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/2012/01/23/baruch-dayan-emet/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/23/baruch-dayan-emet/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:54:56 +0000 developer http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6405 The Foundation Stone offers its condolences to Rabbi Simcha Weinberg on the passing of his mother Rebbitzen Chana Weinberg. The funeral is scheduled for 10AM Tuesday, January 23 at Ner Israel Rabbinical College 400 Mt Wilson Lane. Baltimore, MD 21208. Shiva will be observed in Rebbitzen Weinberg’s home on the yeshiva campus. May the Omnipresent [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/23/baruch-dayan-emet/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/05/so-what/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/05/so-what/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:17:11 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6386 Many of the essays posted on The Foundation Stone have “Machberes Avodas Hashem” (The Service of God Notebooks) credited as the author. These essays are based on thoughts I’ve jotted down over the years to remember all the significant ideas I learn, hear, and read, and, what is more important, to figure out ways to [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/05/so-what/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/12/24/burning-to-give-light/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/12/24/burning-to-give-light/#comments Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:15:57 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6240 “What is to give light must endure burning (Victor Frankl).” “Joseph shall place his hand on your eyes (Genesis 46:4).” God promised Jacob that Joseph would give light to him and to the entire family, for all generations. Although this would be a time of great stability for the family, a period of darkness was soon [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/12/24/burning-to-give-light/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/11/succot-contradictions/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/11/succot-contradictions/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:03:40 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1223 I love water. I love the ocean. I love waterfalls. I love to go whitewater rafting. I love to swim. I love the Mikvah – Ritual Bath. I hate water. I hate finding water on the floor of my study. I hate when our garage is flooded. I hate having my clothes soaked by rain. [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/11/succot-contradictions/feed/ 7 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/laughing-in-my-succah/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/laughing-in-my-succah/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:05:46 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1219 Taking my children when they were young on a trip. Finding the perfect gift for my wife. My grandfather’s face when I received my first s’micha – Rabbinic Ordination. Receiving a call from my Rebbi, HaRav Yochanan Zweig, telling me that my father called him to tell him how excited my father was with a [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/laughing-in-my-succah/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/disguises/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/disguises/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:53:03 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1267 Iphicrates, a famous Athenian general, once fitted out his own fleet in the enemy’s manner, and sailed to a people he viewed with suspicion. When they welcomed him effusively and enthusiastically, he sacked their town, now that he had unmasked their treason. (Frontinus, Stratagems 4.7.23) I decided to copy Iphicrates and use my Succah as a [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/disguises/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/the-security-of-the-succah/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/the-security-of-the-succah/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:42:38 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1248 The twelve-hour drive from Toronto for our annual Succot visit with my grandparents left me bruised, battered, and drained by all the fights my sister began with me. (I, of course, never started a fight.) We arrived in 1968, post riots Baltimore. Although I did not see burned out cars on my grandparents’ block, things [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/the-security-of-the-succah/feed/ 2 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/succot-the-perspective-of-choice/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/succot-the-perspective-of-choice/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:42:46 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1231 Poem 1742 The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear – Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year. And then, that we have followed them, We more than half suspect, So intimate have we become With their dear retrospect. Emily Dickinson Gathering, as in Chag Ha’Assif, describes how we would collect and store our bundles of crops. There [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/succot-the-perspective-of-choice/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/a-special-kind-of-beauty/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/a-special-kind-of-beauty/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:35:43 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=3509 Debbie and I were walking around Central Park when we heard magnificent singing. We followed the sound until we found a family singing a song from the Sound of Music. Their voices were angelic. It was the Boyd Family, and what a beautiful family it is! (You can email Mr. Boyd to purchase his [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/10/a-special-kind-of-beauty/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/09/27/a-first-class-seat/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/09/27/a-first-class-seat/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:23:38 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1148 Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler accompanied a student to the train station, the first stop on the young man’s journey to a new country. As they approached the station, the student asked his holy rabbi for a blessing. “From the depths of my heart, I wish for you, that you find a good seat for your [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/09/27/a-first-class-seat/feed/ 1