Parshas Beshalach
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Beshalach - Healthy Attachment to Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains why Pharaoh wept when the Jews left Mitzrayim.
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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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Beshalach / Yud Shevat - March Foward, The Sea Will Split!
In this shiur, delivered at the English Speaking Chabad of Neve Shamir in honor of Yud Shevat, Rav Burg explains why the Friediker Rebbe and the Lubavitcher Rebbe held the radically optimistic belief that if you just keep marching foward the sea will surely sp
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Beshalach - Remembering Amalek
In this shiur, delivered in the Valley in Los Angeles, Rav Burg explains the inner workings of how we can leave our personal Mitzrayim and yet still be stuck before we arrive at our personal Har Sinai. Truth can defeat falsehood but it cannot necessarily overc
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Beshalach - When Pharaoh Converts To Judaism
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explores three dimensions to the story of Pharaoh at the Yam Suf. 1. The simple explanation that Pharaoh was killed. 2. The deeper explanation that Pharaoh was spared and suffered as he watched the devastation
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Beshalach - The Sea Splits For Those Who Expect The Miraculous
In this shiur, delivered at Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains how the miraculous only occurs for those who see themselves as worthy of a miracle. Klal Yisrael at the banks of the Yam Suf saw themselves as idolaters and therefore were unfit for a miracle to occur
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Beshalach / Tu B'Shvat - Resurrecting the Hopeless
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the inner connection between Beshalach and Tu B'Shvat. The Navi Yechezkel spoke about three levels of hopelessness and how through the Ohr of Torah, we can bring the dry bones back to life. So too on
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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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Parshas Beshalach - Transforming Pharaoh
Why is the name of the Parsha Beshalach when there are so many aspects of the Parsha (Krias Yam Suf, the descent of the Mann and Milchemes Amalek) that seem to be more important? Why is it that Pharaoh needs to compel us to leave Mitzrayim? In this shiur, Rav
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Parshas Beshalach - Raising Children in Exile
Chazal tell us that it was the children who recognized Hashem at Kerias Yam Suf and declared זה אלי ואנויהו, this is my God and I will glorify him. How did the children recognize Hashem? In this shiur Rav Burg explores the Gemara (Sotah 11b) in depth giving us
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Parshas Beshalach - Do you dwell on the land or live in the sea?
As Klal Yisrael is redeemed from Mitzrayim we walked through the sea on dry land. But if we are walking through dry land are we really in the sea? The Lubavitcher Rebbe explains that there are two types of people, those who dwell on the land and those who liv
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Parshas Beshalach - Just Keep Swimming
Klal Yisrael finds themselves trapped between the oncoming Egyptian army and the banks of the Yam Suf. An argument ensues. What should we do? One camp says they will never take us alive. Another says let us surrender. Another argues that we should fight till t
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Parshas Beshalach is in Nitzotzos on Sefer Shemos, Rav Burg's essays on the parsha.
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