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

March 11, 2022 (1/2) If I am I because I am I...
In this shiur Rav Burg explores the social nature of mankind and how we are impacted by our surroundings.
32 min
March 11, 2022 Parshas Vayikra - A Covenant of Salt
In this week's parsha the Torah places serious emphasis on the role of salting the korbanos. What is the inner meaning of salt? Why is it so central to our service of Hashem?
In this shiur Rav Burg teaches how salt teaches us three fundamental lessons in building our relationship with Hashem.
34 min
March 11, 2022 Purim - Experiencing Joy By Connecting to Absence
In this shiur Rav Burg explores how true completion can only emerge from the lack of completion. How grief is unexpressed love. How we can discover wholeness only within the lack. This is the path to true joy and connection to Hashem.
46 min
March 11, 2022 Purim - The 50th Gate, Going Beyond Knowing
In this inspiring shiur, Rav Burg explains how on Purim we have the capacity to reach the highest level of understanding Hashem, the 50th level of Binah.
36 min
March 04, 2022 It's Not The Bite Of The Snake That Kills You, It's The Venom ~ Baal Shem Tov (Part 2)
In this shiur Rav Burg teaches us how if we stay in healthy regret and away from shame our failures can help us become our best self.
41 min
March 02, 2022 It's Not The Bite Of The Snake That Kills You, It's The Venom. ~ Baal Shem Tov (Part 1)
In this shiur Rav Burg explores the difference between shame and guilt as it relates to the aveiros that we have done.
42 min
March 02, 2022 Parshas Pekudei - Furnish Your Home or House Your Furniture
Moshe Rabbeinu instructs Betzalel to build the keilim of the Mishkan before building the Mishkan itself. Betzalel argues with Moshe that before we can furnish the house surely we must build the house itself. What was their disagreement? How does this machlokes inform our own avodas Hashem? In this shiur, Rav Burg explores the difference between what creates a relationship and the relationship itself.
33 min
February 24, 2022 Parshas Vayakhel - Built a Golden Calf? Build a Mishkan!
The Torah repeats the building of the Mishkan. First we are told the blue prints of the Mishkan and then we are told how it is actually built. Why does the Torah need to tell us both? In between the blue prints and the building was the sin of the Golden Calf. The building of the Mishkan is a response to this terrible aveira. In this shiur Rav Burg explores three fundamental lessons we can learn from the building of the Mishkan and how we can respond to the aveiros in our own lives.
48 min
January 27, 2022 There Is Nothing More Whole Than A Broken Heart - Part 3
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48 min
January 27, 2022 There Is Nothing More Whole Than A Broken Heart - Part 2
In this shiur Rav Burg explores the nature of wholeness and brokenness. Why did the soul need to come down to this world only to return to Hashem? Why not simply stay in shomayim to begin with? Why did Adam and Chava need to be separated if they were just going to be told to become one flesh? It seems that there is something missing in our initial state of wholeness. Something that needs to be broken in order to become whole.
48 min