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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
Elul - Meeting the King in the Field
The Alter Rebbe teaches us that the King comes out to the field to meet with us during Elul. What is the inner depth of this Mashal? Why does the King take…
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Reeh - The Fate of the Many Lies in the Hands of the Individual
In this week's Parsha shiur, delivered at the final NCSY Kollel Mishmar of the summer, Rav Burg analyzes the first pasuk in Parshas Reeh. The lessons explored…
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Great Debates - Should a Rebbe Know What His Talmid is Doing on a Saturday Night
NCSY Kollel ran a program called Great Debates. In this debate, featuring Rav Yosef Hirschel vs Rav Burg, the topic debated was should a Rebbe know what his…
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A Beautiful Story of Chesed
In this shiur, delivered at NCSY Kollel Mishmar, Rav Burg told over an exceptional story of Chesed in Beit Shemesh involving a family that is struggling with a…
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Finding the Sweetness in Torah
In this shiur, delivered at NCSY Michlelet, Rav Burg explores the bracha of V'haarev Na. Only through finding the sweetness of Torah can we ensure transmission…
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Tisha B'Av - Feeling Hashem's Pain
In this shiur, delivered at NCSY Kollel on Tisha B'Av, Rav Burg explains how we are all very busy trying to tap into our own loss on Tisha B'Av but what about…
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Tisha B'Av - The Five Stages of Destruction
In this shiur, delivered at NCSY Michlelet to both TJJ and Michlelet girls, Rav Burg explains how each one of the five tragedies that occurred on Tisha B'Av…
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Devarim - Choosing a Godly Life
In this shiur, delivered in NCSY Kollel at Mishmar, Rav Burg explains (based on a sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe) why Hashem allowed Klal to make the totally…
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Nine Days - Discovering The Simcha That Comes From Aveilus
Chazal teach us that anyone who mourns the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash will merit to see it in it's state of Simcha. In this shiur, delivered to the…
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Matos - Making His Ratzon Our Ratzon
In this shiur, delivered at NCSY Kollel Mishmar, Rav Burg (quoting from Rav Lopiansky shlit"a) explains why the last battle that Moshe Rabbeinu fought was…
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Matos Masei - Hard Enough to Survive and Complete the Journey (Staff Training With NCSY Next Step)
In this shiur Rav Burg explains, based on a sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the connection between the Masei and the reason why these Parshios are read…
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Parshas Shelach - You Are Not Fallen, You're in Process
In this short shiur, delivered at the grand banquet of Mevaseret, Rav Burg addresses the Talmidim for the final time of the year. In this shiur he defines the…
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Behaalosecha - Swimming Against the Stream of Life
In this shiur, the last of the year in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg addresses the inverted nuns that we find in this weeks Parsha. What are they doing in this week…
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Shavuos - To Be A Part Of God's Nation
In this shiur, delivered in Michlala, Rav Burg explains (based on the Torah of the Nachlas Yosef) the first several Pesukim of Megillas Rus. Understanding the…
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Shavuos - Finding Hashem in the Torah
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the topic of seeing the sounds by Har Sinai. The Zohar HaKadosh takes this literally. The inner…
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Shavuos - When You Thought I Wasn't Looking
When we know deeply that we matter, that our actions matter, we are capable of doing incredible things. The Medrash teaches us that had Boaz known that his…
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Shavuos - To Be a Part of God's Nation
In this shiur, delivered to the Nshei of Rechavia, Rav Burg explains (based on the Torah of the Nachlas Yosef) the first several Pesukim of Megillas Rus…
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Shavuos - The Value of the Birchas HaTorah
In this shiur, delivered to the Nshei of Neve Shamir in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Rav Burg explores the concept of Chazal's explanation thatthe destruction of the…
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Shavuos - Essence of Polarities (followed by a Q&A with Rav and Rebbetzin Burg)
In this shiur, delivered in Aish HaTorah to the Chizzuk Mission led by Barrie Feld, Rav Burg addresses how the physical and spiritual can be fused with each…
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NCSY Staff Training
In this shiur, delivered in the Jerusalem Gold Hotel in Yerushalayim to NCSY Summer advisors, Rav Burg addresses the topic of Chinuch and how it is an…
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Bamidbar - Ask Not What Hashem Can Do For You But What You Can Do For Hashem
In a consumeristic culture we have lost sight of what our relationship with Hashem is all about. In this shiur Rav Burg explains how we tend to "sell" Judaism…
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Dignity in Focus Challenge (Tomer Devorah Awards Dinner) - Rav and Rebbetzin Burg (shiur plus Q&A)
For several years Tomer Devorah runs a DIF (Dignity in Focus) challenge that culminates with a dinner for the winners. The dinner is highlighted by a short…
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Behar - Restored to Factory Settings
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the Mitzvah of Shemitta. Why does the Torah indicate that Shemitta was to be kept immediately upon…
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Lag Ba’Omer and the Scent of Torah (full)
This episode contains the full shiurim of Rav Aryeh Cohen and Rav Burg (previous uploads are missing a couple of minutes of Rav Burgs shiur) shiurim as well as…
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Lag Ba'omer & The Scent Of Torah - A Woman's Calling in Torah (Rav Aryeh Cohen and Rav Burg) Pt. 2
Part 2 of the shiurim on exploring a woman's role in Torah as we draw close to Shavuos and a question and answer with Rav Cohen and Rav Burg on a variety of…
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Lag Ba'omer & The Scent Of Torah - A Woman's Calling in Torah (Rav Aryeh Cohen and Rav Burg) Pt. 1
These shiurim, delivered in Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, was a night of Chizzuk to explore the role of women as we draw close to Shavuos and Matan Torah. A special…
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Emor - Loving Those Who Curse God
In this shiur, delivered on the NCSY staff training Shabbaton, Rav Burg explains the secret story behind the Mekalel and what led him to curse Hashem and scoff…
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Lag Ba’Omer - True Achdus
In this shiur, delivered in Monsey, Rav Burg explains how Rav Shimon Bar Yochai, and the inner Torah which connects to the essence of all things, brings true…
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Emor - Structured for Success (Dealing With Real Life After Sem)
In this shiur, based on a Sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l, Rav Burg highlights the needs for structure in order to be successful. In the Beis HaMikdash…
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Sefiras HaOmer - Redeeming Jews From the Fitieth Level of Tumah
In this shiur, delivered in Mevaseret at the start of Kayitz Zman, Rav Burg explains how Moshe Rabbeinu wanted Rav Akiva to take the Jews out of Mitzrayim…
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Parshas Tazria/Metzorah - Tahor, Tahor
In this shiur, based on a sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l, Rav Burg explains the concepts of Ratzo and Shov, three perspectives as to how Hashem relates…
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Pesach - Arrogance: Confronting the Essence of Pharaoh
In this shiur, delivered to the Nshei of Neve Shamir, Rav Burg explains the Zohar HaKadosh which speaks about Moshe Rabbeinu confronting the inner essence of…
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Vayikra - The Essential Ingredient for Shalom Bayis - Humility
Question - If Rebbe were to give shiur about things to keep in mind and be conscious of when building a home of shalom bayis what would be the number one thing…
Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai BurgVayikra - Bringing Out the Essence of the Animal Soul
Every single korban has salt in it but none are allowed to have yeast or honey (with the exception of the shtei halachem on Shavuos). The Rambam explains that…
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Pesach - Mapping a Course to Freedom
As the beginning of Maggid, Ha Lachma Anya contains within it all of Maggid. And yet it is a section of the Haggadah that makes very little sense. In contrast…
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Parshas Vayakel - Mirror Mirror
The washstand in the Mishkan was made of the hand mirrors that the women used in Mitzrayim to ensure the continuity of Klal Yisrael. Moshe Rabbeinu was…
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Parshas Tetzaveh - Pomegranate Jews: The Beauty of Imperfection
Based on a sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of bells and pomegranates on the hem of the clothing of the Kohen Gadol…
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Purim - The Joy of Incompletion
In this shiur, delivered to the Chizzuk Mission in Aish HaTorah, Rav Burg explains how even though we remained servants of Achashverosh (which is why we don't…
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Parshas Terumah - Holy Foolishness: Achieving the Impossible
Yaakov Avinu took with him the Atzei Shitim from Eretz Canaan to Mitzrayim in order the Klal Yisrael should have the wood in order to build the Mishkan and the…
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Parshas Yisro - Excitement vs Inspiration
When Yisro joins Moshe Rabbeinu in the desert, Moshe relays all of the happenings that occurred to Klal Yisrael. This despite the fact that the passuk already…
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Parshas Yisro - Rational vs Suprarational Education
In order to marry Tzipporah, Moshe Rabbeinu makes a deal with Yisro to give his first born child to Avodah Zara. How couold Moshe have done this? Are we not…
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Parshas Beshalach - Singing Yiddishkeit Back to Life
Rav Burg began this shiur by asking four questions: 1. We sang Shira in the zechus of our Emunah. What is the connection between our emunah and singing? 2. Az…
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Parshas Beshalach - Transforming Pharaoh
Why is the name of the Parsha Beshalach when there are so many aspects of the Parsha (Krias Yam Suf, the descent of the Mann and Milchemes Amalek) that seem to…
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Parshas Bo - Becoming a Shliach for Hashem
The Halachos of Shlucho Shel Adam Kamoso is learned out from the Parsha of Korban Pesach. Why specifically this Parsha? Moshe Rabbeinu is the ultimate Shliach…
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Parshas Vaera - Your Ego is Trying to Kill You
Each of the ten Makkos that destroyed Mitzrayim taught invaluable lessons about the dysfunctionality of Mitzrayim. In this shiur, based on a sicha from the…
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Aish Kodesh 11 (Vayechi and Vaeira)
In this shiur Rav Burg gave over two pieces from the Aish Kodesh. Vayechi - In this piece the Aish Kodesh teaches us how Yaakov Avinu being "blocked off" from…
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Shemos - Becoming a Faithful Shepherd
Moshe Rabbeinu wonders about the reason Klal Yisrael has not left Mitzrayim. Initially he believes that Klal Yisrael needs a warrior to teach them their…
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Shemos - Holy Chutzpah
There are various opinions regarding the origin of Moshe Rabbeinu's name. There are those that maintain that it is a Hebrew name while others maintain that it…
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Parshas Vayechi - The History of the World in 12 Steps
Based on brilliant and novel insight the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt'l, Rav Burg explains how each name of the parshios of Bereishis represents another stage in the…
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Vayechi - We Are Not Our Lowest Moments
The challenge of parenting in today's generation may feel enormous. Yosef HaTzaddik teaches us that even in the most difficult circumstances we are all capable…
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Parshas Vayigash - A Father's Love
Yosef HaTzaddik reveals himself to his brothers and asks "Is my father still alive?" Of course he is alive! The brothers have been talking about Yaakov…
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Parshas Vayigash - You Are Enough
Yehuda tells Yosef do not get angry for you are like Pharaoh himself. The worst way to get someone to calm down is to tell them to calm down. Why would Yehuda…
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Aish Kodesh - 10 (Mikeitz)
Yaakov blesses his children that the Egyptian ruler should have mercy on them. The Aish Kodesh asks, why doesn't he bless them that no harm should befall them…
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Chanukah - Purity in our Judaism
Delivered to the Shana Bet in Mevaseret for Erev Shabbos Mussar, Rav Burg discusses why the Mitzvah of Ner Chanuka is on the home, the reason for the…
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Yud Tes Kislev Fabrengen in Shaalvim (Vayishlach/Vayeshev)
Delivered in Shaalvim, Rav Burg discusses Dinah going out into Shechem to reveal the hidden spark of Rav Akiva and Yosef losing his begadim in order to…
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Parshas Vayeshev - Finding Connection Within
Chazal tells us that Yosef HaTzaddik would tell Yaakov Avinu about all of the misdeeds of the shevatim. If there was anything to tell, he would run to his…
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Yud Tes Kislev Fabrengen - (Parshas Vayeshev) Finding Hashem in Our Loneliness
Delivered to the women of Nishei Neve Shamir, in this shiur Rav Burg explains how the story of Yosef and Eishes Potiphar, the story of Rachav and Yehoshua and…