Parshas Shemini
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Shemini - When We Are Merciful To The Cruel: Creating Healthy Boundaries
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explores the inner nature of the Racham bird. In today's day and age it is popular to put things in "context" in order to find compassion for those who commit atrocities. Ultimately this leads to the developme
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Shemini - Seeing the Godliness in Ourselves Even When We Have Stumbled
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explores three different Torah’s around the halachos of Kashrus in animals. The Kli Yakar explains that we must be careful about our surrounding influences. Rav Yisrael Salanter teaches that we can neve
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Shemini - Are We Serving Hashem or Serving Ourselves?
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains the inner nature of the sin of Nadav and Avihu. What does it mean that they were drunk? Why is Ahron HaKohen told to communicate the issur about being drunk in the Mishkan for all generations? There is a
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Hoshana Rabbah /Shemini Atzeres - Bringing Hashem Down to Earth
In this shiur, delivered in Yerushalayim at the Ba'er Miriam Simchas Beis HaShoeva, Rav Burg explains (based on a Sicha from the Shvilei Pinchas) the inner meaning of Succos and how we return the Shechina to this world.
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Shemini - Humbly Creating Space For Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains (based on a piece from Rav Ahron Lopiansky shlit"a) why Ahron HaKohen was afraid to draw close to the Mizbeach and why Moshe told him to "stop" being afraid. It was specifically Ahron, who did not try an
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Shemini - Living in the Present
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the connection between Nadav and Avihu being intoxicated and bringing an Eish Zara, a strange fire. Only when we accept the present moment as it is, without seeking to diminish or enhance it to avoid
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Shemini - Jealousy, Resentment, Story Telling and Fear
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between the inauguration of the Mishkan, the Cheit HaEigel and the selling of Yosef down to Mitzrayim. The fear of losing their relationship with their father caused the Shevatim
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Parshas Shmini - A Lifetime of Learning (Hesped of Rav Chaim Kanievsky zt"l)
In this shiur Rav Burg explains how the inner essence of Torah is to become an insatiably curious person. Sar HaTorah Rav Chaim zt" was such a person as Rav Burg shares many stories and lessons we can learn from the life of this great Tzaddik.
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Parshas Shemini - The Great Debate Between Fins and Scales
For thousands of years Jews have been persecuted where ever they went. As strangers in a strange land we have never been fully accepted into our host country for extended periods of time. How do we cope with this challenge? Some say that we need to close off f
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Parshas Shemini - I Can't Live Without You
Nadav and Avihu were two of the greatest Tzaddikim of their generation. In a strange story, the Torah tells us that they died upon bringing Ketores that they were not commanded to bring. Is this sin punishable by death? Why were they consumed by a fire from He
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Parshas Shemini is in Nitzotzos on Sefer Vayikra, Rav Burg's essays on the parsha.
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Parshas Shemini · Jan 7, 2021 Parshas Shemini – You Are What You Eat... So Eat Complex Carbs This shiur is generously sponsored by Eliana Schwartz liilui nishmas her grandfather Michoel ben Chana and her great grandfather Avraham ben Yisrael Tzvi To sponsor a… 
Parshas Shemini · Jan 7, 2021 Parshas Shmini – Consumed By A Strange Fire This article was written in merit of my grandmother Sarah bas Asher z"l who passed away Erev Shvii Shel Pesach at the age of 90 years old from the Corona Virus. Grandma… Keep the spark alive
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