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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
Vayakhel - Making Space for the Copper Jews
In this shiur, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar "Unplugged" (last Mishmar of the Zman), Rav Burg shared a Vort from the Noviminsker Rebbe zt"l who explains why…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Vayakhel - Turning the Week Into Shabbos
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between Shabbos and the Mishkan. Our responsibility is to build a vessel and…
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Purim - Living Life on Fire
In this shiur, delivered in Aish Gesher for Women, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of why Esther HaMalka insisted that Purim be established as a Yom Tov…
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Purim - Celebrating Purim As The Slaves of Achashverosh (While Still in the Middle of War)
In this shiur, delivered Motzai Shabbos in the Lubat home in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning Ora, Simcha, Sasson and Yikar and…
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Purim / Hilula of Moshe Rabbeinu - The Secret of Jewish Survival
In this shmooze, delivered at the pre-Purim / Hilula of Moshe Rabbeinu Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the significance of the fact that Haman rejoiced…
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Tetzaveh - Hashem Wants To Hear From You!
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the noise that the Kohen Gadol's clothing makes upon entering the Beis HaMikdash…
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Tetzaveh - Discovering the Spark of Moshe Rabbeinu in Ourselves
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains (based on a Sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe) the inner meaning of why Moshe Rabbeinu's name is…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Purim - Discovering Our Light Within The Darkness
In this shiur, delivered in Aish HaTorah to the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the halachos of how we read the Megillah, how we roll…
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Hineini - Standing Ready To Do The Impossible
In this shiur, delivered to Darchei Binah on the occasion of their 30th day of being social media free, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the word…
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Terumah - Transforming The World One Donation At A Time
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains why this Parsha is named Terumah and not Mishkan. To make a lasting and meaningful change in this…
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Terumah - When We Hate the Ones We Love
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the Keruvim standing in an intimate embrace as the Beis HaMikdash is being…
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Terumah - Discovering the Essence in Every Mitzvah
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains (based on the Kedushas Levi) why the Aron containing the Luchos is mentioned twice and why the rods…
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Purim - Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Times
In this shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission in Aish HaTorah in Yerushalayim, Rav Burg explores the inner essence of antisemitism and how we claim our Jewish…
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Mishpatim - A Response to the Latest Evil of Hamas
In this shiur, delivered at the Ramada Hotel to the Daily Giving Learn a Thon, Rav Burg explains how Klal Yisrael is in its essence a nation of Chesed while…
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Mishpatim - If It Doesn't Include Chesed, It's Not Torah
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains why in the middle of Kabbalas HaTorah the Torah "interrupts" the narrative to give the civil laws…
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Yisro - Communicating The Essence
In this shiur, delivered at Stern College, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between being misameach a Chasan and a Kallah and meriting the Five Kolos of…
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Raising Children in Turbulent Times
In this shiur, delivered to the Nshei of KBH in North Woodmere, Rav Burg explores the nature of raising children to feel securely attached.
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Shevat - Finding Unity in Diversity
In this shiur, delivered in the Hirsch home in Los Angeles to the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg explains why for the last month kf Moshe Rabbeinu's life, Chodesh…
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Tu B'Shvat - Soul Actualization
In this shiur, delivered at the Mashiach home in Chicago, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between man being described as a tree in the field and the…
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Beshalach - Remembering Amalek
In this shiur, delivered in the Valley in Los Angeles, Rav Burg explains the inner workings of how we can leave our personal Mitzrayim and yet still be stuck…
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Bo - The Restoration of Hope
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains why Klal Yisrael prostrated themselves after hearing the Mitzvah of Korban Pesach. Only when Klal…
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Bo - Slapping Pharaoh in the Face
In this shiur, delivered in Mevaseret, Rav Burg explains why only after Makkas Choshech did Pharaoh and Moshe become angry with one another. What was the value…
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Bo - Midnight Madness: The Revelation of the Essence
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains (based on a Sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l) why Makkas Bechoros specifically happens at…
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Vaeira - The Wisdom of the Heart
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains (based on a Torah from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l) why Rashi reminds us that Avraham, Yitzchak and…
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Vaeira - Introducing Our Ego to Hashem
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains why Moshe Rabbeinu spoke to to Pharoah despite the fact that Pharaoh could not understand…
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Shemos - Tracht Gut!
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains (based on a Sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l) why the Torah tells us that Moshe Rabbeinu was…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Shemos - Feeling The Pain of Another Jew
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between the death of Yosef HaTzaddik and the Bracha of Moshe Rabbeinu…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Shnayim Mikra: Falling in Love with Torah
In this shmooze, delivered in Mevaseret at the Shnayim Mikra Melava Malka Siyum, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of why we say the pesukim not just once…
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Asarah B'Teves - A Day That Hangs in the Balance
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains why Asarah B'Teves would obligate us to fast even on Shabbos, the connection between Asarah…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Vayechi - Feeling the Pain of Another
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains (based on a Torah from Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky zt"l) why Shimon and Levi were assigned to become the…
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Vayechi - Finding Our Emotional Footing in Exile
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the meaning of the fact that Parshas Vayechi is setumah (a closed parsha). The eyes and heart of…
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Vayigash - A Yeshiva for the Imperfect
In this shiur, delivered at the Almuni Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains why it was specifically Yehuda who was sent to establish a Yeshiva in Goshen. While…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Vayigash - Finding Faith in Exile
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains how the purpose of going into Golus was to bridge the gap between the Avos and Klal Yisrael in…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Chanukah - The Beauty of Hod: Substance over Surface
In this shiur, delivered at the Michlala Chanukah "Culture" Yom Iyun, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the word Hod. There is surface beauty that…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Miketz - Standing in Submission to Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explores the difference between the dreams of Pharoah and the dreams of Yaakov Avinu. Pharaoh dreams that he…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Yud Tes Kislev / Vayeishev - Hashem is Obsessed With You
In this shiur, delivered at the Mevaseret Yud Tes Kislev Fabrengen, Rav Burg explains how Hashem writes down all of our Mitzvos and has incredible nachas from…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Vayeishev - Making Meaningful and Lasting Change
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the symmetry of the story of Yosef HaTzaddik. When Yosef truly examines his life and does the real…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Vayeishev - Uniting the Shevatim
In this shiur, delivered in Shenk in Washington Heights, Rav Burg explains the inner nature of Yosef’s dreams. Far from placing himself at the center of the…
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Chanukah - Dreaming in Exile
In this shiur, delivered in the Feder home, Rav Burg explores the inner nature of dreams. In our dreams we go beyond our intellectual faculties and touch the…
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Chanukah - Shifting Perspective: Seeing Through the Darkness
In this shiur, delivered in the Stahler home for the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg explains why Chanukah is identified with the faculty of sight and how we are…
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Vayishlach - Recovering From Lavan, Struggling With Eisav
In this shiur, delivered at the Young Israel of New Rochelle Mishmar, Rav Burg explores Yaakov Avinu's psychological state after surviving Lavan and how he…
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Vayishlach - Raising Children in Hatred
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the difference between how Eisav raises his children in resentment and Yosef raises his children to…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Dating and Marriage From A Deep Place of Self
In this shiur, delivered in MMY, Rav Burg explains the definition of marriage, the definition of self and how we date and get married from a deep place of self.
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Vayeitzei - Discovering Your Voice in Exile
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the fact that Yaakov slept on Har HaMoriah and did not learn Torah and…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Vayeitzei - The Secret of the Terpahim: Revealing that which is Concealed
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the inner nature of the Terpahim and why Rachel stole them from Lavan. Rav Burg explains that the…
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Vayeitzei - Davening in the Darkness
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between Yaakov Avinu skipping the Beis HaMikdash and returning to it through…
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Rosh Chodesh Kislev - The Essence of Darkness
In this shiur, delivered in the Lubat home in RBS, Rav Burg explains the darkness of Yavan. When man believes that only that which can be explained in a…
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Thanksgiving - The Unity of Gratitude
In this shmooze, delivered at the Mevaseret Thanksgiving Fabrengen, Rav Burg explains how gratitude unites every aspect of our being.
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Toldos - Am I a Fraud?
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains how Rivka was confused by her dual nature. On the one hand she had a part of her that was drawn to…
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Toldos - Impact From the Inside
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the difference between the way that Avraham engaged with the world and the way Yitzchak engaged…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Chayei Sarah - Letting Go Of Who You Were To Discover Who You Truly Are
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains how Avraham Avinu ensured that Yitzchak married a girl who was willing to leave it all behind in…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Vayera - Unifying the Duality of Our Lives
In this shiur, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains how Malachim have a single minded focus. Totally present with whatever they are doing. Human…
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Vayera - Dare to Love
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the Haftorah that deals with the Isha Shunamis who did not ask Elisha for a bracha to have…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Vayera - Making the Ultimate Sacrifice
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains (based on a Sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l) the true nature of Mesiras Nefesh. Anyone can…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Lech Lecha - From Soulfulness to Reality
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains how living from a deep place of soulfulness creates our reality. Hagar received messages from four…
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The Rise of Malchus: Exploring the Role of the Feminine in the Times of Mashiach
In this shiur, delivered on zoom for oravsimcha, Rav Burg explains the Chasidic approach to the role of Malchus. On the one hand Malchus is a Mekabel…
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Noach - Olive Trees and Fresh Leaves
In this shiur, delivered at Thursday night Mishmar in Mevaseret, Rav Burg explains (based on a sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe) how Noach knew that the waters…
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Noach - Davening People Into Greatness
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains how Noach failed to help even one person do Teshuva because he didn't daven for them. Davening is a…
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Noach - Seeing Only the Good
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains why we praise the Tzaddikim when given the opportunity and why Shem and Yafes did not look at…
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Simchas Torah - Will We Ever Dance Again
In this shiur, delivered at the Vayichan program in Yeshivat HaKotel, Rav Burg explains how we can possibly dance and be joyful during Simchas Torah this year…