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

Yom Kippur - No Jew Left Behind: The Yom Kippur that Ronnie Greenwald z"l Spent in the Lobby

Right before Kol Nidrei, we make a startling declaration: we permit ourselves to daven together with the transgressors. Chazal go even further and teach that a communal f

Yom Kippur - The 955th Gate

What happens when it feels like the door has closed? Acher hears a Bas Kol say, “Return, wayward children, except for Acher.” Neilah itself is the moment when the gates

Aseres Yemei Teshuva - Inviting In Your Unwanted Guests: An IFS Approach to Teshuva

We often imagine Yom Kippur as a massive cleaning operation. Get rid of the jealousy, anger, shame, and desires we would rather not admit to. Make the house presentable.

Rosh Hashana - The Satan Knows What You Did But He Doesn’t Know You.

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 explai

Rosh Hashana - No More Hiding: How to Own What You Did Without Losing Who You Are

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 revel

Nitzavim - Are You Dating or Auditioning? Where Real Attraction Comes From

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 rig

Nitzavim - You Don’t Need to Become More Jewish. You Need to Become More Yourself.

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 wh

Rosh Hashana - This Year The Shofar Is Silent. Your Soul Is Not.

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.

🔥 🔥🔥 Elul Fabrengen With Chaim Ghoori and Rav Burg 🔥 🔥 🔥

At this Motzai Shabbos Fabrengen at the Robinson home in Cedharhurst, Chaim Ghoori sang the most beautiful music and Rav Burg shared Divrei Chizuk on Teshuva. Rav Burg sp

Ki Teitzei - You Have No Idea Who You’re Talking About

Why does the Torah command us to remember Miriam’s aveira? Miriam loved Moshe. She helped raise him, risked her life to save him, and never intended to demean him. Of all

Shoftim - Who Are The Judges Sitting At Your Gates?

Shoftim The Torah commands us to appoint judges and officers at our gates. The Shelah hears something deeply personal in those words. A person has seven gates—two eyes,

Elul - Wearing The Crown Of Imperfection

We often imagine teshuvah as going backward—to the person we were before we failed, became cynical, or compromised something inside ourselves. But if teshuvah simply mean

Re’eh: The Life You Don’t Know You’re Choosing

Most of us think we are making choices. Often, we are repeating patterns we learned so long ago that we have stopped calling them patterns and started calling them our pe

Eikev - The One Thing Hashem Asks of You: When Yiras Shamayim Becomes Natural

Everything is in the hands of Heaven—except yiras Shamayim. But why is fear of Heaven the one thing Hashem cannot give us? And if yirah is Hashem’s greatest treasure, how

Tu B'Av: After the Rupture: A Six-Step Path to Repairing Klal Yisrael

After a Tisha B’Av shmooze about making room for one another, a close friend asked the question that slogans about achdus often avoid: What do we do when the differences

Tisha B'Av - Is There Room For Me?

Massive charred beams from the destruction of the First Beis HaMikdash were recently uncovered in Ir David—preserved beneath melted plaster for thousands of years. The d

Tisha B'Av - Kinnah 16 - When Titus Defeats Hashem and Jewish Children Sing

Titus enters the Kodesh HaKodashim, desecrates everything sacred, and walks away untouched. The Roman armies tear through the Beis HaMikdash while the angels stand ready—

Tisha B'Av - An IFS approach to Rachel Imeinu And Redeeming Our Exiled Pain

Why is Rachel Imeinu buried on the road—outside Chevron, the resting place of the Avos and Imahos? And why is it specifically her weeping that brings Klal Yisrael home fr

Tisha B'Av - When the Beis HaMikdash Falls, Where Does Hashem Go?

What happens to our relationship with Hashem when the structure through which we experienced Him is destroyed? In this shiur, delivered to the Chizuk Mission, Rav Burg e

Devarim - When Love Feels Like Hate: The Wound Behind Tisha B’Av

How could Klal Yisrael look at everything Hashem had done for them—the miracles of Mitzrayim, Krias Yam Suf, the mann in the desert—and conclude: “Hashem hates us”? And