Yomim tovim
Tisha B'Av
תשעה באבChurban, galus, and what we are mourning. 27 shiurim.
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Tisha B'Av - Is There Room For Me?
Massive charred beams from the destruction of the First Beis HaMikdash were recently uncovered in Ir David—preserved beneath melted plaster for thousands of years. The discovery raises a powerful question: Why preserve the ruins? Chazal teach that we are not
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Tisha B'Av - Kinnah 16 - When Titus Defeats Hashem and Jewish Children Sing
Titus enters the Kodesh HaKodashim, desecrates everything sacred, and walks away untouched. The Roman armies tear through the Beis HaMikdash while the angels stand ready—and Hashem appears to remain silent. Evil does not merely attack. It appears to win. But
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Tisha B'Av - An IFS approach to Rachel Imeinu And Redeeming Our Exiled Pain
Why is Rachel Imeinu buried on the road—outside Chevron, the resting place of the Avos and Imahos? And why is it specifically her weeping that brings Klal Yisrael home from exile? In this shiur, delivered at Kever Rachel to the campers of Sdei Chemed, we expl
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Tisha B'Av - When the Beis HaMikdash Falls, Where Does Hashem Go?
What happens to our relationship with Hashem when the structure through which we experienced Him is destroyed? In this shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg explains that the loss of the Beis HaMikdash was far more than the destruction of a buildin
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Devarim - When Love Feels Like Hate: The Wound Behind Tisha B’Av
How could Klal Yisrael look at everything Hashem had done for them—the miracles of Mitzrayim, Krias Yam Suf, the mann in the desert—and conclude: “Hashem hates us”? And why did one night of misplaced tears become a night of crying for generations? In this sh
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Tisha B'Av (Kinnah 45) - It's Time to Get Up!
In this short shmooze, Rav Burg explains how we transition from the morning of Tisha B'Av where we sit in Aveilus to the afternoon of Tisha B'Av where we prepare to greet Mashiach.
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Tisha B'Av - Stare At The Devastation If You Want To Find The Light
In this shmooze, delivered in NCSY Kollel on Tisha B'Av morning, Rav Burg explains that the darkness IS the light but you have to be willing to stare unflinchingly at the darkness to see it.
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Tisha B'Av - Kamtza and Bar Kamtza:The Destruction of the Self
In this shmooze, delivered at NCSY Kollel Mishmar, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza.
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Tisha B'Av - Searching for the Soul of Destruction
In this shiur, delivered worldwide On Tisha B'Av to the Chizzuk Mission, Rav Burg explores the relationship between Shlomo HaMelech, Yirmiyahu and Moshe Rabbeinu. While Shlomo HaMelech and Moshe Rabbeinu were on the 49th level of understanding, through mournin
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Tisha B'Av - From Walls That Protect Us To Walls To Walls That Keep Us Imprisoned
In this shiur, delivered on Tisha B'Av in NCSY Kollel, Rav Burg explains the nature of walls. Walls ought designed to protect our dignity. But when we live with a scarcity mentality, a mentality of fear, we build walls that imprison us from ourselves and from
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Devarim / Tisha B'Av - The Seventy Languages of Finding God Everywhere
In this shiur, delivered in NCSY Kollel (Mishmar), Rav Burg explains how Torah transformed Moshe Rabbeinu's ability to speak. Specifically before Tisha B'Av we must learn the Torah of seventy languages so that we can discover Godliness in exile.
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Tisha B'Av - Feeling Hashem's Pain
In this shiur, delivered at NCSY Kollel on Tisha B'Av, Rav Burg explains how we are all very busy trying to tap into our own loss on Tisha B'Av but what about feeling Hashem's Pain for His loss. It's His house that was destroyed and only through feeling the pa
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Tisha B'Av - The Five Stages of Destruction
In this shiur, delivered at NCSY Michlelet to both TJJ and Michlelet girls, Rav Burg explains how each one of the five tragedies that occurred on Tisha B'Av further our destruction until we are completely annihilated. But, at the point of complete annihilation
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Tisha B'Av - Eli Tzion (kinnah 45) - Grief is Unexpressed Love
This kinnah, the last of the kinnos, is a kinnah of hope. It speaks about the pain of a woman in labor and the pain of a young bride who lost her husband. The cry of labor is a cry that understands that while this may be exceptionally painful it is for an ulti
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Tisha B'Av - Feeling Hashem's Pain
The challenge of Tisha B'Av is that we are being called upon to feel the pain of the loss of the Beis HaMikdash when we have never experienced the Beis HaMikdash. What we can feel is the pain of the shechina who longs to have a place in our world once again. F
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Tisha B'Av - Yearning for Yearning
Tisha B'Av is a challenging time. We are asked to mourn for a Beis HaMikdash we have never seen. We say kinnos that are difficult to understand and that contain references with which we are unfamiliar. We live in an age where we are so blessed to have so much.
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Kinnah 45 - Eli Tzion - Broken, Not Destroyed
Kinnah 45, the final Kinnah that we say on Tisha B'Av is one of the most beautiful of all of the Kinnos as it is sung to a haunting and beautiful melody. In this short shiur, Rav Burg explains why we say this Kinnah standing up, why the Kinnah is anonymous an
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Tisha B'Av - How We Lost The Soul of Yidishkeit
This shiur, delivered on NCSY Kollel, explores a machlokes between Rav Yochanan ben Zakkai and Rav Akiva that shaped the last two thousand years of history and informs us as to why so many of us feel totally disconnected from our Judaism.
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Tisha B'Av: Finding Redemption Within the Exile
How can we understand the statement of Chazal that those who mourn the Beis HaMikdash will merit to see it in joy. Have not the Tzaddikim mourned? Why haven't they merited to see the Beis HaMikdash rebuilt? How can we mourn something we have never experienced?
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Tisha B'Av - Kinnah 30 - For The Love of God
Rav Burg explains how the Beis HaMikdash is an expression of Hashem's love for Klal Yisrael. Its destruction is the concealment of God's love.
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From Tisha B'Av to Tu B'Av: Restoring the Light to the Darkness
The two greatest Yomim Tovim of the year are Yom Kippur and Tu B'Av. The Gemara says that Tu B'Av is even greater than Yom Kippur. What makes Tu B'Av so special. Most of us don't even know what Tu B'Av is all about. In this shiur, delivered in Michlelet NCSY,
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Tisha B'Av - Disconnect to Connect
It is difficult to feel the pain and the loss of Tisha B'Av. For so many of us we sit on the floor, read Eicha, say Kinnos and feel nothing. How can we make our Tisha B'Av more meaningful? How can we feel a sense of authentic yearning for the Beis Hamikdash?
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Tisha B'Av: Words, Pain, Hope.
We are in so much pain. We have no idea how to express that pain. We need words to express our pain so we can truly feel it. Only then can we have hope.
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Tisha B'Av: A Torah of Loneliness
On Tisha B'Av we learn the Torah of brokenness. The Torah of those who have not yet found Hashem in their Yiddishkeit. This is the Torah of Galus and it is appropriate for Tisha B'AV.
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Churban Reimagined: Destruction or Birth
Chizuk Mission · Jul 2026 · 41:14Tisha B'Av (August 13, 2024)
Chizuk Mission · Jan 2025 · 43:55Tisha B'Av The Saddest Day ...but
DropsOfLight · Jul 2020 · 1:21Keep the spark alive
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