Parshas Nitzavim
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Nitzavim - Are You Dating or Auditioning? Where Real Attraction Comes From
Dating has a strange way of pulling us out of ourselves. Instead of meeting the person across from us, we begin watching ourselves through their eyes: Am I saying the right thing? Do they want me? The Baal HaTurim finds a remez to Elul in the words אֶת לְבָבְ
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Nitzavim - You Don’t Need to Become More Jewish. You Need to Become More Yourself.
Most of us assume that Yiddishkeit is something being asked of us from the outside. And when it feels difficult, we take that difficulty as proof that it is not really who we are. But the Torah says something very different: “Ki karov eilecha hadavar me’od”—i
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Nitzavim - Achieving the Impossible
In this inaugural shiur in Tomer Devorah Rav Burg explains how the Torah may in fact be in the Heavens and if it were we could ascend to the Heavens to learn it. The Torah (and Teshuva) may appear to be distant but it is in fact closer than we can possibly ima
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Nitzavim / Rosh Hashanah - The Antidote to Fear: A Deep Sense of Belonging
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains how Moshe Rabbeinu addresses the fears of Klal Yisrael after they heard the Klalos. When we realize that we are a fundamental part of the Klal, that we each make a unique contribution and that no Jew
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Nitzavim - Make Good Choices
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfman's, Rav Burg explains why we need to be told by Moshe Rabbeinu not to choose death. How many of us choose a path that leads to death because of poor solutions that create further problems?
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Parshas Nitzavim - Growing Up, Choosing Hashem
In this week's Parsha, Moshe Rabbeinu, for the first time in history, renews the Bris between Klal Yisrael and Hashem. Up until now it was always Hashem that made a Bris with humanity/Klal Yisrael. Why the change? Based on an essay from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks ob
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Parshas Nitzavim is in Nitzotzos on Sefer Devarim, Rav Burg's essays on the parsha.
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