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שבועותKabbalas HaTorah and Rus. 20 shiurim.
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Shavuos - Before Torah, You Are for Sale: Rav Yosef, the Calf, and the Marketplace Inside the Soul
Rav Yosef celebrates Shavuos with a third-born calf and declares: “If not for this day, how many Yosefs would there be in the marketplace?” At first glance, it sounds like Rav Yosef is simply thanking Hashem that Torah made him into someone more than an avera
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Shavuos - The Greeting That Opened the Door to Moshiach
Before Boaz meets Rus, before the story of David HaMelech begins, before the roots of Moshiach are planted, Megillas Rus pauses to tell us something that seems almost unnecessary: Boaz greeted his workers with the Name of Hashem. Why does that matter? Chaza
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Shavuos - Taking Responsibility for Being Mekabel the Torah
In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the inner connection between the cutting of the grain and Shavuos. On Shavuos Hashem gives us the Torah but it is up to us to take responsibility for receiving the Torah.
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Bamidbar / Shavuos - Raising Awesome Children
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains why Shevet Dan had significantly more people than Shevet Binyamin despite the fact that Dan had only one child and Binyamin had ten. When we raise our children, especially those who have challenges,
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Shavuos - You're Not Broken
In this shiur, delivered in Aish HaTorah to the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of Matan Torah. At Matan Torah there was no echo because all of the world revealed itself to be an expression of the Dvar Hashem. Though the world reverted back
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Emor/Shavuos - When We Feel So Distant From Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in Sharfmans, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the Kohen Baal Mum. Sometimes we feel like a Kohen, chosen for a greater mission. Sometimes we feel like a Baal Mum, like we are damaged goods. A foreigner, unworthy of doing the Avo
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Shavuos - Reframing Our Relationship With Hashem
In this shiur, delivered in the Feder home in Lawrence, Rav Burg discusses (based on a Torah from the Nesivos Shalom and from the Kedushas Levi) the inner connection between the Omer and Bris Milah and why we don't make a shehecheyanu on the Mitzvah of the Ome
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Shavuos - Ladies First (A Lesson in Raising Children)
In this shiur, delivered at the first ever Chizzuk Mission shiur in Los Angeles, Rav Burg discusses why the Torah was given first to women and then afterwards to the men. Only when our children are first given the space to discover who they are can they become
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Shavuos - Restoring Hashem's Name In This World
In this shiur, delivered in the Valley in Los Angeles, Rav Burg discusses the inner nature of the Mitzvah of Yibum. Our responsibility in this world is to restore the name of Hashem which has been hidden since creation. When Avraham Avinu took on the responsib
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Shavuos - The Vulnerability of Change
In this shiur, delivered to the Chizzuk Mission on zoom, Rav Burg explores the true nature of Torah and why the nations of the world were afraid to accept the Torah. With a fixed mindset and the fear of change they were unable to let go of who they were in ord
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Shavuos - Kavod HaTorah
In this shiur, delivered in Darchei Binah, Rav Burg explains how the nature of Torah is that it changes us. Only through Torah can we move from animal to Godly and therefore Torah must play a central role in our lives. The challenge of Torah is visualizing our
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Emor / Pesach / Sefiras HaOmer / Shavuos - Transforming From Animal Into Godly
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains (based on a Sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l) the three step process of moving from Pesach into Sefiras HaOmer and ultimately Shavuos. Each step in the process is another level of engagement wit
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Shavuos - To Be A Part Of God's Nation
In this shiur, delivered in Michlala, Rav Burg explains (based on the Torah of the Nachlas Yosef) the first several Pesukim of Megillas Rus. Understanding the inner story of how Naomi came to be in Moav allows us to understand the heroism of her return to retu
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Shavuos - Finding Hashem in the Torah
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the topic of seeing the sounds by Har Sinai. The Zohar HaKadosh takes this literally. The inner message of this teaching is that Yiddishkeit needs to be something visible and visceral. We cannot teac
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Shavuos - When You Thought I Wasn't Looking
When we know deeply that we matter, that our actions matter, we are capable of doing incredible things. The Medrash teaches us that had Boaz known that his actions were being recorded he would have served Rus a fleishigs seuda. This was not because Boaz wanted
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Shavuos - To Be a Part of God's Nation
In this shiur, delivered to the Nshei of Rechavia, Rav Burg explains (based on the Torah of the Nachlas Yosef) the first several Pesukim of Megillas Rus. Understanding the inner story of how Naomi came to be in Moav allows us to understand the heroism of her r
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Shavuos - The Value of the Birchas HaTorah
In this shiur, delivered to the Nshei of Neve Shamir in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Rav Burg explores the concept of Chazal's explanation thatthe destruction of the Beis HaMidash was destroyed because of the fact that they did not make a Birchas HaTorah before davenin
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Shavuos - Essence of Polarities (followed by a Q&A with Rav and Rebbetzin Burg)
In this shiur, delivered in Aish HaTorah to the Chizzuk Mission led by Barrie Feld, Rav Burg addresses how the physical and spiritual can be fused with each other only from the perspective of the essence. This concept can be used to understand how men and wome
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Sefiras HaOmer/Shavuos - Moving From Matzah to Chametz - Developing Healthy Relationships
In this shiur Rav Burg explains why on Pesach we begin our journey with only Matzah and yet as soon as Pesach is over we return to Chametz. If Chametz is so bad why do we ever allow Chametz to be eaten? Furthermore, on Shavuos, not only do we allow for Chametz
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Shavuos: Not Just Another Average Joe
Who are we? Sometimes we take on different personalities depending on the situation we find ourselves in. On the day that we received the Torah we were given the gift to be the most authentic version of ourselves. In the shiur, Rav Burg teaches us how mindfuln
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Written divrei Torah
Parshas Naso · Jan 7, 2021 Parshas Naso / Shavuos – The Crown of the Nazir / The Crown of Torah Due to the deep nature of this Dvar Torah it is highly recommended that one print out this article before Yom Tov so that they may learn it over Shavuos. Please note… 
Parshas Bamidbar · Jan 7, 2021 Parshas Bamidbar / Shavuos: The Torah Does Not Belong To You The Sfas Emes (and many others) point out that the Parsha of Bamidbar always precedes Shavuos because there are many important messages we need to glean from the Parsha… Watch
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