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/2011/06/24/a-bow-for-ones-students/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/24/a-bow-for-ones-students/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:20:21 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/06/23/a-bow-for-ones-students/ “Moses heard and fell on his face.” (16:4) I wonder how I would have reacted upon seeing Moshe bow and fall on his face. I suspect that I would have immediately fallen on my face and waited for Moshe to signal that it was all right to rise. But the people did not fall on their [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/24/a-bow-for-ones-students/feed/ 2 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/05/20/pythagoras-cholent-and-tznius-modesty/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/05/20/pythagoras-cholent-and-tznius-modesty/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 06:03:10 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/06/08/pythagoras-cholent-and-tznius-modesty/ Pythagorus had a lot of influence for a man who probably never existed. The Pythagoreans invented their founder, including the manner of his death. Pyhthagoras had a strong revulsion to beans. He would definitely never have eaten Shabbat afternoon Cholent, and not because of its natural effects on the stomach, but because beans are [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/05/20/pythagoras-cholent-and-tznius-modesty/feed/ 2 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/09/07/tefillah-class-notes-9609/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/09/07/tefillah-class-notes-9609/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:58:35 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/09/07/tefillah-class-notes-9609/ 1. There is a difference between ‘sacrificing” what I want in order to please someone else and loving someone so much that I desire whatever he or she wants. The former is the usual ingredient of compromise in a relationship: Compromise implying that each party that compromises gives up part of what he or she wants. [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/09/07/tefillah-class-notes-9609/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/06/03/daat-tevunot-class-notes/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/06/03/daat-tevunot-class-notes/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:27:29 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/06/03/daat-tevunot-class-notes/ We began with the Intellect’s statement on the bottom of pages 18 -19 in The Knowing Heart: 1) A person achieves Dveikut – Attachment as he or she achieves greater self-mastery. 2) Dveikut – Attachment is to God’s Kedusha – Sanctity. 3) Dveikut allows one to enjoy his or her perceptions of God’s Glory. 4) That enjoyment will not [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/06/03/daat-tevunot-class-notes/feed/ 1