Watch the several interviews I give at the Western Wall, King David’s tomb and the Churva detailing miracle stories after the ’67 war and disengagement from Gaza. This documentary will inspire you to connect more with the land and with the future Geula.
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Listen to an interview about my search for the purpose of my life and the incredible merit it is to help Torah scholars living in the Old City of Jerusalem on this #1 Jewish Podcast:
Surviving Suffering and the Search for the Meaning of Life
Please listen and share this podcast I did about surviving tragedy and suffering, the search for meaning, and how to be a good friend and support someone suffering.
Here is a clip about my late husband Gershon’s a”h secret giving as it applies to Parshas Chukas. Made for GIFT England which sends out weekly Parsha videos to encourage people to give. Please share and hope it inspires you as well!
Listen to my Talkline interview with Zev Brenner, an amazing surprise story of someone who came to WesternWallPrayers.. from the most unlikely of places! And what happened…
Interview Podcast with Eve Levy about how to go through trauma, grief and loss without it engulfing you. We are both adults and children at the same time in many ways. We can neither intellectualize away our pain nor can we wallow in it with having our adult selves lead us in the right direction. Bad things happening to good people are really just painful things happening to make us better.
Interview with Vera Kessler about some WesternWallPrayers stories and how my husband’s sudden death taught me about how everything we experience, good or painful, is to come closer to G-d since we are souls in evolution. Stop fighting your reality and accept it so that you can use your energy to grow.
(video is not so great because of the snow!)
Podcast Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vwolk9OgTn2dztVkWI7IR
How I came to seminary, the power of pure Emunah to create reality, following your highest purpose and connecting to G-d as an antidote to existential angst. The spiritual light I experienced on my husband’s deathbed, the incredible stories of hidden kindness that were revealed after his death, coming closer to G-d by emulating His character traits. The kindest form of giving is when the receiver doesn’t know s/he is being given to. Each neshama has come here to be polished.
Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah Set to Open New Building in Memory of Hidden Tzaddik and Former Executive Director Gershon Burd zt”l
Jerusalem, Israel (1/10/20) — Six years after the tragic death of its executive director Gershon Burd zt”l, Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah is proud to announce the brand-new Gershon Burd Building will open in his honor in the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City next month. Located at the former site of Rabbi Meir Schuster’s Heritage House, the Gershon Burd Building will be the first portal to the Jewish Quarter that will be seen by millions of visitors to the Holy City every year.
Already the subject of a book and planned documentary, the story of Gershon Burd went viral back in 2013 after revelations of his hidden acts of chesed surfaced in the days and weeks following his sudden passing on his 40th birthday.
“Gershon set a tremendously high bar for us,” said Rabbi Nissim Tagger, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah. “His whole life was dedicated to supporting Torah and this yeshiva. May Hashem bless his neshama and all the Torah that will be produced in the new building in his merit.”
The building was purchased for Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah by an anonymous donor whose intention is that Gershon’s children, some of whom have very little memory of their father, will grow up fulfilled by the knowledge that his name will be seen by the millions of people who pass through the Jewish Quarter each year.
Among the many hidden acts of chesed which surfaced only after his death, Gershon secretly paid for “free” helium balloons for children in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, and he created elaborate ruses to cover needy students’ yeshiva tuition and to save families and marriages by secretly paying their counseling and therapy expenses.
The Gershon Burd Building will house the new Rabbi Motty Berger Beis Medrash, the Harary & Levy Learning Centre and a new lower level classroom in honor of Rabbi Avraham Meir Levy zt”l. It will open officially on February 10th in conjunction with Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah’s Gala 30th Anniversary Dinner at Jerusalem’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Click for more details.