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

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.

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.

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.

In this shiur Rav Burg explores the difference between shame and guilt as it relates to the aveiros that we have done.

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 itse...

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 fr...

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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 bro...

When confronting our enemies donkey that is being crushed under its burden we are commanded to help unload the donkey. The lessons of the Torah are timeless. What is the inner teaching of this halacha? How does it impact our every day lives? In this shiur Rav Burg teaches us foundational ideas from the Baal Shem Tov about how we confront the material world. Knowing that the physical world is not o...

Chazal tell us that it was the children who recognized Hashem at Kerias Yam Suf and declared זה אלי ואנויהו, this is my God and I will glorify him. How did the children recognize Hashem? In this shiur Rav Burg explores the Gemara (Sotah 11b) in depth giving us amazing educational insights into how we can raise our children not only to survive but even to thrive in Golus.

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 bro...

What is the inner significance of dipping a group of hyssops into the blood of the Korban Pesach and spreading it on our door posts? How does this protect us from the Malach HaMaves? Somehow the Malach HaMaves skips over our homes because of this procedure and this is why the Yom Tov is called Pesach. But how does this name capture the essence of the Chag? In this shiur, Rav Burg addresses these q...

The ten Makkos are ten lessons from Hashem to the world. In this shiur Rav Burg explores Makkas Dam. What's the inner meaning of turning the Nile River into blood? When you worship the instrument, as opposed to Hashem Himself, what appears to be giving you life turns to destruction.

Speaking at a Mevaseret Melava Malka to the talmidim that completed all of Sefer Bereishis (with shnayim mikra viechad targum) Rav Burg delves into the secret of the burning bush and the discovery of self that occurs in the lowest moments of exile.

Yaakov blesses Yehuda that his brothers will submit to him. What is the significance of this submission? In this shiur Rav Burg explains the complexity of being the commanded (being called to duty) and making Yiddishkeit our own. 

After being told that Yosef is still alive, Yaakov’s spirit is revived when he sees the agalos, the wagons, that Yosef sent for Yaakov. But Yaakov does not travel to Mitzrayim in those agalos. The Torah tells us that Yaakov travels to Mitzrayim in the agalos that Pharaoh sent for him. Why does Pharaoh send down agalos if Yosef had sent agalos as well. Why is Yaakov’s spirit revived when he sees Yo...

Yud Tes Kislev Fabrengen in Shaalvim. Rav Burg begins speaking at the 27 and a half minute mark and then again at the one hour and twenty nine minute mark on the topic of how Chassidus allows us to make fundamental and long lasting changes in our lives.

The Torah tells us that Yitzchak loved Eisav because he was tricked into thinking that Eisav was a Tzaddik. However, we also know that Yitzchak was well aware of who Eisav truly was. What did Chazal really mean? In this shiur, Rav Burg explains how we can parent our challenging children - rather than looking only at their actions we need to look at why they are behaving the way they are behaving....

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 o...

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this shiur, delivered on Michlelet NCSY, Rav Burg discusses how we can become people who inculcate chesed into our lives.

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