Parshas Bo
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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 - Living In Paralyzing Darkness
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of light and darkness. Light does not mean illumination. It means orientation and purpose. When we live in the darkness we are disoriented and without purpose we have no movement.
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Bo - Bringing Mashiach: Letting Go Of Expectations, Holding On To Hope
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of Matzah and why Klal Yisrael wasn't prepared to leave Mitzrayim. Expectations often come from ego. They come from our need to control. Only Hashem can bring redemption and as long
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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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Bo - The Restoration of Hope
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains why Klal Yisrael prostrated themselves after hearing the Mitzvah of Korban Pesach. Only when Klal Yisrael has their hope for a future restored can they truly be mekabel on themselves to serve Hashem.
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Bo - Slapping Pharaoh in the Face
In this shiur, delivered in Mevaseret, Rav Burg explains why only after Makkas Choshech did Pharaoh and Moshe become angry with one another. What was the value in Moshe Rabbeinu slapping Pharaoh in the face? The ten Makkos are meant to rectify the ten dimensio
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Bo - Midnight Madness: The Revelation of the Essence
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains (based on a Sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l) why Makkas Bechoros specifically happens at midnight and why Klal Yisrael needed a special protection during this plague. Hashem chooses Klal Yisrael
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Bo - Pharaoh vs Moshe: Who Will Leave Mitzrayim
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the Machlokes between Pharaoh and Moshe as to who will leave Mitzrayim. The Pharaohs in our lives teach us that we are unworthy of Kabbalas HaTorah. Moshe Rabbeinu's response teaches us how to confro
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Bo - Analyzing the Three Sons
Three of the four sons in the Haggadah are mentioned in Parshas Bo. In this shiur, delivered at the Hakshiva Bnei Aliyah program, Rav Burg explores the three sons and what they mean to us as parents and Mechanchim.
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Parshas Bo - Becoming a Shliach for Hashem
The Halachos of Shlucho Shel Adam Kamoso is learned out from the Parsha of Korban Pesach. Why specifically this Parsha? Moshe Rabbeinu is the ultimate Shliach of Hashem and yet he is at first hesitant to accept the mission. Why? In this shiur, Rav Burg expla
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Parshas Bo / Pesach - How Did We Get Here?
What is the inner significance of dipping a group of hyssops into the blood of the Korban Pesach and spreading it on our door posts? How does this protect us from the Malach HaMaves? Somehow the Malach HaMaves skips over our homes because of this procedure and
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Parshas Bo - Midnight Madness
The last plague, the slaying of the Egyptian first born children, is unique in that there is a heavy emphasis on the timing of the plague. What is the inner significance of the fact that Makkas Bechoros takes place at exactly midnight? In this shiur, Rav Burg
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Parshas Bo is in Nitzotzos on Sefer Shemos, Rav Burg's essays on the parsha.
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