HeyJaredNitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Shiurim and Divrei Chizzuk from our Mashpia Rav Mordechai Burg
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Rosh Hashana - The Satan Knows What You Did But He Doesn’t Know You. (opens the original)
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The Satan has heard the shofar for thousands of years. Why should hearing it once more leave him confused? In this shiur, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains that the shofar is not a code he has failed to crack. It is the private language between Hashem and Klal Yisrael—a language that can be heard from the outside but understood only from within the relationship. A prosecutor may know everything we have done and still not know who we are. Through the tekios demeyushav and tekios d
Rosh Hashana - No More Hiding: How to Own What You Did Without Losing Who You Are (opens the original)
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Why does Adam HaRishon hide after he sins—and why, when Hashem confronts him, does he immediately blame Chavah and even Hashem? Because once an aveirah feels like a revelation of who I am, the truth becomes too dangerous to face. In this shiur, delivered in MMY, Rav Burg explores the difference between guilt and shame, why vidui must be spoken aloud, and why Hashem begins with the gentle question of Ayeka—“Where are you?” Teshuvah does not ask us to despise ourselves. It gives us the safety to t
Nitzavim - Are You Dating or Auditioning? Where Real Attraction Comes From (opens the original)
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Dating has a strange way of pulling us out of ourselves. Instead of meeting the person across from us, we begin watching ourselves through their eyes: Am I saying the right thing? Do they want me? The Baal HaTurim finds a remez to Elul in the words אֶת לְבָבְךָ וְאֶת לְבַב—“your heart and a heart.” By leaving out the word זַרְעֶךָ, the identity of that second heart remains open. The pasuk is revealing something about the mysterious way one heart reaches another Drawing on Rebbe Nachman’s teachin
Nitzavim - You Don’t Need to Become More Jewish. You Need to Become More Yourself. (opens the original)
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Most of us assume that Yiddishkeit is something being asked of us from the outside. And when it feels difficult, we take that difficulty as proof that it is not really who we are. But the Torah says something very different: “Ki karov eilecha hadavar me’od”—it is already exceedingly close, in your mouth and in your heart. In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg explores the startling idea that Torah is not foreign to the Jewish soul. It may become buried beneath habit, shame, or the
Rosh Hashana - This Year The Shofar Is Silent. Your Soul Is Not. (opens the original)
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This year, the first day of Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbos, and the shofar will not be blown. For many of us, especially after October 7, that silence feels frightening. If the shofar awakens us and protects the year, why would Chazal ask us to enter Rosh Hashanah without it? This shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission before Rosh Hashana, explores the difference between יום תרועה and זכרון תרועה and what becomes possible when there is no sound coming from outside of us. Drawing on the Rambam, t
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