happened to the wooden box Moshe constructed for those three months?
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The 1555 Edition of HaChasid Yavetz on Pirkei Avos Being Offered by Genazym
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R’ Yosef Yaabetz (1440-1508), premier Sefardi דרשן who tries to understand the Expulsion from Spain in 1492
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The Confusing Story of 12 Adar - יוֹם טְרָיׇנוּס
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What was the real story of the great Jewish revolt against Trajan? Who exactly were the הֲרוּגֵי לֹד?
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Haftarah Ki Sisah: Elijah "Twists the Arm of G-d" (כִּבְיָכוֹל)
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Some Prophets are "messenger boys," others are subordinates who display initiative
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Sefer Shalsheles HaKabbalah, the Renaissance Classic, is Being Offered in the New Genazym Catalog
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Famously controversial chronicle, dissed by the historians, but beloved by the masses
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Parshas Ki Sisah: What exactly was the אִסּוּר of making an image of Hashem?
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Why did Moshe segregate the עֵרֶב רַב at מַתַּן תּוֹרָה? What were the consequences?
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Haftarah Tetzaveh: The Building of the Second Temple
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Why did the Jews build it according to the dimensions of נבואת יחזקאל הנביא ? Why does the Altar have to be in an exact spot, with no deviation?
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Historic Handwritten Letter by R’ Chaim Brisker from 1909 Auctioned by Genazym
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R’ Katz explains the context of this letter and the elections to the Russian government's " Rabbinical Commission " to which R Chaim was indeed elected
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Parshas Tetzaveh: Use of the Spoils of Egypt for the Mishkan
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The Netziv's theory of the אָרוֹן and the Menorah
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Mantua Zohar, Pt. 3. The "Litvish"Defense by R’ Moshe Provençal of Mantua
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1.) Private notes 2.) Manuscript given out to copy 3.) Printed books
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