Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Shiurim and Divrei Chizzuk from our Mashpia Rav Mordechai Burg, providing inspiration to keep your spark alive.
Episodes
Bereishis - The First Murder: When Someone Else's Existence Becomes Unbearable
What happens when another person's success makes us feel like a failure? Why can someone else's significance threaten our own sense of worth? And how does our need to feel secure, important, and loved become a source of conflict in our most important relationships?The Torah tells us that Kayin spoke to Hevel immediately before murdering him, but never reveals what was said. Bereishis Rabbah offers
Bereishis - Help I Have Fallen And I Can't Get Up!
In this shmooze, delivered at the first Mevaseret Mishmar of the Zman, Rav Burg explains that the problem was not that Adam HaRishon sinned but that he his behind the Eitz HaDaas. To make a mistake is human. When we identify with the sin is when we have a real problem.
Hoshana Rabba - Yearning For An Embodied Relationship With Hashem
The soul is always searching for home.We spend so much of our lives trying to get closer to Hashem. We seek inspiration, clarity, healing, spiritual intensity, and the feeling that we are finally where we are supposed to be. But what if even those experiences are not the destination? What if they are only treasures we find on the way to the King?In this shiur, delivered at the Leil Hoshana Rabbah
Succos - Safe Enough to Look Up
What does it mean that the sukkah is described by the Baalei Chassidus as Hashem’s embrace?Delivered at the Mesorah Simchas Beis Hashoeva, in this short shmooze Rav Burg explores a powerful idea: real growth becomes possible when a person feels safe enough to stop protecting himself.Drawing on Donald Winnicott’s idea of a “holding environment,” we look at the role of parents, counselors, teachers,
Succos - Yes But Do You Still Love Me? The Embrace of the Sukkah After Yom Kippur
If the Ananei HaKavod first surrounded the Jewish people when they left Mitzrayim, why do we celebrate Sukkos in Tishrei? The Gra explains that Sukkos commemorates the clouds that returned after the cheit ha’eigel and the forgiveness of Yom Kippur. These were not the clouds of an innocent relationship. They were the clouds that came back.Being forgiven does not always mean that we know how to feel
Succos - When You Find Yourself, There’s Room for Everyone
Why is it sometimes so difficult to make room for someone who is different from us? Given to NCSY 4G advisors as part of their chinuch development, in this shiur Rav Burg explores how returning to ourselves on Yom Kippur prepares us to welcome others into our sukkah.Through Rav Kook’s understanding of teshuvah, the arba minim, and the story of the Baal Shem Tov’s sukkah, we explore what allows an
Yom Kippur - No Jew Left Behind: The Yom Kippur that Ronnie Greenwald z"l Spent in the Lobby
Right before Kol Nidrei, we make a startling declaration: we permit ourselves to daven together with the transgressors. Chazal go even further and teach that a communal fast without the sinners of Israel is not considered a true fast.Why?Because Yom Kippur is not meant to become a private religious experience. The Navi Yeshayahu tells us that if our fasting causes us to turn inward and stop seeing
Yom Kippur - The 955th Gate
What happens when it feels like the door has closed?Acher hears a Bas Kol say, “Return, wayward children, except for Acher.” Neilah itself is the moment when the gates are closing.And yet Chazal teach us that this is precisely the moment not to give up.In this dhmoy, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explores one of the deepest ideas in teshuvah: that even when everything seems sealed, even
Aseres Yemei Teshuva - Inviting In Your Unwanted Guests: An IFS Approach to Teshuva
We often imagine Yom Kippur as a massive cleaning operation. Get rid of the jealousy, anger, shame, and desires we would rather not admit to. Make the house presentable. Then Hashem can come in.But hachnasas orchim teaches us a different avodah. A host knows how to give a guest a place in his home without giving the guest ownership of the house. What would it mean to relate to the unwanted parts o
Rosh Hashana - The Satan Knows What You Did But He Doesn’t Know You.
The Satan has heard the shofar for thousands of years. Why should hearing it once more leave him confused?In this shiur, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains that the shofar is not a code he has failed to crack. It is the private language between Hashem and Klal Yisrael—a language that can be heard from the outside but understood only from within the relationship. A prosecutor may kno
Rosh Hashana - No More Hiding: How to Own What You Did Without Losing Who You Are
Why does Adam HaRishon hide after he sins—and why, when Hashem confronts him, does he immediately blame Chavah and even Hashem? Because once an aveirah feels like a revelation of who I am, the truth becomes too dangerous to face.In this shiur, delivered in MMY, Rav Burg explores the difference between guilt and shame, why vidui must be spoken aloud, and why Hashem begins with the gentle question o
Nitzavim - Are You Dating or Auditioning? Where Real Attraction Comes From
Dating has a strange way of pulling us out of ourselves. Instead of meeting the person across from us, we begin watching ourselves through their eyes: Am I saying the right thing? Do they want me?The Baal HaTurim finds a remez to Elul in the words אֶת לְבָבְךָ וְאֶת לְבַב—“your heart and a heart.” By leaving out the word זַרְעֶךָ, the identity of that second heart remains open. The pasuk is reveal
Nitzavim - You Don’t Need to Become More Jewish. You Need to Become More Yourself.
Most of us assume that Yiddishkeit is something being asked of us from the outside. And when it feels difficult, we take that difficulty as proof that it is not really who we are.But the Torah says something very different: “Ki karov eilecha hadavar me’od”—it is already exceedingly close, in your mouth and in your heart.In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the startling ide
Rosh Hashana - This Year The Shofar Is Silent. Your Soul Is Not.
This year, the first day of Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbos, and the shofar will not be blown. For many of us, especially after October 7, that silence feels frightening. If the shofar awakens us and protects the year, why would Chazal ask us to enter Rosh Hashanah without it?This shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission before Rosh Hashana, explores the difference between יום תרועה and זכרון תרועה a
🔥 🔥🔥 Elul Fabrengen With Chaim Ghoori and Rav Burg 🔥 🔥 🔥
At this Motzai Shabbos Fabrengen at the Robinson home in Cedharhurst, Chaim Ghoori sang the most beautiful music and Rav Burg shared Divrei Chizuk on Teshuva. Rav Burg speaks at the 18 minute mark and then again at the one hour mark.
Ki Teitzei - You Have No Idea Who You’re Talking About
Why does the Torah command us to remember Miriam’s aveira? Miriam loved Moshe. She helped raise him, risked her life to save him, and never intended to demean him. Of all the aveiros in Tanach, why must we remember this one?And why does the Torah describe it in almost exactly the same language it uses for Amalek?In this shmooze, delivered at the first Mishmar of the year in Mevaseret, Rav Burg exp
Shoftim - Who Are The Judges Sitting At Your Gates?
ShoftimThe Torah commands us to appoint judges and officers at our gates. The Shelah hears something deeply personal in those words. A person has seven gates—two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, and a mouth—and all day long, life passes through them. We see something. We hear something. We get a certain sense of what happened. But the evidence does not interpret itself. Somewhere inside us, a judge
Elul - Wearing The Crown Of Imperfection
We often imagine teshuvah as going backward—to the person we were before we failed, became cynical, or compromised something inside ourselves. But if teshuvah simply meant retracing our steps, why does the letter ה contain a second opening?The Gemara teaches that this world was created with the letter ה: a wide opening below through which anyone may leave, and a smaller, higher opening through whi
Re’eh: The Life You Don’t Know You’re Choosing
Most of us think we are making choices. Often, we are repeating patterns we learned so long ago that we have stopped calling them patterns and started calling them our personality.Parshas Re’eh begins with a demand: See. See the consequences that remain abstract, the idols we have renamed, and the needs hidden beneath the behaviors we cannot seem to change.In this shiur, delivered at Mishmar in NC
Eikev - The One Thing Hashem Asks of You: When Yiras Shamayim Becomes Natural
Everything is in the hands of Heaven—except yiras Shamayim. But why is fear of Heaven the one thing Hashem cannot give us? And if yirah is Hashem’s greatest treasure, how can Moshe describe it as something small?In this shiur, delivered at Mishmar in NCSY Kollel, Rav Burg explores yirah not simply as fear, but as the capacity to live in the presence of a reality larger than ourselves—to accept tha
Tu B'Av: After the Rupture: A Six-Step Path to Repairing Klal Yisrael
After a Tisha B’Av shmooze about making room for one another, a close friend asked the question that slogans about achdus often avoid: What do we do when the differences are real?In this shiur, delivered in NCSY Kollel, Rav Burg reads the six events of Tu B’Av not as disconnected moments in Jewish history, but as a carefully ordered map for repairing a relationship after it has been ruptured. The
Tisha B'Av - Is There Room For Me?
Massive charred beams from the destruction of the First Beis HaMikdash were recently uncovered in Ir David—preserved beneath melted plaster for thousands of years.The discovery raises a powerful question: Why preserve the ruins?Chazal teach that we are not meant to remain trapped in destruction, but neither are we permitted to rebuild as though nothing happened. We build again—but we leave part of
Tisha B'Av - Kinnah 16 - When Titus Defeats Hashem and Jewish Children Sing
Titus enters the Kodesh HaKodashim, desecrates everything sacred, and walks away untouched. The Roman armies tear through the Beis HaMikdash while the angels stand ready—and Hashem appears to remain silent. Evil does not merely attack. It appears to win.But one wall remains.And in the final movement of the Kinnah, four hundred captive boys and girls are stripped of every form of control. Facing a
Tisha B'Av - An IFS approach to Rachel Imeinu And Redeeming Our Exiled Pain
Why is Rachel Imeinu buried on the road—outside Chevron, the resting place of the Avos and Imahos? And why is it specifically her weeping that brings Klal Yisrael home from exile?In this shiur, delivered at Kever Rachel to the campers of Sdei Chemed, we explore the story of Rachel Imeinu through the lens of Internal Family Systems—IFS.When pain feels too overwhelming or foreign to our essential se
Tisha B'Av - When the Beis HaMikdash Falls, Where Does Hashem Go?
What happens to our relationship with Hashem when the structure through which we experienced Him is destroyed?In this shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg explains that the loss of the Beis HaMikdash was far more than the destruction of a building. It created a terrifying spiritual question: If the place of the relationship is gone, has the relationship itself disappeared?Rabbi Shimon
Devarim - When Love Feels Like Hate: The Wound Behind Tisha B’Av
How could Klal Yisrael look at everything Hashem had done for them—the miracles of Mitzrayim, Krias Yam Suf, the mann in the desert—and conclude: “Hashem hates us”?And why did one night of misplaced tears become a night of crying for generations?In this shiur, delivered at Michlelet NCSY, Rav Burg explores the deeper wound behind the sin of the Meraglim. Their fear was not merely that they would l
Devarim - Your Voice Is Waiting To Be Heard
When Hashem first called Moshe Rabbeinu to lead Klal Yisrael, Moshe did not merely say that speaking was difficult for him. He declared, “I am not a man of words.” Yet forty years later, Moshe’s final contribution to the Torah begins: “These are the words that Moshe spoke.”How did Moshe transform from someone who needed Aharon to serve as his mouth into the man who gave us an entire Sefer Devarim?
Masei - The Distance Is The Journey
In this shiur, delivered at the first Mishmar of NCSY Kollel, Rav Burg explains the Mashal of the King taking his son to a faraway land in order to be healed. On the return journey, the King recounts to his son all of the challenges that they faced on the journey.The Neshoma in shomayim is "sick" in that it has no "independent identity." We are sent far away to this world to "heal" so that we can
Matos Masei - IFS and the Yarden Within: When Protective Parts Are Afraid to Cross
In this deep psychological exploration of Parshas Matos, Rav Burg examines the request of Bnei Gad and Bnei Reuven to stay on the other side of the Yarden through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS).Eretz Yisrael represents the inner space where a person comes into Self — where he stops being carried and begins to live with courage, responsibility, and purpose.Their request to remain on the
Matos/Masei - The Journey After Failure
In Parshas Matos/Masei, the Torah records the forty-two journeys of Klal Yisrael through the Midbar. At first glance, the list seems like history that will never happen again. But the Baal Shem Tov teaches that every person has his own forty-two journeys.In this shiur, delivered by Rav Burg in Camp Morasha, we explore why the Torah records not only the places where Klal Yisrael succeeded, but also
Three Weeks - The Mourning We Don’t Feel: How to Belong to a Beis HaMikdash We Never Saw
How do we belong to a story we did not experience?In this shiur, delivered at The Space, Rav Burg explores one of the deepest challenges of the Three Weeks: how can we mourn a Beis HaMikdash we never saw?We may know the facts of the Churban, but information is not experience. Knowledge is not mourning. Mourning begins when the loss becomes personal enough that we feel the emptiness.Drawing on the
Pinchas - Surrounded by His Name: When Hashem Restores Our Identity
Why does Sefer Bamidbar begin and end with a census? And why, in Parshas Pinchas, does the Torah surround each family name with a ה and a י?Rashi explains that the nations mocked Klal Yisrael and attacked the purity of their lineage. But was the Torah trying to convince the nations — or was Hashem speaking to us?In this shiur, delivered in Camp HASC, Rav Burg explores the deeper meaning of the sec
Balak - Why Insecure People Become Dangerous: Bilaam, Shame, and the Need to Be Important
Bilaam was not destroyed by lack of talent, he was destroyed by insecurity.He was a prophet, a man of power, a man whose words could shape reality. But he had no rooted sense of self. He needed kavod, money, and status to feel valued.In this shiur, delivered in “Steve’s”, Rav Burg uncover the psychological depth behind Bilaam HaRasha. Why Bilaam hears Hashem’s question as rejection, why he needs k
Chukas - The Golden Calf Was A Panic Attack, Now Mom Has To Clean Up The Mess
Why do Chazal connect the Parah Adumah, which purifies from tumas meis, to the sin of the Golden Calf?In this shiur, delivered in "Steve's", Rav Burg explore the Cheit HaEigel not simply as primitive idolatry, but as a deep human collapse in the face of absence, uncertainty, and death. When Moshe Rabbeinu disappeared, Klal Yisrael cried, “We do not know what happened to him.” Chazal
Chukas - When the Well Runs Dry: Water, Loss and the Power of Words
In this shiur, delivered in "Steve's", Rav Burg explores the moment Klal Yisrael lost Miriam and, along with her, their sense of continuity.Rav Burg delves into why their reaction to a lack of water was truly a displaced expression of grief over Miriam’s absence and how finding language for our loss can transform our struggles.When Hashem told Moshe to speak to the rock, it was a lesson for us all
12 Lessons From The Knicks Championship Run
In 1968, after the first manned mission to orbit the moon, the Rebbe taught that even a lunar expedition contains lessons in avodas Hashem. Quoting the Baal Shem Tov, the Rebbe reminded us that everything a person sees or hears must become a lesson in serving Hashem.So what can we learn from a Knicks championship?This shiur takes the drama of the season, the missed shots, the hustle plays, the OG
How To Say Goodbye (Final Shiur of TD)
Chazal teach that a person should not take leave of his friend through ordinary conversation, laughter, lightheadedness, or idle words, but through a dvar halacha because through that, “he remembers him.”Why are endings so spiritually powerful? Why does the Gemara specifically require halacha, not simply Torah? And why is the Gemara’s example connected to Adam HaRishon, Bavel, and the palm trees o
Korach - Reviving the Dead: Aharon’s Staff and the Secret of True Leadership
After Korach’s rebellion, Klal Yisrael was spiritually shattered, a generation sentenced to die in the desert, vulnerable to the false comfort of a leader who told them what they wanted to hear: “You are all holy.”But the blossoming of Aharon’s staff revealed a deeper model of leadership. True leadership is not about power, status, or standing above the people. It is the ability to stand among dry
Shelach - From Sodom to Sapphire: The Inner Meaning of Techeiles
In this shmooze, delivered at the final Mishmar of the year in Mevaseret, Rav Burg explores the inner meaning of Techeiles and why Chazal connect it specifically to Avraham Avinu’s refusal to accept even “a thread or a shoelace” from the King of Sodom.Why would Avraham accept gifts from Pharaoh and Avimelech, yet refuse anything from Sodom? What is the deeper connection between Sodom’s worldview a
Shelach - When Fear Sounds Like Wisdom: Yehoshua, Calev, and the Yud That Wouldn’t Disappear
The Meraglim were not simple people. They were great leaders, tzaddikim, and respected voices in Klal Yisrael. And yet, the Torah reveals a moment where fear entered the room and began to sound like wisdom.In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the inner difference between Yehoshua and Calev. Yehoshua is saved through Moshe Rabbeinu’s tefillah and the addition of the small le
Shelach - The Man Who Tried to Save Shabbos and Broke It
Why would Tzelafchad desecrate Shabbos for the sake of Heaven?Chazal reveal that the mekoshesh eitzim was not acting out of rebellion, but out of desperation. Klal Yisrael thought that after the decree not to enter Eretz Yisrael, perhaps they were no longer bound by mitzvos. Tzelafchad wanted to create a moment so shocking that it would force clarity.But that is exactly where the danger lies.Shabb
Behalosecha - Leadership From Above, Leadership From Within.
Moshe Rabbeinu reaches a breaking point. The people are crying for meat, but Moshe understands that this is not really about food. Something deeper is missing.Hashem’s answer is surprising: not meat, but more leaders. Seventy elders. Prophecy spreading beyond Moshe. And then Eldad and Meidad begin to prophesy, not in the Ohel Moed, but in the camp.Yehoshua is horrified. They are saying Moshe will
Behalosecha - Hit Pause. Stop the Spiral.
Why does the Torah place two pesukim, surrounded by inverted nuns, right between the nation leaving Har Sinai and their next complaint? Because before a person complains, he often runs. He withdraws from closeness, from responsibility, from becoming who he is meant to become.In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explores the hidden psychology of avoidance, the power of a pause, and ho
Shavuos - Before Torah, You Are for Sale: Rav Yosef, the Calf, and the Marketplace Inside the Soul
Rav Yosef celebrates Shavuos with a third-born calf and declares: “If not for this day, how many Yosefs would there be in the marketplace?”At first glance, it sounds like Rav Yosef is simply thanking Hashem that Torah made him into someone more than an average man in the street. But beneath the surface, Chazal are revealing something much deeper.Without Torah, a person can be pulled apart by the m
Shavuos - The Greeting That Opened the Door to Moshiach
Before Boaz meets Rus, before the story of David HaMelech begins, before the roots of Moshiach are planted, Megillas Rus pauses to tell us something that seems almost unnecessary:Boaz greeted his workers with the Name of Hashem.Why does that matter?Chazal reveal that this was not just good manners. It was one of three moments where Beis Din shel Mata acted, and Beis Din shel Maalah agreed. Somethi
Yom Yerushalayim - You Did Nothing Wrong. And That's Exactly The Problem.
You can keep every rule and still miss the whole point.The Gemara says Yerushalayim was destroyed because people judged by strict Torah law and did not live lifnim mishuras hadin. But that does not mean they failed to go “outside” the law. It means they failed to go deeper inside it.In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains that Halacha is not only a system of boundaries. It is
Bamidbar - Some Growth Only Happens in Mitzrayim
Why was Shevet Levi so much smaller than the other Shevatim?The Ramban explains that Levi was not enslaved in Mitzrayim. The rest of Klal Yisrael suffered under Pharaoh’s crushing labor and precisely through that suffering, they multiplied beyond nature. Levi grew naturally. Klal Yisrael grew redemptively.In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explores two kinds of growth: the calm, stead
Bamidbar - Chinuch Is Not Education, It Is Creation.
Why does the Torah call Aharon’s sons the children of Moshe? Because Moshe taught them Torah.But Chazal are telling us something much deeper than the value of good teaching. A Rebbe does not simply transfer information. He gives life. He helps a talmid become the person he was created to become.In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explores the difference between being “born” and bein
Bechukosai - The God Who Sees Us Truly And Doesn’t Walk Away
he promise of the Mishkan end with: “I will not be disgusted by you”?Why introduce rejection in the middle of love?Most human dysfunction begins with one fear:“If you really knew me, you would leave.”In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores: • the psychology of shame • why human beings hide • the fear beneath perfectionism, defensiveness, people-pleasing, anger, addiction, and
Behar - Spritual Vampires Feeding Off Human Weakness
What makes Ribis so spiritually destructive that Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says the lender “loses more than he gains”?This shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, explores why Ribis is not merely a financial prohibition, but a worldview — one that slowly trains a person to see human vulnerability as opportunity, relationships as transactions, and morality as negotiable when profit is involved.Why d
Bechukosai - Exile and the Fragmented Self
At the end of the Tochacha, Rashi makes a mysterious comment: Yaakov Avinu “took” the letter Vav from Eliyahu HaNavi as collateral to guarantee that Eliyahu will one day come announce the Geulah. But what does it mean to take a letter as security? And why specifically the letter Vav?In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explores the deeper meaning of the letter Vav as the symbol of co
Lag Ba'Omer - From Ashes to Fire
Why do we celebrate Lag Ba’Omer on a day born from tragedy?Chazal teach that Rabbi Akiva’s students stopped dying on this day. But the Pri Chadash offers a piercing twist: they stopped dying because there was no one left.And yet the Torah didn’t disappear.In this shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg explains how from total devastation emerged five students who rebuilt the future of Tor
Lag Ba'Omer - In The Merit of Rebbe Shimon
In this shmooze, delivered at the Mevaseret/Shaalvim Lag Ba'Omer Hilula, Rav Burg explains how the merit of Rebbe Shimon Bar Yochai can absolve all of Klal Yisrael from judgement.
Kedoshim / Sefiras HaOmer - It's All About The Family
In this shiur, delivered at Mevaserer Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning as to why the talmidim of Rav Akiva died and why the Mitzva of Kedoshim Tihiyu is given to all of Klal Yisrael.
Sefiras HaOmer - Heal The World
A conversation between three sages and the Roman empire sets the stage for one of the most profound journeys in Shas: the story of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the cave.What happens when a person encounters absolute truth? And what happens when they return to the world afterward?In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the tension between spiritual purity and physical life, the
Tazria-Metzora - Love vs Boundaries
When the Torah sends the Metzora “outside the camp,” is it rejection or something far deeper?We don’t throw people away. So why does the Torah seem to?This shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, reframes the exile of the Metzora not as punishment, but as a precise, rehabilitative consequence. Lashon hara creates the illusion of connection while quietly destroying trust. A person can feel surroun
Tazria-Metzora - Be Godly, See Deeper
A peddler walks through Tzipori offering the ultimate cure: “Who wants life?”Chazal reveal: it’s not a potion. It’s a perspective.In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg uncovers the deeper root of the metzora: not negative speech, but negative vision. When you only see the surface, the world looks broken and you speak accordingly. But when you learn to see deeper, to find Hashem withi
Tazria-Metzora - Raising Children To Leave The Nest
Why does the Torah prefer the ben yonah over the tor after childbirth?The tor bonds for life. When it loses its partner, it never recovers.The ben yonah also bonds deeply but can re-pair after loss.In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains that parenting means:Loving deeply but not in a way that makes separation impossible.At birth, a mother and child are one. But healthy growth
Pesach - Discovering Redemption In The Darkness Of Night
In this highly Kabbalistic shiur, delivered to NCSY 4G before Pesach, Rav Burg explores the sin of Adam and Chava, the journey of Kayin and Hevel throughout history, the battle between Moshe and Pharaoh as well as Moshe and Korach, the life of Shmuel HaNavi and finally the Neshoma of Rav Elazar ben Azaryah in an effort to understand the great chiddush of saying Yetzias Mitzrayim at night.
Shabbos HaGadol / Pesach - The World Is Waiting For Us To Declare Ourselves Hashem's Firstborn
In this shmooze, delivered in MMY at Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the Nes Gadol that happened on Shabbos HaGadol when Klal Yisrael was on the verge of leaving Mitzrayim.
Tzav - Stop “Connecting” to Hashem, You Were Never Apart To Begin With
Why are korbanos called shalom?And why does the Midrash insist that only a nation that accepted the Torah, not just one that keeps it,can bring them?In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg opens up a radically deeper understanding of korbanos. Not just as a sacrifice, but as a profound act of inner and cosmic realignment.This shiur covers topics such as:Why peace in Torah doesn’t mean t
Pesach - From Blood to Tears: The Hidden Secret of Redemption
Why do we dip twice on the night of the Seder?Because the first time we dipped… we destroyed a family.Yosef’s coat was dipped in blood and no one cried.Not the brothers. Not Yosef. And the silence began the Golus.On Pesach night, we dip again.This time into saltwater. Into tears.In this shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg explores that shift. How exile begins when we stop feeling each
Vayikra - When The Ani Feeds Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Rav Burg explains three dimensions as to how those of us who feel impoverished distant from Hashem can draw close to Hashem.
Vayikra -Everything Is Ready And Nothing Is Happening
The Mishkan was finished… and then nothing happened.For three months it stood untouched. The scoffers mocked. What’s done should be used. What’s ready should be revealed.But they missed something essential.In this shiur, delivered in Baer Miriam, Rav Burg explores the hidden depth behind that waiting, why Hashem chose to delay the Mishkan until the birth of Yitzchak, and what that teaches us about
Vayakhel/Pekudei - The Three Names That Define Your Life
Every person carries three names.The name given by our parents.The name given by the world.And the name we acquire for ourselves.In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores a profound teaching from the Medrash about identity, destiny, and the courage required to become who we truly are.The deepest self is not something we simply discover, it is something we acquire.And the greates
Vayakhel/Pekudei - Why Moshe Shut Down the Mishkan Fundraiser
In this shmooze, delivered at the final Mevaseret Mishmar of the Zman, Rav Burg explores the deeper psychology and spirituality behind that moment. Sometimes endless giving is not abundance, it is the lingering voice of scarcity. The Mishkan was meant to heal the rupture of the Eigel, to remind the Jewish people of a profound truth: בנים אתם לה׳ אלקיכם — you are children of Hashem, no matter what.
Vayakhel / Pikudei - When The Dream Shattered, They Started Building
Why were the women the most enthusiastic donors to the Mishkan? And why were they rewarded with the holiday of Rosh Chodesh?In this shiur, delivered in TVA, Rav Burh explores the deeper spiritual difference between the Golden Calf and the Mishkan, between despair that demands immediate certainty and faith that can live through hiddenness. Through the symbolism of mirrors, the moon, and the power o
Ki Tisa - Letting Your Light Shine Through
In this shiur, delivered in Stern, Rav Burg explains how humility creates transparency which in turn allows your light to shine through you.
Purim - Rectifying the Sin of Mechiras Yosef
In this short shiur, delivered Purim night in the Five Towns, Rav Burg explains why Yosef favored Binyamin and the connection to Purim.
Purim - Turning Wisdom Into Torah, The Head To The Heart
In this shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission in the Five Towns, Rav Burg explains the inner nature of the 50th level of Binah. At the level of the essence all duality fades and therefore the wisdom of the head can become the wisdom of the heart.
Tetzaveh - Seeing Actions and Intentions
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains how Hashem could at once be angry with Ahron HaKohen for participating in the Cheit HaEigel and appoint him Kohen Gadol for participating in the Cheit HaEigel.
Purim - Esther Hamlka: Changing the Nature of our Relationship With Hashem
In this shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission in Yerushalayim, Rav Burg explains the radical shift in our relationship with Hashem that begins on Purim.
Purim - Finding Joy In A Fragmented World
In this shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg explains how on the one hand we can only experience Simcha in a state of completion and on the other hand our world is fundamentally fragmented.
Terumah - 🔥 🔥 🔥 Authentic and Imperfect Jews
In this shmooze, delivered at Mishmar in Mevaseret, Rav Burg explains why the Aron contains a dimension of "shtus". Even when our insides have an element of shtus in them it does not mean that we are lacking authenticity.
Terumah - Filling In The Empty Spaces
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the lessons we learn from the Avnei Miluim.
Terumah - "I" Am Working On Myself
In this shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg explains the difference between becoming and being when it comes to working on ourselves. The problem is that our ego stands in the way of our personal growth.
Mishpatim - Judging Imperfect People
In this shiur, delivered in SKA, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning as to why the Sanhedrin is placed adjacent to the Mizbeach.
Mishpatim - Living From Your Deepest Desire
In this shiur, delivered in North Woodmere, Rav Burg explains how a Jew is capable of saying Naaseh V'Nishma. When we tap into our Ratzon Elyon is when we are truly passionate about life.
Yisro - Opening Yourself Up To The Truth
In this shiur, delivered to NCSY 4G Chicago, Rav Burg explains what it was about Yisro that made him able not only to hear but also to listen to the truth. When our hearts and minds are open only then can we allow the truth to penetrate our being.
Yisro - The Fire of Har Sinai Still Burns Today
In this shiur, delivered in the Mashiach home in Chicago, Rav Burg explores the Gemara that says that birds would be incinerated if they flew over Yonasan Ben Uziel while he was learning Torah.
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