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

July 23, 2021 Parshas Vaeschanan - Hearing the Voice of God, Not the Echo
The passuk in this week's Parsha tells us that at the giving of the Torah the voice of God did not cease. The Medrash explains this to mean that when Hashem spoke there was no echo. Of all the miracles that God could have performed at Har Sinai, what is the significance of the fact that the voice of God did not echo? In this shiur, delivered at Mishmar on NCSY Kollel, Rav Burg explores the value of building a personal relationship with Hashem.
32 min
July 18, 2021 Parshas Devarim - Seventy Languages, One Soul
In this shiur, delivered on NCSY Kollel, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning as to why Moshe Rabbeinu translated the Torah into seventy languages as Klal Yisrael is on the verge of entering into Eretz Yisrael.
27 min
July 18, 2021 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 and the duality of the imagery that is expressed within.
12 min
July 18, 2021 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.
36 min
July 18, 2021 Parshas Matos/Masei - Aharon HaKohen's Connection to the Nine Days
In this shiur Rav Burg discusses how Ahron HaKohen sees through to the essence of every single Jew and in that way brings them closer to Hashem.
38 min
July 18, 2021 Becoming a Baalas Chesed
In this shiur, delivered on Michlelet NCSY, Rav Burg discusses how we can become people who inculcate chesed into our lives.
50 min
June 15, 2021 Parshas Korach - Never Give Up On A Jew.
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48 min
June 15, 2021 Parshas Chukas - Gentle Chinuch
In one of the most perplexing stories in Chumash, Moshe Rabbeinu is told by Hashem to speak to the rock in order to bring forth water so that Klal Yisrael could have what to drink. Rather than following Hashem's intrsuctions, Moshe Rabbeinu hits the rock and loses the opportunity to lead Klal Yisrael into Eretz Yisrael. In the shiur, Rav Burg explains how Moshe Rabbeinu made this mistake and the importance of not labeling ourselves, our childrem, our talmidim etc...
50 min
June 03, 2021 Parshas Shlach - Falling Upwards
Why does Hashem send a soul down into this world if the only purpose is to return to shomayim? If an aveira is so bad then why does Hashem create aveiros to begin with? In this shiur, Rav Burg explains how sometimes what appears to be falling downwards is actually falling upwards. Within some of the worst moments of our lives, within some of our worst decisions, there is an opportunity to get down to our bare essence and discover a dimension of self that we never knew existed. In these moments we come to realize that we have been falling upwards the entire time.
43 min
June 01, 2021 Dignity in Focus
Rav Burg addressed the winner of the Tomer Devorah DIF (Dignity in Focus) Challenge. In this shiur Rav Burg explained the inner nature of dignity and why it plays such an important role in our lives.
34 min