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Mevaseret Mishmar
Thursday-night shmoozen delivered at Yeshivat Shaarei Mevaseret Tzion. Newest first.
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Lech Lecha: There's a You the World Hasn't Met Yet
What happens to a person who grows up feeling that certain parts of who they are are simply unacceptable? Over time, we learn which parts of ourselves earn love and approval and which parts are better kept hidden. Eventually, we can become so accustomed to be
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Cheshvan - The Last Jew
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains one of the most extraordinary expressions of Ahavas Yisrael found in Chazal. Eretz Yisrael desperately needs rain, yet Klal Yisrael delays asking Hashem for it until the seventh of Cheshvan. W
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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
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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. I
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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 betwee
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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
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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 jour
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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 wo
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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 trai
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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
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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
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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.
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Bo - 🔥🔥🔥 Don't Bark At Jews 🔥🔥🔥
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explores the inner meaning as to why the dogs did not bark when Klal Yisrael leaves Mitzrayim. We bark because of our impoverished mentality. When we feel like we are not enough we feel the need to take
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Bo - 🔥🔥🔥Educating the Rasha 🔥🔥🔥
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains how Hashem teaches parents how to relate to children who consider themselves a Rasha and how we educate that child that does not know his inner Tzaddik.
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Toldos - Don't Daven B'Yichidus
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the power of davening for someone else. The formation of Klal Yisrael hinges on selfless davening.
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Vayera - Glass Houses
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains how judgementalism comes from our belief system about ourselves.
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Lech Lecha - Discovering Hashem Through Chesed
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains how Avraham discovers Hashem by staring unflichingly into the chaos and choosing to bring healing to the world.
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Noach - The Stories We Tell About Ourselves Become The Stories We Tell About Another
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains why we would consider Noach a "nothing" when the Torah describes him as a Tzaddik. We project on to others what we believe about ourselves.
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Ki Teitzei - Believe In Your Own Nobility
In thus shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains (based on the Chasam Sofer) why Dovid HaMelech did not understand that Avshaloms coup could be attributed to his mother, a Yefas Toar.
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Shoftim - Finding the Courage to Fight For Your Life
In this shmooze, delivered at the first Mevaseret Mishmar of the year, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the Egla Arufa. When we feel that our life is not worth fighting for that's when we lose our battles. When we feel the love that is coursing through o
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Naso - Building a Vessel of Shalom
In this shmooze, delivered at the final Mevaseret Mishmar of the year, Rav Burg explains the inner the nature of Shalom and how it contains all of the Bracha in our lives.
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Shavuos - Taking Responsibility for Being Mekabel the Torah
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between the cutting of the grain and Shavuos. On Shavuos Hashem gives us the Torah but it is up to us to take responsibility for receiving the Torah.
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Sefiras HaOmer: Finding Menucha in Chaotic Times
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of Sefiras HaOmer and the connection to Shabbos. Only when we find serenity can we dream and only when we can dream can we receive the Torah.
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Shemini - Seeing the Godliness in Ourselves Even When We Have Stumbled
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explores three different Torah’s around the halachos of Kashrus in animals. The Kli Yakar explains that we must be careful about our surrounding influences. Rav Yisrael Salanter teaches that we can neve
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