Parshas Chukas
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Chukas - The Golden Calf Was A Panic Attack, Now Mom Has To Clean Up The Mess
Why do Chazal connect the Parah Adumah, which purifies from tumas meis, to the sin of the Golden Calf? In this shiur, delivered in "Steve's", Rav Burg explore the Cheit HaEigel not simply as primitive idolatry, but as a deep human collapse in the face of abse
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Chukas - When the Well Runs Dry: Water, Loss and the Power of Words
In this shiur, delivered in "Steve's", Rav Burg explores the moment Klal Yisrael lost Miriam and, along with her, their sense of continuity. Rav Burg delves into why their reaction to a lack of water was truly a displaced expression of grief over Miriam’s abs
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Chukas - Making Meaningful and Lasting Change
In this shiur, delivered to NCSY Kollel for the first Mishmar of the summer, Rav Burg explains how we can make meaning and lasting changes in our lives. When we change our core belief system we change our focus and our narratives which leads to new emotions an
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Parshas Chukas - Gentle Chinuch
In one of the most perplexing stories in Chumash, Moshe Rabbeinu is told by Hashem to speak to the rock in order to bring forth water so that Klal Yisrael could have what to drink. Rather than following Hashem's intrsuctions, Moshe Rabbeinu hits the rock and l
The sefer
Parshas Chukas is in Nitzotzos on Sefer Bamidbar, Rav Burg's essays on the parsha.
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Written divrei Torah
Parshas Chukas · Jan 7, 2021 Parshas Chukas – Jewish Authenticity A certain chassid, let's call him Yankel, would travel to be by his Rebbe for the Yomim Noraim. While at his job Yankel would wear a brown uniform with his name on his… 
Parshas Chukas · Jan 7, 2021 Parshas Chukas – Be'er Miriam: Rebel Against Despair, Never Give Up Hope This week's Dvar Torah is sponsored in memory of Neshama Tehila bas Chana v'Yitzchak whose first yahrtzeit was this week. If ever there was a woman, a family, who… Keep the spark alive
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