http://blog.thefoundationstone.org Learn & discover the Divine prophecies with Rabbi Simcha Weinberg from The Foundation Stone Blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:52:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/forgive-me-please/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/forgive-me-please/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:33:08 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/08/31/forgive-me-please/ Let me get this over with: Will each and every one of you please forgive me for anything I may have done to hurt you over the past year? I’ll take that as a yes. Thanks. I feel much better. That wasn’t even too hard! We must make amends. We are charged to do so before Yom [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/forgive-me-please/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/03/angels-in-los-angeles/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/03/angels-in-los-angeles/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:48:01 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=3258 I’m finding it increasingly difficult to believe signs and names. It all began when I realized that my sweetest sister was named Miriam, meaning bitter, and another sister, let us say, less sweet than Miriam, was named Naomi, meaning ’sweet.’ Matters have only been getting worse: my wife and I were driving on the highway and [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/03/angels-in-los-angeles/feed/ 2 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/31/asking-for-forgiveness/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/31/asking-for-forgiveness/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:09:49 +0000 admin http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/08/31/asking-for-forgiveness/ Notes offered by El-Ad Eliovson: Shiur l’refuah shleimah Yehudah Manik ben Beilah, Chana Chaya bat Perel, Yocheved Raizel Sarah bat Rivka Malya • 1st instance of mechilah by brothers and Yosef • See Genesis Chapter 45 • 42: 21 • The brothers are not “simple” – they are the Shivtei Kah, the twelve tribes of G-d • This whole episode is a question of how open-minded [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/31/asking-for-forgiveness/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/28/elul-compassion-for-my-inconsistencies/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/28/elul-compassion-for-my-inconsistencies/#comments Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:45:11 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=963 Calliope abandoned me on this morning’s walk, and I am grateful. Her music plays too many of her beautiful ideas in my head to recall when I am back in front of my computer. I am grateful for her peaceful absences as I am for her symphonic appearances. I am most grateful for her inconsistencies. [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/28/elul-compassion-for-my-inconsistencies/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/26/elul-1-presence/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/26/elul-1-presence/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:47:51 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=775 The primary verse associated with Elul is “Ani L’dodi, v’dodi li”, – “I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me.” (Song of Songs 6:4) Targum Yonatan understands this verse as a description of God reaching out to us, and making Himself accessible to us, no matter where we are. God gives [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/26/elul-1-presence/feed/ 4 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/26/dance-steps/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/26/dance-steps/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:29:23 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1091 “Rabbi, I am so depressed that I am going to commit suicide! What are you doing?” “I’m calling 911.” “Why?” “You said that you were suicidal.” “But you’re supposed to talk me out of it! You aren’t supposed to call 911.” “I can’t take the risk with your life.” “I don’t really mean it. None of the other rabbis I spoke [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/26/dance-steps/feed/ 2 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/26/elul-words-of-encouragement-from-one-friend-to-another/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/26/elul-words-of-encouragement-from-one-friend-to-another/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:47:20 +0000 admin http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=971 Here are some ideas sent from one anonymous friend to another: 1. What is happening (troubles/challenges) in your life are temporary and you will come out of them much stronger 2. Even Avraham Avinu had ten nisyonot (challenges) 3. The phrase in the prayer Aleinu, “l’takayn olam b’Malchut Sha-dai, to fix the world with/in the dominion of G-d as known [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/26/elul-words-of-encouragement-from-one-friend-to-another/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/26/stirrings-of-elul-love-songs/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/26/stirrings-of-elul-love-songs/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:29:43 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/08/17/stirrings-of-elul-love-songs/ “I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me.” (Song of Songs 6:4) I took the wrong iPod with me this morning on my hike. I turned it on expecting to hear my father zt”l delivering an advanced Talmud lecture, instead, the Beach Boys blasted my ears with a love song. (I [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/26/stirrings-of-elul-love-songs/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/24/royal-messages-the-hearts-of-kings/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/24/royal-messages-the-hearts-of-kings/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:20:28 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=960 “The honor of the Lord is a hidden thing, but the honor of kings may be searched out. The highest heavens, the deepest earth, and the heart of kings cannot be fathomed.” Proverbs 25:2-3 We can examine and even comprehend the glory of kings, but not their hearts. We cannot comprehend the glory of the Lord. The [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/24/royal-messages-the-hearts-of-kings/feed/ 2 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/23/the-last-jew-of-vinnitza/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/23/the-last-jew-of-vinnitza/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:09:35 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=3062 This picture was taken on September 16, 1941 at Vinnitza, Ukraine and was found in the personal file of a German Einsatzgruppen soldier. On the back of the picture he had noted, “This is the last Jew of Vinnitza”.

28,000 Jews from the city and surrounding area were shot on that day by the [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/23/the-last-jew-of-vinnitza/feed/ 0