Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg – Details, episodes & analysis

In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explains (based on a Sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe) how Hashem relates to us through various channels. Miracles overwhelm us. The natural world reveals Hashem but we remain a distinct entity. Only through Torah can we truly become one with Hashem. Through Torah we can learn the will and wisdom Hashem and at the same time contribute to the conversation.

In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains how Moshe Rabbeinu addresses the fears of Klal Yisrael after they heard the Klalos. When we realize that we are a fundamental part of the Klal, that we each make a unique contribution and that no Jew in truth is higher than any other we gain a deep sense of being firmly planted in the ground. Armed with the knowledge that we are safe and ok we can confront the ups and downs of the upcoming year.

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.

This shiur, delivered in Yeshivat HaKotel for the newly formed Acheinu program, explores the nature of the world pre-flood and post-flood. Pre-flood the world received its Godliness from Hashem whereas post-flood the world discovered its Godliness from within. This change was brought about through two mechanisms: 1. the flood 2. the Teiva. The flood of life destroys all of our toxic systems and the Teiva is where we discover our inner strength.

Noach would not leave the Teiva until the dove returned with an olive leaf in his mouth. But where would a dove get an olive leaf from? The Medrash provides us with two solutions: Gan Eden or Eretz Yisrael. What is the inner meaning of retrieving an olive leaf from these two places? In this shiur, Rav Burg explores how we can return to our lives after the flood of destruction. How do we know that it is safe to leave the Teiva? When we discover that our inner essence is untainted, the essential self that never participated in our lowest moments and even the essence of our lowest parts that did things we are not proud of, it gives us the feeling of safety to return to the vulnerabilities of life.

This shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, explores the specific dimensions and design of the Teiva as a model for what a Jewish home ought to look like.

In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the first several pesukim of Bereishis in an effort to understand these difficult times that we are living in.

In this shiur, delivered in the Lubat home in RBS Hey and on zoom, Rav Burg provides Divrei Chizzuk for the community. Focusing in on the spiritual nature of what it means to be a Jew, Rav Burg explores why Achdus is of such extreme importance. At the end of the shiur Rav Burg provides a step by step guide as to how to talk with our children about the war with Hamas.

This shiur, delivered at the Yeshivat HaKotel Hoshana Rabbah program, begins with three questions: 1. What's the inner nature of Hoshana Rabbah such that it has the capacity to override the psak of Yom Kippur? 2. Why does the war of Gog and Magog take place on Hoshana Rabbah? 3. What's the connection between Dovid HaMelech (the Ushpizin of the night) and Hoshana Rabbah? In this shiur Rav Burg explains how music represents the mergjng of the spiritual and the physical. Though they don't naturally go together, it is possible to synthesize the two. This is the meaning of the pleasantness of Torah and Olam Haba which are both called Noam.

In this shiur Rav Burg explores the inner essence of the Esrog. In this world there is both process and achievement. In the physical world we only value achievement but in the spiritual world he process is the goal. When we value the process we can achieve complete Simcha.