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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
Tetzaveh - Illuminating the World With Oneness
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains why Moshe Rabbeinu's name is not mentioned specifically in this weeks Parsha. Moshe Rabbeinu…
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Terumah - Entering the Inner Sanctum
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explores (based on a piece from Rav Moshe Weinberger) how Yiras Shomayim is the outer sanctum and Torah is the…
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Terumah - Building a Relationship with Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains how the building of the Mishkan represents three stages in the development of our relationship…
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Mishpatim - The Prohibition of Milk and Meat: Creating Healthy Boundaries
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfman's, Rav Burg explains (based on a sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe) why Shaatnez is sometimes permitted, why Kilyaim is…
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Mishpatim - Jews that Sparkle
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains why Parshas Mishpatim, with all of its intricate legal details, follows the giving of the Torah at…
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Mishpatim - Nezikin: A Journey in History, a Journey towards Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains a very sophisticated concept from the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The three gates of Nezikin (Babba Kamma…
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Yisro - On Eagles Wings
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg shares a Torah from Rav Moshe Weinberger shlit"a on what it means that Hashem took us out of Mitzrayim on…
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Yisro - Restoring the Radiance of Klal Yisrael
In this shiur, delivered at Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains how before Klal Yisrael could receive the Torah they needed to be restored to their glory. Only…
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Yisro - Insiders and Outsiders
The Medrash tells us that Yisro added on a chapter to the Torah that otherwise would not have been taught. How could this be so? In this shiur, based on a…
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Beshalach - When Pharaoh Converts To Judaism
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explores three dimensions to the story of Pharaoh at the Yam Suf. 1. The simple explanation that Pharaoh was…
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Beshalach - The Sea Splits For Those Who Expect The Miraculous
In this shiur, delivered at Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains how the miraculous only occurs for those who see themselves as worthy of a miracle. Klal Yisrael at…
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Beshalach / Tu B'Shvat - Resurrecting the Hopeless
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the inner connection between Beshalach and Tu B'Shvat. The Navi Yechezkel spoke about three levels…
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Bo - Pharaoh vs Moshe: Who Will Leave Mitzrayim
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the Machlokes between Pharaoh and Moshe as to who will leave Mitzrayim. The Pharaohs in our lives…
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Bo - Analyzing the Three Sons
Three of the four sons in the Haggadah are mentioned in Parshas Bo. In this shiur, delivered at the Hakshiva Bnei Aliyah program, Rav Burg explores the three…
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Rosh Chodesh Shvat / Tu B'Shvat - Potential and Becoming
In this shiur, delivered to Aish Gesher for Women on their Yom Iyun for fulfilling your potential, Rav Burg explores the Machlokes between Beis Shammai and…
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Vaeira - Four Steps To Leaving Your Personal Mitzrayim
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the four stages of leaving Mitzrayim and why we drink four cups of wine on Pesach. When we…
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Hashkafa - To Live is to Give
In this shiur, delivered to the Shana Bet of Sharfmans, Rav Burg explores an idea from the Alter Rebbe regarding how we receive our life force. Life belongs to…
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Shemos - Yosef HaTzaddik: Authentic Through and Through
In this shiur, the final shiur delivered to the Shana Bet of Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains (based on a piece from Rav Wolbe zt"l) why Yosef HaTzaddik is…
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Shemos - Identifying As Our Exile
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains (based on a piece from Rav Shaul Alter Shlit"a) how the words Pakod Pakadti are the secret message…
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Vayechi - Putting Someone Else's Needs Before Our Own
In this shiur, delivered at Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains why Yaakov felt the need at this specific time to explain to Yosef why he buried Rachel on the…
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Vayechi - The Journey Towards Mashiach
In this shiur, delivered at the Sorotzkin home in Monsey, Rav Burg explores why Yaakov Avinu wanted to reveal the end of days to his children and why in the…
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Vayigash - Rising Above Our Humanity
In this shiur, delivered at the Feder home in the Five Towns, Rav Burg explores the inner nature of why Yosef HaTzaddik asked everyone to leave the room before…
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Vayigash - Brotherly Love
In this shiur, delivered to Mevaseret alumni at Lander College for Men, Rav Burg explains why Yehuda said that their brother (Yosef) had died. Rashi teaches…
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Vayigash - Compassionate and Effective Mussar
In this shiur, delivered in Stern College, Rav Burg explains how Yehuda approaches Yosef by saying he is like Pharaoh. When we give Mussar (including to…
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Vayigash - The Secret of Exile
In this shiur, delivered in the Valley, Rav Burg explains why Avraham Avinu chose Golus over Gehenom, the inner meaning of the number seventy, why Yocheved was…
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Chanukah / Miketz - The Forgetfulness of Menashe
This shiur, delivered to the Shana Bet of Midreshet Moriah at the Rosenblum home, addresses the inner connection between Menashe and Chanukah. In these final…
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Chanukah - The Feminine Chinuch of Chanukah
In this shiur, delivered to the Shana Bet of Michlala, Rav Burg explains the difference between Chinuch (masculine) and Chanukah (feminine). On Chanukah we…
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Vayeshev - Creating a Loving Space For Our Children
In this shiur, delivered in Ramat Beit Shemesh to the Nshei of Torat Moshe, Rav Burg explores the story of Yosef and his brothers. Children are playing…
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Vayeshev - I May Be Dreaming But I'm Wide Awake
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the differences between the dreams of the Sar HaMashkim and the Sar HaOfim. How did Yosef know…
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Yud Tes Kislev Fabrengen / Vayeshev - Yosef HaTzaddik: Loyal Shepherd of a Wandering Flock
In this Yud Tes Kislev Fabrengen at Yeshivat Shaarei Mevaseret Tzion Rav Burg shares a Torah from the Ruzhiner Rebbe regarding Yosef HaTzaddik sharing evil…
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Vayishlach - The Struggles and the Purity of Yaakov
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains why although Yaakov has his name changed, he continues to be called Yisrael. Though we may find…
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Emunah in Action
This shiur, delivered in Aish HaTorah to the Go Inspire Chizzuk Mission, deals with living a life of Emunah in action. The knowledge that our soul is infinite…
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Vayishlach (Chanukah) - Finding Sparks in the Lowest Places (Deep Shiur!!!)
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the inner connection between the tragic story of Dinah in Shechem and how she extracted the soul…
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Vayeitzei - Developing a Relationship With Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains three dimensions of building a relationship with Hashem. 1. Avraham Avinu - Love - Digging Wells 2…
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Vayeitzei - Yearning for Mashiach
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explained why: 1. Yaakov was attracted to Rachel. 2. Lavan wanted Yaakov to marry Leah first. 3. How Lavan…
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Toldos - Educating Eisav
In this shiur, delivered at Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains the inner nature of the name Yitzchak and why Yitzchak specifically is described as loving Eisav…
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Toldos - Where Teffilah Comes From
In this shiur, delivered at Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains why it was Yitzchak's Teffilah and not Rivka's Teffilah that was answered when she was unable to…
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Chanukah - Falling Upwards
In this shiur, delivered at the Lubat home in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning behind the Machlokes between Beis Shammai and Beis Hillel…
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Chayei Sarah - The Blessings of an Integrity Life
In this shiur, delivered at Sharfmans, Rav Burg gives over an idea from Rav Lopiansky shlit"a that reveals the inner nature of Bracha (blessed) and Arur…
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Chayei Sarah - The Three Lives of Sarah Imeinu
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the three names of Sarah Imeinu, how each one of the names relates to a different Mitzvah. miracle…
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Vayera - Are You A Bread Person Or A Salt Person (Achdus Event - Tomer Devorah and Sharfmans)
In this shiur, delivered at the Achdus Event with Tomer Devorah and Sharfmans, Rav Burg explores why Lots wife turns into salt and why we continue to make it a…
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Vayera - What You Learn When Your Back Is Up Against The Wall
This shmooze, sponsored by Smilesforthekids.com and delivered in Mevaseret, addresses the Kiruv methodology of Avraham Avinu. Why does Avraham Avinu seemingly…
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Lech Lecha - Be Fascinating
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the difference between the generation that built Migdal Bavel and Avraham Avinu. The juxtaposition…
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Achdus Event - (Mevaseret and Aish Gesher) A Torah of Unity
In a tremendous display of Achdus in these difficult times, Mevaseret and Aish Gesher joined together for a morning seder. Rav Burg addressed both Yeshivas in…
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Noach - Finding an Inner Strength Amidst the Flood
This shiur, delivered in Yeshivat HaKotel for the newly formed Acheinu program, explores the nature of the world pre-flood and post-flood. Pre-flood the world…
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Noach - Leaving the Teiva, Returning to the Vulnerability of Life
Noach would not leave the Teiva until the dove returned with an olive leaf in his mouth. But where would a dove get an olive leaf from? The Medrash provides us…
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Noach - The Teiva as a model for the Jewish home
This shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, explores the specific dimensions and design of the Teiva as a model for what a Jewish home ought to look like.
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Bereishis - Making Light Out of the Darkness
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the first several pesukim of Bereishis in an effort to understand these difficult times that we…
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Chizzuk in These Difficult Times (bonus: how to talk to your children about the war with Hamas)
In this shiur, delivered in the Lubat home in RBS Hey and on zoom, Rav Burg provides Divrei Chizzuk for the community. Focusing in on the spiritual nature of…
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Hoshana Rabbah - To Live in a Pleasant World
This shiur, delivered at the Yeshivat HaKotel Hoshana Rabbah program, begins with three questions: 1. What's the inner nature of Hoshana Rabbah such that it…
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Succos - Enjoy the Process
In this shiur Rav Burg explores the inner essence of the Esrog. In this world there is both process and achievement. In the physical world we only value…
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Teshuva - It All Comes Down To Me
This shiur, delivered in Darchei Binah, explores the story of Rav Elazar ben Dudaya, a man who engaged in a completely hedonistic lifestyle but managed to do…
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Haazinu - Speaking With the Higher Self
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the difference between Dibur and Amira. Sometimes, when speaking to our lower self doesn't work…
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Teshuva - Renewal of our Homes
In this Aseres Yemei Teshuva shiur, delivered at the Chanukas HaBayis of the Lubat family in RBS, Rav Burg explains how Teshuva allows for an expanded…
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Teshuva and Tzedaka
Delivered on Zoom to Tomer Devorah alumni, Rav Burg explores the Mitzvah of Tzedaka and it's essential connection to Teshuva. Tzedaka is not something we give…
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Rosh Hashanah - Reconciling Trembling With Joy
In this shiur, the first shiur of the year in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores two approaches as to how we can reconcile the seriousness and the joy of Rosh…
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Teshuva - Building A New Relationship With Hashem
In this shiur, delivered to Aish Gesher for Women, Rav Burg explains how Teshuva allows us to build a new relationship with Hashem. From within our wrong…
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Teshuva - A Sanctuary in Space
In this short shiur, delivered to Mevaseret Alumni, Rav Bug explains why the Rabbeinu Yonah calls Teshuva a sanctuary. Teshuva is not just something we do but…
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Nitzavim - Make Good Choices
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfman's, Rav Burg explains why we need to be told by Moshe Rabbeinu not to choose death. How many of us choose a path that leads…
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Ki Tavo - Collect Your Fruits
In this shiur, the inaugural shiur Sharfmans, Rav Burg explores the inner meaning of the seven species and why we must deliver them in a basket to the Kohen.