Parshas Bereishis
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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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Bereishis - Stop Pretending and Start Living
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the story of Kayin and Hevel. We can choose to take responsibility for our relationships or we can choose blame and shame. Only through real accountability can we begin to live our true lives and liv
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Bereishis - The Beauty of the Light
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the light of creation. Sometimes what we can see makes us distant from the soulfulness of life.
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Bereishis - Making Light Out of the Darkness
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the first several pesukim of Bereishis in an effort to understand these difficult times that we are living in.
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Bereishis - Begin Again
Bereishis means in the beginning. The word Bereishis can also be understood as Beis Reishis, two beginnings. But Hashem only created the world once. Why does the Torah allude to a second beginning? In this shiur Rav Burg explains how every story has not one bu
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Parshas Bereishis - Time vs Space
The Torah starts off with the story of creation. Rashi is bothered by his. Why not start off with the first Mitzvah of the Torah? But in truth, why is Rashi bothered by this? Don't all stories start at the beginning? Learn more about the purpose of the creatio
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Parshas Bereishis is in Nitzotzos on Sefer Bereishis, Rav Burg's essays on the parsha.
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