Parshas Shelach
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Shelach - From Sodom to Sapphire: The Inner Meaning of Techeiles
In this shmooze, delivered at the final Mishmar of the year in Mevaseret, Rav Burg explores the inner meaning of Techeiles and why Chazal connect it specifically to Avraham Avinu’s refusal to accept even “a thread or a shoelace” from the King of Sodom. Why wo
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Shelach - When Fear Sounds Like Wisdom: Yehoshua, Calev, and the Yud That Wouldn’t Disappear
The Meraglim were not simple people. They were great leaders, tzaddikim, and respected voices in Klal Yisrael. And yet, the Torah reveals a moment where fear entered the room and began to sound like wisdom. In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg
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Shelach - The Man Who Tried to Save Shabbos and Broke It
Why would Tzelafchad desecrate Shabbos for the sake of Heaven? Chazal reveal that the mekoshesh eitzim was not acting out of rebellion, but out of desperation. Klal Yisrael thought that after the decree not to enter Eretz Yisrael, perhaps they were no longer
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Shelach - Do We Desire or Despise Eretz Yisrael
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains why we must desire Eretz Yisrael and the consequences of despising it. Contempt is the greatest predictor of divorce. If we despise Eretz Yisrael there is no hope for our relationship with Hashem.
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Shelach - It's Hashem Home and We Are His Guests
In this shiur, delivered at Yeshivat HaKotel, Rav Burg explains the desire of the Meraglim, the mistake kfof the Maapilim and why adding a Yud to Yehoshua's name made all the difference. Are we guests in Hashem's home or are we the owners? How we show up to Er
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Parshas Shelach - You Are Not Fallen, You're in Process
In this short shiur, delivered at the grand banquet of Mevaseret, Rav Burg addresses the Talmidim for the final time of the year. In this shiur he defines the difference between a Malach who is an Omed and a human being who is a Mehaleich. An Omed can be defin
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Parshas Shlach - Falling Upwards
Why does Hashem send a soul down into this world if the only purpose is to return to shomayim? If an aveira is so bad then why does Hashem create aveiros to begin with? In this shiur, Rav Burg explains how sometimes what appears to be falling downwards is actu
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Parshas Shelach is in Nitzotzos on Sefer Bamidbar, Rav Burg's essays on the parsha.
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Parshas Shelach · Jan 7, 2021 Parshas Shelach: The Gift of Israel I always found it ironic that the logo for the Israeli ministry of tourism was the meraglim returning to the dessert with the enormous grapes of Eretz Yisrael. Baruch… 
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