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Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Shiurim and Divrei Chizzuk from our Mashpia Rav Mordechai Burg
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- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Toldos - Madly in Love With Eisav
In this shmooze, delivered at a Melava Malka Fabrengen in the Kornwasser home, Rav Burg explains how Yitzchak and Rivka loved Eisav as only a parent could. In…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Chayei Sarah - Beyond Space
In this shiur, delivered in Cafe Demi in Teaneck, Rav Burg explains the inner reason that Eliezer Eved Avraham was zocheh to have kefitzas haderech on his…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Chayei Sarah -Three Fundamental Lessons in Marriage
In this shiur, delivered in Stern, Rav Burg explains the wisdom of the Bracha that Lavan gave to Rivka and why even today that Bracha is given to a Kallah at…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Vayera - When The Change Seems Impossible
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the story of Avraham, Sarah and the Malachim as a lesson in how we can make changes that seem…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Vayera - Glass Houses
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains how judgementalism comes from our belief system about ourselves.
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Lech Lecha - The Secret Kedusha of Yishmael
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of Avraham's bracha to Yishmael and how Reish Lakish represents the Nitzotz of…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Lech Lecha - Discovering Hashem Through Chesed
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains how Avraham discovers Hashem by staring unflichingly into the chaos and choosing to bring…
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Lech Lecha - The Journey Of The Soul
In this shiur, delivered in Los Angeles, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the story of Avraham and Sarah's journey first to Eretz Canaan and ultimately…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Noach - The Stories We Tell About Ourselves Become The Stories We Tell About Another
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains why we would consider Noach a "nothing" when the Torah describes him as a Tzaddik. We…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Noach - Staying Whole In A Fragmented World
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the psychology of the Dor HaMabul and how Noach teaches us how stay in self when everything around…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
🚨MUST LISTEN🚨 - The Next Phase Of The War: Transitioning Back Home
In this very raw and real conversation, Rav Burg speaks with a close Talmid who has spent the last two years at war. They explore his various experiences, the…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Bereishis - Stop Pretending and Start Living
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the story of Kayin and Hevel. We can choose to take responsibility for our relationships or we can…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Bereishis - The Beauty of the Light
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the light of creation. Sometimes what we can see makes us distant from the…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Hoshana Rabbah - Finding Life in the Shade of Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Yeshivat HaKotel on Hoshana Rabbah, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of seeing our shadow on Hoshana Rabbah in light of the…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Yom Kippur - You Are Innocent!
In this shiur, delivered in RBS to BMB, Rav Burg explains why Yom Kippur is a day of incredible Simcha. Even the holiest person, in the holiest place, at the…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Rosh Hashana - Screaming HaMelech When It Hurts
In this shiur, delivered in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Rav Burg explains how we are meant tkto find Hashem in the most painful moments of our lives.
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Nitzavim - Achieving the Impossible
In this inaugural shiur in Tomer Devorah Rav Burg explains how the Torah may in fact be in the Heavens and if it were we could ascend to the Heavens to learn…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Rosh Hashana - Crowning Hashem With Authenticity
In this shiur, delivered at Aish Gesher for Women, Rav Burg explains what it means to stand before Hashem as our simple and authentic essence on Rosh Hashana.
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Rosh Hashana - The Shofar Awakens Our Hearts
In this shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission via zoom, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the birth of Chava and how the Shofar rectifies the sin of Adam…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Ki Tavo - The Secret of Serving Hashem With Joy
In this inaugural shiur in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains why a failure to serve Hashem with joy results in the curses of the Tochacha.
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Ki Tavo - Building A Connection with Eretz Yisrael
In this shiur, the inaugural shiur of the year in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the connection between Bikkurim and entering into Eretz…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Ki Teitzei - Believe In Your Own Nobility
In thus shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains (based on the Chasam Sofer) why Dovid HaMelech did not understand that Avshaloms coup could…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Shoftim - Finding the Courage to Fight For Your Life
In this shmooze, delivered at the first Mevaseret Mishmar of the year, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the Egla Arufa. When we feel that our life is not…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Parshas Vaeschanan / Shabbos Nachamu - Family Comes First
In this shiur, delivered at the last Mishmar of the summer on NCSY Kollel, Rav Burg explains why Moshe Rabbeinu asked for matnas chinam, why he so longed to…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Tisha B'Av (Kinnah 45) - It's Time to Get Up!
In this short shmooze, Rav Burg explains how we transition from the morning of Tisha B'Av where we sit in Aveilus to the afternoon of Tisha B'Av where we…
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Tisha B'Av - Stare At The Devastation If You Want To Find The Light
In this shmooze, delivered in NCSY Kollel on Tisha B'Av morning, Rav Burg explains that the darkness IS the light but you have to be willing to stare…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Tisha B'Av - Kamtza and Bar Kamtza:The Destruction of the Self
In this shmooze, delivered at NCSY Kollel Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza.
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Matos - Leading A Selfless Life
In this shmooze, delivered at NCSY Kollel Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the missing one thousand soldiers from the pesukim. We are not impoverished, we are…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Pinchas - You are NOT an Egyptian
In this shmooze, delivered at NCSY Kollel Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the Hey and the Yud that were added to the names of the families. We…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Three Weeks - It's Already Good
In this shiur, delivered in Michlelet, Rav Burg addresses how we can live in the duality of our victory over Iran and the tragic loss of Moishy Noll HY"D. It…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Rising Like a Lion - How We Can Respond to the War With Iran
In this shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission on Zoom, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of a lion in Yiddishkeit. We are now being called upon to rise up…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Shelach - Do We Desire or Despise Eretz Yisrael
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains why we must desire Eretz Yisrael and the consequences of despising it. Contempt is the greatest…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Shelach - It's Hashem Home and We Are His Guests
In this shiur, delivered at Yeshivat HaKotel, Rav Burg explains the desire of the Meraglim, the mistake kfof the Maapilim and why adding a Yud to Yehoshua's…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Behaalosecha - Marriage: The Harmony of Polar Opposites
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between the Mitzvos of Mila and Kesuba. It is far easier to cut something or…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Naso - Isha Sotah: the Feminine Discovery of Hashem in this world
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the Isha Sotah and how we are redeemed only when the feminine influence on…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Naso - Building a Vessel of Shalom
In this shmooze, delivered at the final Mevaseret Mishmar of the year, Rav Burg explains the inner the nature of Shalom and how it contains all of the Bracha…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Naso - A Lack of Faith, an Abundance of Control
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the connection between the control that a man exerts over a Kohen and bowhow thaythat controlling…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Shavuos - Taking Responsibility for Being Mekabel the Torah
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between the cutting of the grain and Shavuos. On Shavuos Hashem gives…
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Bamidbar / Shavuos - Raising Awesome Children
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains why Shevet Dan had significantly more people than Shevet Binyamin despite the fact that Dan had…
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Bamidbar - Creativity and Surrender
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the Maamar Chazal that says that Nadav aneand Avihu sinned because they did…
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Bechukosai - Family Can Always Raid the Fridge
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between Ameilus B'Torah and Shemita.
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Bechukosai - Worse Than Anger, Apathy
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains why the ultimate punishment is not for our anger with Hashem but with our apathy.
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Behar - Robbing the Poor of their Dignity (Say Good Morning!)
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains why when we fail to return someone's greeting we are robbing them of their dignity and sending them…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Shavuos - You're Not Broken
In this shiur, delivered in Aish HaTorah to the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of Matan Torah. At Matan Torah there was no echo because…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Lag Ba’Omer - The Secret of Beginning Again
In this shmooze, delivered at the joint Mevaseret/Shaalvim Lag Ba’Omer event, Rav Burg explains how Rav Akiva was able to begin again even after he lost 24000…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Emor/Shavuos - When We Feel So Distant From Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the Kohen Baal Mum. Sometimes we feel like a Kohen, chosen for a greater mission…
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Emor - Making Space In Yourself For Another
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the true definition of love. When Hashem created the world, He pulled Himself back to create space…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Sefiras HaOmer - The Inner Essence of Kavod
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of Kavod. Kavod does not mean approval, recognition, appreciation or honor. On…
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Tazria-Metzora: Seeing The Complete Person And All Of Their Beauty
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg examines many of the halachos of the Metzora and explains the inner nature of each one. When we take a…
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Sefiras HaOmer: Finding Menucha in Chaotic Times
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of Sefiras HaOmer and the connection to Shabbos. Only when we find…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Tazria-Metzora: Not Just Being But Becoming Tahor
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the Niddah cycle. The halacha of the mother who gives birth to a baby boy and…
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Shemini - When We Are Merciful To The Cruel: Creating Healthy Boundaries
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explores the inner nature of the Racham bird. In today's day and age it is popular to put things in…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Shemini - Seeing the Godliness in Ourselves Even When We Have Stumbled
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explores three different Torah’s around the halachos of Kashrus in animals. The Kli Yakar explains…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Shemini - Are We Serving Hashem or Serving Ourselves?
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains the inner nature of the sin of Nadav and Avihu. What does it mean that they were drunk? Why is Ahron…
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Pesach - Mashiach: Bnei Ephraim Paves the Way
In this shiur, Rav Burg explains (based on a Torah from the Shvilei Pinchas) the secret of the Bnei Ephraim leaving Mitzrayim 30 years too early. What was…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Pesach - Ha Lachma Anya - This Is The Bread of Chesed
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam on Erev Pesach, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of Ha Lachma Anya. Only through pure Chesed will Klal Yisrael…
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Vayikra - Drawing Close to Hashem in the Physical World
In this shiur Rav Burg explains the deeper meaning of the small Aleph at the beginning of Vayikra. When we humble ourselves and the world then we reveal the…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Pesach - Restoring Dignity and Responsibility
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains why Hashem wanted Klal Yisrael to avoid the Pelishtim as they left Mitzrayim, why the first…
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Pekudei - Building a Relationship with Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg uses several different aspects of the Mishkan to explore how we can build a relationship with Hashem.
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Pesach - The Birth of a Nation
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the deeper meaning of Yetzias Mitzrayim. More than just Hashem overpowering Pharaoh, Hashem took…