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

Question: With Purim right around the corner, are girls allowed to get drunk when they’re in a place with only girls and they know they aren’t going out at all? What is the role of drinking for women in general on Purim?

Every one of us has challenges in life. Some live with an air of negativity while others somehow are able to see the positive in even the most difficult situations. In this shiur, Rav Burg teaches us how to have beautiful eyes and see Hashem in even our most difficult times.

Question: I know you said on the Nitzotzos Shabbaton that our hashkafa should be relevant in our decisions but I feel like often I get excited by things that I “know” don’t matter, like shoes/shopping etc. How can I make my hashkafa translate into my actions in every day life?

Based on Rav Wolbe's classic Alei Shur Rav Burg explores Shaar Shlishi - the chapter that deals with knowing yourself.    

In this shiur, based on a maamar from the Tzemach Tzedek, Rav Burg explores the concept of aveiros becoming merits for us through appropriate Teshuva. In the end, if we don't become deeply ashamed of who we are, our aveiros will teach us things about ourselves that we never knew before  

Based on Rav Wolbe's classic Alei Shur Rav Burg explores Shaar Shlishi - the chapter that deals with knowing yourself.   

Question: Why did Hashem create us and put in a physical world if the goal is just to be close to Him? Why not just create us in a different realm where we are already elevated?