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Elul to Yom Kippur
אלול – יום כיפורThrough the season of teshuva in calendar order: Elul, Rosh Hashana, the Ten Days, Yom Kippur.
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🔥 🔥🔥 Elul Fabrengen With Chaim Ghoori and Rav Burg 🔥 🔥 🔥
At this Motzai Shabbos Fabrengen at the Robinson home in Cedharhurst, Chaim Ghoori sang the most beautiful music and Rav Burg shared Divrei Chizuk on Teshuva. Rav Burg speaks at the 18 minute mark and then again at the one hour mark.
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Elul - Wearing The Crown Of Imperfection
We often imagine teshuvah as going backward—to the person we were before we failed, became cynical, or compromised something inside ourselves. But if teshuvah simply meant retracing our steps, why does the letter ה contain a second opening? The Gemara teaches
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Ki Teitzei / Elul - Removing the Garments of Captivity
In this shiur, delivered in Mevaseret at the first Mishmar of the year, Rav Burg speaks about Teshuva not as an accounting of our sins but as crying out for a relationship with Hashem. However, in order to do so, we must remove our garments of captivity - a su
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Elul - Meeting the King in the Field
The Alter Rebbe teaches us that the King comes out to the field to meet with us during Elul. What is the inner depth of this Mashal? Why does the King take this stroll? In this shiur, delivered at the first guest shiur in MMY, Rav Burg explains why Teshuva fee
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Rosh Hashana - The Satan Knows What You Did But He Doesn’t Know You.
The Satan has heard the shofar for thousands of years. Why should hearing it once more leave him confused? In this shiur, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains that the shofar is not a code he has failed to crack. It is the private language betwee
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Rosh Hashana - No More Hiding: How to Own What You Did Without Losing Who You Are
Why does Adam HaRishon hide after he sins—and why, when Hashem confronts him, does he immediately blame Chavah and even Hashem? Because once an aveirah feels like a revelation of who I am, the truth becomes too dangerous to face. In this shiur, delivered in M
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Rosh Hashana - This Year The Shofar Is Silent. Your Soul Is Not.
This year, the first day of Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbos, and the shofar will not be blown. For many of us, especially after October 7, that silence feels frightening. If the shofar awakens us and protects the year, why would Chazal ask us to enter Rosh Hash
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Rosh Hashana - Screaming HaMelech When It Hurts
In this shiur, delivered in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Rav Burg explains how we are meant tkto find Hashem in the most painful moments of our lives.
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Aseres Yemei Teshuva - Inviting In Your Unwanted Guests: An IFS Approach to Teshuva
We often imagine Yom Kippur as a massive cleaning operation. Get rid of the jealousy, anger, shame, and desires we would rather not admit to. Make the house presentable. Then Hashem can come in. But hachnasas orchim teaches us a different avodah. A host knows
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Aseres Yemei Teshuva - Making Meaningful and Lasting Change
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains (based on a Torah from the Tzemach Tzedek) how we can make meaningful and lasting change. Only when we recognize that the truest version of ourselves never participated in our Aveiros can we deeply r
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Aseres Yemei Teshuva / Yom Kippur - The Symmetry of Teshuva
In this shiur, delivered in Darchei Binah, Rav Burg explains Reb Zusias five aspects of Teshuva and the inner symmetry of Teshuva. To realign with Hashem we must live wholeheartedly, purposefully, lovingly, oriented towards a meaningful destination and with di
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Aish Kodesh - 4 (Shabbos Shuva)
In this shiur the Aish Kodesh presents a daring exploration of how Hashem fulfills the entire Torah, including the mitzvah of teshuva. How can Hashem do teshuva if he can't sin? How can Hashem regret something if He is perfect? The Aish Kodesh explains that Ha
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Succos - Yes But Do You Still Love Me? The Embrace of the Sukkah After Yom Kippur
If the Ananei HaKavod first surrounded the Jewish people when they left Mitzrayim, why do we celebrate Sukkos in Tishrei? The Gra explains that Sukkos commemorates the clouds that returned after the cheit ha’eigel and the forgiveness of Yom Kippur. These were
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Yom Kippur - No Jew Left Behind: The Yom Kippur that Ronnie Greenwald z"l Spent in the Lobby
Right before Kol Nidrei, we make a startling declaration: we permit ourselves to daven together with the transgressors. Chazal go even further and teach that a communal fast without the sinners of Israel is not considered a true fast. Why? Because Yom Kippur
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Yom Kippur - The 955th Gate
What happens when it feels like the door has closed? Acher hears a Bas Kol say, “Return, wayward children, except for Acher.” Neilah itself is the moment when the gates are closing. And yet Chazal teach us that this is precisely the moment not to give up. I
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Yom Kippur - You Are Innocent!
In this shiur, delivered in RBS to BMB, Rav Burg explains why Yom Kippur is a day of incredible Simcha. Even the holiest person, in the holiest place, at the holiest time might sin if it wasn't for a miracle. The Simcha is the knowledge that we are innocent!
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