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

Chukas - When the Well Runs Dry: Water, Loss and the Power of Words

June 16, 2026·31 min
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In this shiur, delivered in "Steve's", Rav Burg explores the moment Klal Yisrael lost Miriam and, along with her, their sense of continuity.Rav Burg delves into why their reaction to a lack of water was truly a displaced expression of grief over Miriam’s absence and how finding language for our loss can transform our struggles.When Hashem told Moshe to speak to the rock, it was a lesson for us all: we can give language to the hardest parts of life, approach them tenderly, and discover that those very places become life-giving wells.

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