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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
Hoshana Rabbah /Shemini Atzeres - Bringing Hashem Down to Earth
In this shiur, delivered in Yerushalayim at the Ba'er Miriam Simchas Beis HaShoeva, Rav Burg explains (based on a Sicha from the Shvilei Pinchas) the inner…
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Succos - When The Ushpizin Sit With Us In Our Pain
In this shiur, delivered via zoom to the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg explores the deeper dimension of the Ushpizin in these chaotic times. When the Ushpizin share…
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Aseres Yemei Teshuva - Making Meaningful and Lasting Change
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains (based on a Torah from the Tzemach Tzedek) how we can make meaningful and lasting change. Only…
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Aseres Yemei Teshuva / Yom Kippur - The Symmetry of Teshuva
In this shiur, delivered in Darchei Binah, Rav Burg explains Reb Zusias five aspects of Teshuva and the inner symmetry of Teshuva. To realign with Hashem we…
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Vayelech - The Torah is NOT in Heaven
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains (based on a Sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe) how Hashem relates to us through various channels…
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Nitzavim / Rosh Hashanah - The Antidote to Fear: A Deep Sense of Belonging
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains how Moshe Rabbeinu addresses the fears of Klal Yisrael after they heard the Klalos. When we realize…
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Rosh Hashanah / Yom Kippur - I'm Sorry, Can We Go Back to the Way Things Were?
In this shiur, delivered in the Lubat home in Neve Shamir, Rav Burg explains the inner nature of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We don't just want Hashem to…
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Ki Tavo - True Confessions
In this shiur, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains how Vidui Maaser is the true confession. Only when we know our own greatness can we…
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Ki Tavo - Grateful For The Dream, Grateful For The Reality
In this shiur, the first shiur of the year in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the Machlokes as to when we begin to be obligated in the Mitzvah of Bikkurim…
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Ki Tavo - Building a Personal Relationship With Hashem
In this shiur, the first shiur of the year in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains how Klal Yisrael became a nation on the day that they expressed their frustration…
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Ki Teitzei / Elul - Removing the Garments of Captivity
In this shiur, delivered in Mevaseret at the first Mishmar of the year, Rav Burg speaks about Teshuva not as an accounting of our sins but as crying out for a…
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Eikev - Rebuilding The Third Beis HaMikdash With Our Shuls And Our Yeshivas
In this short shiur, based on a Torah from the Shvilei Pinchas, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between Yaakov Avinu and the Beis HaMikdash. Through our…
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Shabbos Nachamu - Golus As An Expression of Unconditional Love
In this shiur, delivered at the final Mishmar of NCSY Kollel, Rav Burg explains (based on a Torah from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l) the inner nature of Golus…
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Tisha B'Av - Searching for the Soul of Destruction
In this shiur, delivered worldwide On Tisha B'Av to the Chizzuk Mission, Rav Burg explores the relationship between Shlomo HaMelech, Yirmiyahu and Moshe…
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Tisha B'Av - From Walls That Protect Us To Walls To Walls That Keep Us Imprisoned
In this shiur, delivered on Tisha B'Av in NCSY Kollel, Rav Burg explains the nature of walls. Walls ought designed to protect our dignity. But when we live…
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Devarim / Tisha B'Av - The Seventy Languages of Finding God Everywhere
In this shiur, delivered in NCSY Kollel (Mishmar), Rav Burg explains how Torah transformed Moshe Rabbeinu's ability to speak. Specifically before Tisha B'Av we…
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Matos / Masei - Having the Hard Conversations to Bring Mashiach
In this shiur, delivered at Mishmar in NCSY Kollel, Rav Burg explains how the final story of Sefer Bamidbar is the climax of the story of how brothers and…
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Pinchas - The Vulnerability of Desire
In this shiur, delivered on NCSY Kollel during Mishmar, Rav Burg explains how Hashem calls out to us through our desires. When we know our desires we know our…
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Three weeks / Shiva Asar B'Tammuz - The Process of Destroying the Beis HaMikdash
In this shiur, delivered in Neve Shamir, Rav Burg explains the inner dimension of the five events that occurred on Shiva Asar B'Tammuz and how each event is…
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Balak - The Transformation We Need To Bring Mashiach
In this shiur, delivered in NCSY Michlelet, Rav Burg explains why of all people, it is Bilaam HaRasha who transmits the prophecy about the coming of Mashiach…
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Chukas - Making Meaningful and Lasting Change
In this shiur, delivered to NCSY Kollel for the first Mishmar of the summer, Rav Burg explains how we can make meaning and lasting changes in our lives. When…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Shavuos - Reframing Our Relationship With Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in the Feder home in Lawrence, Rav Burg discusses (based on a Torah from the Nesivos Shalom and from the Kedushas Levi) the inner…
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Shavuos - Ladies First (A Lesson in Raising Children)
In this shiur, delivered at the first ever Chizzuk Mission shiur in Los Angeles, Rav Burg discusses why the Torah was given first to women and then afterwards…
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Shavuos - Restoring Hashem's Name In This World
In this shiur, delivered in the Valley in Los Angeles, Rav Burg discusses the inner nature of the Mitzvah of Yibum. Our responsibility in this world is to…
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Shavuos - The Vulnerability of Change
In this shiur, delivered to the Chizzuk Mission on zoom, Rav Burg explores the true nature of Torah and why the nations of the world were afraid to accept the…
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Behar - Accepting the Torah With Humility and Pride
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains the paradox of accepting the Torah with both humility and pride. The Torah was given on the smallest…
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Conversations - Episode 2 - Healthy Attachment, Educating Rebellious Children and More...
On the second episode of “Conversations” in Yeshivat Mevaseret, Akiva Schanzer and Eli Schuckman sat down with Rav Burg to discuss healthy attachment within a…
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Behar - Heter Iska: Building a Relationship With Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains (based on a Sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe) the inner nature of a Heter Iska. As mere mortals we…
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Behar - Shemita and Yovel: A Rectification of Kayin and Hevel
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah (last shiur of the year), Rav Burg explains how Shemita and Yovel rectify the sin of Kayin and Hevel. As one journeys…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Shavuos - Kavod HaTorah
In this shiur, delivered in Darchei Binah, Rav Burg explains how the nature of Torah is that it changes us. Only through Torah can we move from animal to Godly…
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Emor - Complete Submission to Hashem
In this shiur, the final shiur of the year in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explores (based on a sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe) why the Eved Canaani is able to eat…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Conversations - Episode 1 - Hope, Reality and more...
On the first episode of “Conversations” in Yeshivat Mevaseret, Zev Bosin, Akiva Schanzer, Eli Schuckman sat down with Rav Burg to discuss a variety of topics…
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Emor - Taking Responsibility For Every Jew
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains (based on a shiur from Rav Moshe Weinberger shlit"a) the inner nature of a Kohen and how we, as a…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Emor / Pesach / Sefiras HaOmer / Shavuos - Transforming From Animal Into Godly
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains (based on a Sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l) the three step process of moving from Pesach…
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Kedoshim - The Patience to be Creative
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning behind the Halacha of Orla. Adam HaRishon did not wait to eat from the Eitz HaDaas…
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Kedoshim - Making Space for Another
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the inner nature of what it means to live a life of Kedusha and why ultimately, while we can reach…
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Kedoshim / Pesach / Sefiras HaOmer - Breaking the Cycle of Exile
In this exceptionally deep shiur delivered in Tomer Devorah Rav Burg explores the nature of sibling rivalry as it relates to Galus. From Yaakov and Eisav to…
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Unlocking Growth and Embracing Vulnerability - Israel Gap Year B'Iyun Podcast
In this podcast interview with Rabbi Avi Proctor, Rav Burg explores the importance of vulnerability. Discover the value of creating a space where people feel…
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Pesach - Collecting the Sparks
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam (over Bein HaZmanim), Rav Burg explains the inner nature of the rechush gadol (great wealth) that Avraham Avinu was…
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Pesach - An IFS Approach to the Four Sons
In this shiur, delivered in the Lubat home in Neve Shamir, Rav Burg explains why the Baal Haggadah counted each son with the number one (as Moshe Rabbeinu…
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Shemini - Humbly Creating Space For Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains (based on a piece from Rav Ahron Lopiansky shlit"a) why Ahron HaKohen was afraid to draw close to the…
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Shemini - Living in the Present
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the connection between Nadav and Avihu being intoxicated and bringing an Eish Zara, a strange fire…
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Shemini - Jealousy, Resentment, Story Telling and Fear
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between the inauguration of the Mishkan, the Cheit HaEigel and the selling of…
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Defining Dignity
In this shiur (plus questions and answers), Rav and Rebbetzin Burg explain the nature of dignity and how we can lead more dignified lives.
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Tzav - Anchored in the Past, Living in the Present
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the Terumas Hadeshen and the Hotza’as Hadeshen. The Terumas Hadeshen reminds…
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Tzav - Keeping Your Fire Aflame
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains why although the Aish on the Mizbeach comes from Hashem, the Kohen had to light the fire in the…
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Purim - Letting Go Of The Known
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains why: 1. We are not Yotzei when we read the Megillah backwards. 2. We are obligated to drink until we…
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Vayikra - Korbanos: Giving the Gift of Ourselves to Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains (based on a shiur from Rav Ahron Lopiansky shlit"a) the inner nature of a Korban. A Korban is not a…
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Purim - The Anxiety and Faith of Tomorrow
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores our battle with Amalek. Purim is the Yom Tov that remains even after Yemos HaMashiach. Amalek is…
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Purim - Sleeping Through Our Relationship With Hashem
In this shiur, delivered to the Chizzuk Mission in Aish HaTorah, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between sleeping through our performance of the Mitzvos…
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Pikudei - The Power of Desire
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains how through our desire we discover hidden talents within ourselves. When we have desire Hashem…
- Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Pikudei - Accounting for the Unaccounted Jews
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav explains the missing 1775 shekalim from the Mishkan. The Mishkan is meant to be a bridge between the spiritual…
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Adar: Increasing Joy - Finding Simcha In Pain
In this shiur, delivered in Aish HaTorah to the Chizzuk Mission, Rav Burg explores how we can increase joy even in times of great tragedy. Rav Akiva woke up…
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Vayakhel - Inspiring Those Who Feel Unworthy
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains why Betzalel and Ohaliav were equal with regards to building the Mishkan. Klal Yisrael required divine…
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Vayakhel - Uniting Klal Yisrael Through Shnayim Mikra V'echad Targum
In honor of the Mevaseret Talmidim who took upon themselves to learn Shnayim Mikra V'echad Targum this year, Rav Glanz and Rav Burg Fabrenged in Mevaseret…
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Vayakhel - Rupture and Repair
In this week's Parsha the Torah repeats the building of the Mishkan after the Cheit Haeigel. In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the…
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Vayakhel - Living a Real and Ideal Life
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains why the Torah spends 400 Pesukim detailing both how the Mishkan was meant to be made and how it…
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Ki Tisa - Inside and Outside Torah
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains why the Luchos could be read from the inside and the outside. There are two ways of relating to…
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Ki Tisa - A Nation on Fire
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores why although the world is a fragmented place but we crave wholeness. Only when we balance the…
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Tetzaveh - Ringing the Bells of Greatness
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains (based on a piece from Rav Shaul Alter shlit"a) the inner connection between the three times it…