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Themes
What are you working on?
45 shiurim Machshava & Mussar
The big ideas of Yiddishkeit, and the work of becoming a person.
122 shiurim Psychology & Avodas Hashem
Shame, dignity, vulnerability, anxiety, self — where the inner life meets Torah.
102 shiurim Chassidus
Tanya, Aish Kodesh, Rebbe Nachman, the Baal Shem Tov, fabrengens.
46 shiurim Dating & Marriage
Attraction, shidduchim, settling, engagement, and building a bayis.
42 shiurim Parenting
Raising children, teenagers, and ourselves.
27 shiurim Tefillah
Davening that means something.
35 shiurim Emunah & Bitachon
Faith, trust, hashgacha, and pain.
52 shiurim Teshuva & Growth
Falling, getting up, regret, forgiveness, and change.
30 shiurim Q&A with Rav Burg
Questions from the community, answered.
26 shiurim Judaism 101
Why should I be a religious Jew? The foundations, for adults.
15 shiurim Chizuk in Hard Times
War, loss, and staying strong.
25 shiurim Eretz Yisrael & Geulah
The land, the galus, and Mashiach.
16 shiurim Fabrengens & Events
Recorded at dinners, shabbatonim, fabrengens and other gatherings.
18 shiurim Chinuch
Raising and teaching the next generation: talmidim, children and the work of influence.
The year
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Vayera — How Do You Face a Shattered World Without Losing Yourself?
What happens when you look at the devastation in front of you and realize that something you cared deeply about is gone? How do you let yourself feel that pain without losing who you are? Avraham pleaded for Sedom. The next morning, he returns to the very pla
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Vayera – He Touched Heaven. Then He Came Back for Those Still on Earth.
Avraham comes down from the Akeidah after an encounter with Hashem that we can barely begin to imagine. Waiting below are Yishmael and Eliezer, who couldn’t even see what he and Yitzchak saw on the mountain. What kind of relationship could he possibly have wit
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Vayera - When Running Away Runs in the Family
You walk away, and the tension eases. But what happens when leaving becomes the only way you know how to cope? And what do your children learn from watching you? In this shiur, delivered at Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explores the connection between Hagar’s runnin
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The 17th of Cheshvan - When You're Afraid of What You Need Most
What happens when the very thing we need most becomes the thing we are most afraid of? When someone has been deeply hurt in a relationship, the desire for connection doesn't disappear, but the fear of being hurt again can make it almost impossible to reach for
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Vayera - Why We Hold On to What’s Destroying Us When We Know We Need To Walk Away
Why do we hold on to things that are destroying us, even when we know we need to walk away? When Lot was rescued from Sedom, the Torah tells us that he hesitated. Even with his life in danger, he couldn't bring himself to leave. What was he so afraid of losing
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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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Lech Lecha - You Did Everything I Asked. So Why Do I Feel So Alone?
Sarah gives Hagar to Avraham as a wife. But when Hagar becomes pregnant and begins humiliating Sarah, Sarah turns to Avraham and declares, "Chamasi alecha" — this is your fault! But what did Avraham do wrong? He did exactly what Sarah asked him to do. So why d
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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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Cheshvan - The Stories We Tell Ourselves When Hashem Feels Absent
After the extraordinary spiritual heights of Tishrei, Cheshvan arrives with an unsettling silence. The Yomim Tovim are over, the inspiration begins to fade, and we are left wondering where all that closeness to Hashem has gone. When Shlomo HaMelech completed
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Cheshvan - When the Music Stops: Who Are You Without the Inspiration?
What happens when the inspiration fades? When the music of Tishrei stops, the Yomim Noraim are behind us, and the spiritual energy that carried us through the Yamim Tovim begins to disappear? Cheshvan is often experienced as a spiritual letdown. But perhaps s
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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 relations
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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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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 experience
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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 t
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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 M
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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 לְבָבְ
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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”—i
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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 Hash
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