Parshas Terumah
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Terumah - 🔥 🔥 🔥 Authentic and Imperfect Jews
In this shmooze, delivered at Mishmar in Mevaseret, Rav Burg explains why the Aron contains a dimension of "shtus". Even when our insides have an element of shtus in them it does not mean that we are lacking authenticity.
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Terumah - Filling In The Empty Spaces
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the lessons we learn from the Avnei Miluim.
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Terumah - "I" Am Working On Myself
In this shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg explains the difference between becoming and being when it comes to working on ourselves. The problem is that our ego stands in the way of our personal growth.
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Terumah - Transforming The World One Donation At A Time
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains why this Parsha is named Terumah and not Mishkan. To make a lasting and meaningful change in this world, the transformation needs to come from below. As we become givers, the world becomes a dwelling pla
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Terumah - When We Hate the Ones We Love
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the Keruvim standing in an intimate embrace as the Beis HaMikdash is being destroyed. The secret of Sinas Chinam is that we only hate because we love.
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Terumah - Discovering the Essence in Every Mitzvah
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains (based on the Kedushas Levi) why the Aron containing the Luchos is mentioned twice and why the rods in the Aron were not allowed to be removed. The Luchos represent the essence of our relationship wit
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Terumah - Entering the Inner Sanctum
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explores (based on a piece from Rav Moshe Weinberger) how Yiras Shomayim is the outer sanctum and Torah is the inner sanctum. One must enter the outer sanctum first, where we feel the pain of exile, before we ent
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Terumah - Building a Relationship with Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains how the building of the Mishkan represents three stages in the development of our relationship with Hashem. 1. We live for the Other. 2. Intimacy means exclusivity 3. We give our hearts to the One
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Parshas Terumah - Holy Foolishness: Achieving the Impossible
Yaakov Avinu took with him the Atzei Shitim from Eretz Canaan to Mitzrayim in order the Klal Yisrael should have the wood in order to build the Mishkan and the Aron. Why did he not just instruct them to take the Atzei Shitim from Mitzrayim? Or better yet, just
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Parshas Terumah: Reaching Out To God Who Is Reaching Out To Us
What is the main function of the Beis Hamikdash? The Rambam says that it is for us to bring Korbanos. The Ramban says that the Aron was the most important vessel in the Beis Hamikdash. What is the deeper meaning behind this Machlokes? In this shiur, Rav Burg t
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Parshas Terumah is in Nitzotzos on Sefer Shemos, Rav Burg's essays on the parsha.
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