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/2011/12/14/the-gift-of-the-view/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/12/14/the-gift-of-the-view/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:35:10 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6205 I received the following story in an email from Dr Menachem Seuss HaKohen: Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only window. The other man had [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/12/14/the-gift-of-the-view/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/11/11/the-pain-of-abraham-by-prof-gerald-august/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/11/11/the-pain-of-abraham-by-prof-gerald-august/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:18:04 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6166 It was the third day after Abraham was circumcised and he was in pain. So how do we explain what he does? He saw men approaching his tent. He ran to greet them and bowed before them. He ran to tell Sarah to make cakes, and again ran to take a calf to be slaughtered [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/11/11/the-pain-of-abraham-by-prof-gerald-august/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/28/the-three-weeks-becoming-illuminators/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/28/the-three-weeks-becoming-illuminators/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:01:30 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5815 A story is told of Rabbi Mattaih ben Cheresh who was wealthy, God-fearing, had a fine personality, ran to do mitzvot, tzedakah in particular, provided generously from all he owned for the benefit of the Sages, always had widows and orphans eating at his table, all his dealings with other people were honest, all his [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/28/the-three-weeks-becoming-illuminators/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/25/mishlei-tools-three-weeks-1220-loving-others/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/25/mishlei-tools-three-weeks-1220-loving-others/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:04:39 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5784 “There is joy for people who make plans to do good (Proverbs 12:20).” Rabbi Levi said, “whoever thinks to himself before going to sleep at night, “When I wake up tomorrow I will do good things for So and So,” that person will ultimately share great joy with the righteous in the Garden of Eden, [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/25/mishlei-tools-three-weeks-1220-loving-others/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/24/the-story-of-khalid-the-kind/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/24/the-story-of-khalid-the-kind/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:06:20 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5775 Long, long ago, a lone traveler set out to cross the Sahara Desert, heading north from Timbuktu. Days passed and he made steady progress on the road to Marrakesh. On the eighth day of his journey, the traveler was set upon by a ferocious sand storm. The wind lashed him without mercy and confused his [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/24/the-story-of-khalid-the-kind/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/24/loving-others-by-using-your-talents/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/24/loving-others-by-using-your-talents/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:02:01 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5770 “Happy is he who understands, Maskil, the needs of the lowly (Psalm 41:2).” Rabbi Yonah said, “Happy is the person who uses his talents when giving to those in need.” What does Maskil really mean in this verse? That the person doing tzedakah takes and intense look at the midst of a situation at hand [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/24/loving-others-by-using-your-talents/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/24/the-bath-that-made-yom-kippur/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/24/the-bath-that-made-yom-kippur/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:39:46 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5763 Vladek was notorious, the subject of jokes and gossip in Auschwitz work camp X. He was a Polish country boy who received packages from home with fruit and woolen socks, so he was potentially a person of some standing. All the same, he never washed. Otto, the German barracks chief, one of the first inmates of [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/24/the-bath-that-made-yom-kippur/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/01/a-glass-of-milk-shared-by-rich-albeen/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/01/a-glass-of-milk-shared-by-rich-albeen/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:26:34 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5633 One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.  He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.  Instead [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/01/a-glass-of-milk-shared-by-rich-albeen/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/24/the-trough-in-central-park-by-prof-gerald-august/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/24/the-trough-in-central-park-by-prof-gerald-august/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 18:19:16 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5363 As you enter Central Park from Sixth Avenue, there is a water trough made of stone. It is three feet long by one foot wide by 14 inches high, and has a pipe that supplies water for the horses that pull the carriages. The trough was donated by Mrs. Henry C. Russell The other day [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/24/the-trough-in-central-park-by-prof-gerald-august/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/04/29/teresaville-by-prof-gerald-august/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/04/29/teresaville-by-prof-gerald-august/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:31:38 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5221 Teresa is a waitress in a coffee shop in Delaware. She is a fabulous waitress with an outgoing personality She knows what her regular customers usually order, and their soup or salad are at their table a minute after they sit down. Teresa has her own section of the coffee shop. But what makes [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/04/29/teresaville-by-prof-gerald-august/feed/ 0