http://blog.thefoundationstone.org Learn & discover the Divine prophecies with Rabbi Simcha Weinberg from The Foundation Stone Blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:26:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/13/the-music-of-halacha-bishul-a-matter-of-time/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/13/the-music-of-halacha-bishul-a-matter-of-time/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:17:46 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6397 We began our discussion of the laws of cooking on Shabbat in, “Cooking With the Miraculous.” When we speak of the miraculous we are speaking of that which is otherworldly. When we speak of the otherworldly we not only speak of that which we cannot understand or explain, we are also speaking of that which is [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/13/the-music-of-halacha-bishul-a-matter-of-time/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/12/return-to-the-future/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/12/return-to-the-future/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:34:59 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6148 “But to return, if I may use the expression, to the future…(J.B.S. Haldane).” Haven’t we been here before? Have we not experienced Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Succot, many times? Have we not dreamed of a fresh start year after year? How will this year be different? “Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/12/return-to-the-future/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/12/untried-means/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/12/untried-means/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:32:31 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6145 “It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means (Francis Bacon).” I use the same Succah every year, the same poles, the same canvas, the same support beams, and the same s’chach, but I always end up needing to add [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/12/untried-means/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/12/the-storm-of-progress/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/12/the-storm-of-progress/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:41:24 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6142 My wing is poised to beat but I would gladly return home were I to stay to the end of days I would still be this forlorn – Gershom Scholem, “Greetings from Angelus” [tr. Richard Sieburth} A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/12/the-storm-of-progress/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/12/filling-in-the-gaps/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/12/filling-in-the-gaps/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:03:30 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6126 “Waiting for Godot” follows two days in the lives of a pair of men who divert themselves while they wait expectantly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive. They claim him as an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognize him were they to see him. To [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/12/filling-in-the-gaps/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/25/reei-crossing-the-river/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/25/reei-crossing-the-river/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:46:03 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=702 “In the “Judgment” of the Book of Changes, whenever one encounters dangerous circumstances the advice is always: “Cross the river.” One can see from this that the real purpose of boats is to deliver people from danger rather than to provide comfort.” Pleasure Boat Studio by Ou-yang Hsiu (1007 – 1072) We seem to take [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/25/reei-crossing-the-river/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/04/the-long-walk/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/04/the-long-walk/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:12:15 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2572 In January 1864, the U.S. Army forcibly removed between 8,000 and 9,000 Navajo Indians from their traditional lands in the eastern Arizona Territory and the western New Mexico Territory to internment camps in Bosque Redondo in the Pecos River valley. They had been conquered by a campaign whereby the U.S. Army had systematically destroyed [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/04/the-long-walk/feed/ 2 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/24/the-music-of-halacha-loving-others/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/24/the-music-of-halacha-loving-others/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:03:05 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5773 The first entry in my Service of God Notebooks in which I realized that there is Music to Halacha: “Everything that is brought to people who are having a meal that has a particularly wonderful aroma and thereby adds to the craving to eat the food; those who are eating must offer some of that [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/24/the-music-of-halacha-loving-others/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/20/the-music-of-halacha-kashering/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/20/the-music-of-halacha-kashering/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:54:43 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5748 Dear Rabbi Weinberg; I have heard you say on numerous occasions that the laws of Kashering are a guide to repairing spiritual damage. Since the laws of Kashering are in this week’s Parsha, Matos, “Everything that comes into fire, you shall pass through fire and it will be purified (Numbers 31:23),” I was wondering where [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/20/the-music-of-halacha-kashering/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/19/the-meaning-of-fasting/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/19/the-meaning-of-fasting/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:15:40 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2695 (Kings II Chapter 25) “It happened in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylonia, he and his entire army, came to wage war against Jerusalem and encamped near it, and built a siege tower around it.” Jeremiah had been predicting the [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/19/the-meaning-of-fasting/feed/ 0