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Emunah & Bitachon
Faith, trust, hashgacha, and pain. 35 shiurim.
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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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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 expl
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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
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Beshalach - Seeing Emunah With Your Own Eyes
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the jar of Mann that was stored in the Aron.
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Shemos - Illuminating Emunah: Confronting the Nachash HaKadmoni With the Staff of Moshe Rabbeinu
In this shiur, delivered in Midreshet HaRova, Rav Burg explains how the story of Klal Yisrael in Mitzrayim is the story of rectifying the sin of Adam and Chava. The staff of Moshe Rabbeinu holds the secret of Emunah and defeating Pharaoh.
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Naso - A Lack of Faith, an Abundance of Control
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the connection between the control that a man exerts over a Kohen and bowhow thaythat controlling behavior impacts his marriage. Someone who has deep Emuna is deeply connected to themselves, firmly pl
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Shemos - Tracht Gut!
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains (based on a Sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l) why the Torah tells us that Moshe Rabbeinu was afraid despite the fact that it doesn't seem to advance the narrative of the story in any way. The wa
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Shemos - Feeling The Pain of Another Jew
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between the death of Yosef HaTzaddik and the Bracha of Moshe Rabbeinu to Yosef thay references Hashem as dwelling in the Sneh. We enter into Golus when we stop taking respo
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Vayechi - Feeling the Pain of Another
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains (based on a Torah from Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky zt"l) why Shimon and Levi were assigned to become the Rabbeim and the Sofrim of Klal Yisrael. True, they were criticized by Yaakov Avinu for being overly zeal
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Vayigash - Finding Faith in Exile
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains how the purpose of going into Golus was to bridge the gap between the Avos and Klal Yisrael in order to pass on the pristine emunah that they had achieved.
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Succos - When The Ushpizin Sit With Us In Our Pain
In this shiur, delivered via zoom to the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg explores the deeper dimension of the Ushpizin in these chaotic times. When the Ushpizin share in our pain then we can know the joy of Succos.
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Purim - The Anxiety and Faith of Tomorrow
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores our battle with Amalek. Purim is the Yom Tov that remains even after Yemos HaMashiach. Amalek is the battle that we fight in every generation. Esther HaMalka asks Achashverosh to have another Seuda t
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Adar: Increasing Joy - Finding Simcha In Pain
In this shiur, delivered in Aish HaTorah to the Chizzuk Mission, Rav Burg explores how we can increase joy even in times of great tragedy. Rav Akiva woke up his Talmidim by explaining that Esther HaMalka ruled over 127 countries because Sarah Imeinu lived for
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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 gives us a deep sense of self, the capacity to show up authentically, loyalty, joy and love.
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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 feeling Hashem's Pain for His loss. It's His house that was destroyed and only through feeling the pa
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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 shiur from Rav and Rebbetzin Burg on the topic of dignity and is followed by a Q&A on the topic of digni
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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 Yashir is the source for techias hameisim in the Torah. What is the connection between techias hame
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Tisha B'Av - Feeling Hashem's Pain
The challenge of Tisha B'Av is that we are being called upon to feel the pain of the loss of the Beis HaMikdash when we have never experienced the Beis HaMikdash. What we can feel is the pain of the shechina who longs to have a place in our world once again. F
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Parshas Vaeira - When The River Turns to Blood (The Pleasure/Pain Paradox of Addiction)
The ten Makkos are ten lessons from Hashem to the world. In this shiur Rav Burg explores Makkas Dam. What's the inner meaning of turning the Nile River into blood? When you worship the instrument, as opposed to Hashem Himself, what appears to be giving you lif
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Parshas Vayishlach - Raising Children In Pain
In the final moments of her life Rachel Imeinu called her newborn son Ben Oni. In the very same passuk Yaakov calls the child Binyamin. Why doesn't Yaakov call Binyamin by the name Rachel chose for him? We know that Yaakov loved Rachel so deeply. Why do they
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Connected - Q&A with Rav Yisrael Kaminetsky and Rav Mordechai Burg
The following is the list of questions for the Rabbonim: 1. Why do we daven for things like the coronavirus to go away, HaShem knows best? /Why is there a point to davening without any Kavana at all? Shouldn’t people focus more on quality and less of quantity
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Pesach - Bread of Faith
The main Mitzvah of Pesach is the eating of the Matzah. But why only three Matzah's and not four? Why must the Matzah have a specific taste if the Halacha is that you are yotzei without tasting the Matzah? In this shiur, based on a sicha from the Lubavitcher R
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Strengthening Our Emunah In Challenging Times: Social Distancing, Drawing Closer
As many of us find ourselves cut off from our communities, no longer able to Daven in Shuls etc... We must ask ourselves, how will we respond to this tragedy? In this shiur Rav Burg teaches us about how we can use social distancing as an opportunity to look in
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