Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg

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Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg episodes

August 15, 2024 Shabbos Nachamu - Golus As An Expression of Unconditional Love
In this shiur, delivered at the final Mishmar of NCSY Kollel, Rav Burg explains (based on a Torah from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l) the inner nature of Golus. Once we understand that Hashem has only turned away from us in order to deepen our relationship we can develop our resilience as we journey through the last moments of this painful exile.
35 min
August 13, 2024 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 mourning the loss of the Beis HaMikdash Yirmiyahu reveals to us the fiftieth dimension and thus the building of the Beis HaMikdash.
44 min
August 13, 2024 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 others. When we build healthy walls that protect our dignity and invite each other in, then we will merit to rebuild the walls of Yerushalayim Habenuyah.
40 min
August 08, 2024 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.
35 min
August 01, 2024 Matos / Masei - Having the Hard Conversations to Bring Mashiach
In this shiur, delivered at Mishmar in NCSY Kollel, Rav Burg explains how the final story of Sefer Bamidbar is the climax of the story of how brothers and sisters make peace. The entire Torah can be seen as a story of avoiding the hard conversations and the strife that follows. If we are going to bring Mashiach we need to put our real feelings on the table and create real peace.

38 min
July 26, 2024 Pinchas - The Vulnerability of Desire
In this shiur, delivered on NCSY Kollel during Mishmar, Rav Burg explains how Hashem calls out to us through our desires. When we know our desires we know our mission and our talents but will we say Naar Anochi and run away from our mission or will we step up to the task and actualize our potential?
38 min
July 24, 2024 Three weeks / Shiva Asar B'Tammuz - The Process of Destroying the Beis HaMikdash
In this shiur, delivered in Neve Shamir, Rav Burg explains the inner dimension of the five events that occurred on Shiva Asar B'Tammuz and how each event is another stage in the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash. When we understand each stage of destruction, we also understand how we can rebuild.
1 hr 3 min
July 19, 2024 Balak - The Transformation We Need To Bring Mashiach
In this shiur, delivered in NCSY Michlelet, Rav Burg explains why of all people, it is Bilaam HaRasha who transmits the prophecy about the coming of Mashiach. Only when we bring Hashem into the lowest dimensions of our world, when the world is completely transformed into a Dirah B'Tachtonim will we merit the coming of Mashiach.

43 min
July 11, 2024 Chukas - Making Meaningful and Lasting Change
In this shiur, delivered to NCSY Kollel for the first Mishmar of the summer, Rav Burg explains how we can make meaning and lasting changes in our lives. When we change our core belief system we change our focus and our narratives which leads to new emotions and new actions.

37 min
June 02, 2024 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 Omer. While seeing Hashem in the miraculous can jump start a relationship we have only learned about Hashem, we have not yet built a relationship with Hashem. When we find Hashem in nature, we shift our relationship from one of action to one of presence. On Shavuos, through the Korban Todah we have the best of both worlds.

47 min