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/finding-my-place/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/finding-my-place/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:50:48 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=3275 A crab emerging from the sea was foraging on some beach. A starving fox, when he caught sight of the crab, ran up and seized him. The crab, on the verge of being gobbled up, said, “I deserve my misfortune, because, though a sea creature, I wished to become a land animal.” Thus those people who [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/finding-my-place/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/haazinu-a-silent-song-beyond-words/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/haazinu-a-silent-song-beyond-words/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:50:53 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1200 Once upon a time, somewhere in the universe very far away from here, lived a tranquil star, which moved tranquilly in the immensity of the sky, surrounded by a crowd of tranquil planets about which we have not a thing to report. This star was very big and very hot, and its weight was enormous: [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/haazinu-a-silent-song-beyond-words/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/the-day-after/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/the-day-after/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:48:24 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1135 Once upon a time there was a young and very hungry fox. He loved to kill and eat sheep. He would dart out of the forest a few times each day to visit one farm after another and grab a sheep. The local farmers were furious, and decided to band together and rid the forest [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/the-day-after/feed/ 2 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/goose-stepping-iii-why-i-posted-the-mistaken-version/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/goose-stepping-iii-why-i-posted-the-mistaken-version/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:37:33 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1100 You can read both versions of the Goose-stepping story: Goose-Stepping I: The MIstaken Version & Goose-Steppping II: The Correct Version on the blog. You may wonder why I posted both, or why I posted the mistaken version at all, or, to make things confusing, if I prefer the Mistaken Version, why did I post the [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/goose-stepping-iii-why-i-posted-the-mistaken-version/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/goose-stepping-the-correct-version/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/goose-stepping-the-correct-version/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:36:11 +0000 admin http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1098 In 1989, Rabbi Sanford Drezin (One of the great rabbis- slw) was an Army chaplain in Heidelberg Germany. He witnessed the following. A small synagogue in Heidelberg hired a cantor for Rosh Hashanah. When the time came to take out the Torah, the cantor took the Torah from the arc and goose stepped with the Torah [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/goose-stepping-the-correct-version/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/the-goose-step-the-mistaken-version/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/the-goose-step-the-mistaken-version/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:34:50 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1062 I arrived 30 minutes late for my morning walk, and saw someone I had never before seen. He began to goosestep when he saw me; I assume that he believed I would associate the step with the Nazis. (I did wonder if I was being punished for sleeping late.) He was wrong. A friend, the [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/08/the-goose-step-the-mistaken-version/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/07/visions-of-greatness/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/07/visions-of-greatness/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:04:45 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1088 I wake up when it is still dark outside, so it was easy to notice the squares of light that were floating around the room. They were scenes from Pip’s dreams. There were pictures of bones floating next to much larger pictures of rib steaks, all the things you would expect to occupy a dog’s [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/07/visions-of-greatness/feed/ 0 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/2010/09/03/a-bed-of-doorknobs/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/03/a-bed-of-doorknobs/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:44:39 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=3255 People we don’t really know offered their home on the ocean to Debbie and me for some quiet time. It’s beautiful, spacious, full of personality, and, wow! What a view! (there may be no angels in LA, but there sure are some wonderful people!) I forgot about the traffic in this area, so was shocked when [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/03/a-bed-of-doorknobs/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/02/mastering-the-power-of-silence-by-prof-gerald-august/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/02/mastering-the-power-of-silence-by-prof-gerald-august/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:00:46 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=3188 Rabbi Peter Grumbacher is a Reform rabbi in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1995, Rabbi Grumbacher’s mother passed away in New York City. So the next day he and his father were sitting with the funeral director. The man was taking professional notes on the information the Grumbachers were giving him. At one point, the funeral [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/02/mastering-the-power-of-silence-by-prof-gerald-august/feed/ 1