http://blog.thefoundationstone.org Learn & discover the Divine prophecies with Rabbi Simcha Weinberg from The Foundation Stone Blog Sun, 17 Mar 2013 02:48:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/11/rabbi-david-lapin-of-i-awaken-on-pinchas-what-are-you-willing-to-sacrifice/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/11/rabbi-david-lapin-of-i-awaken-on-pinchas-what-are-you-willing-to-sacrifice/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:50:07 +0000 admin http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/07/09/rabbi-david-lapin-of-i-awaken-on-pinchas-what-are-you-willing-to-sacrifice/ The opening passage of the Parsha holds the key to understanding courage. Zimri desecrated G-d’s name by publicly flaunting his illicit relationship with the Midianite Princess, Kozbi bat Tzor. Pinchas reacts passionately and in accordance with the Halachah of that time, assassinates Zimri and kills Kozbi. Hashem responds by rewarding Pinchas with an everlasting Brit [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/11/rabbi-david-lapin-of-i-awaken-on-pinchas-what-are-you-willing-to-sacrifice/feed/ 2 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/31/the-great-escape/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/31/the-great-escape/#comments Tue, 31 May 2011 17:01:59 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/06/05/the-great-escape/ I love Michio Kaku’s books, but I have a problem with his Physics of the Impossible: He discusses phasers, force fields, teleportation and time travel, but he does not even mention the invention for which I am most desperate; a thought grabber. Too many of my thoughts escape through the holes in my brain. I [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/31/the-great-escape/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/05/the-attraction-of-the-mystical/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/05/the-attraction-of-the-mystical/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 20:39:46 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5289 “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God Who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” (Galileo, 1615) I agree with Galileo, however, I seem to be in a shrinking minority. I have recently been inundated with stories of chimneys that serve as [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/05/the-attraction-of-the-mystical/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/31/elul-love-songs-stepping-toward/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/31/elul-love-songs-stepping-toward/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:09:53 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=823 “I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me.” (Song of Songs 6:4) Rabbi Eliezer of Worms, the Rokeach, explains this verse as describing the Teshuva process: With each step we take back toward our Beloved, God, He takes a step back toward us. Author Info: 

 Learn & discover the Divine prophecies with Rabbi [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/31/elul-love-songs-stepping-toward/feed/ 2 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/22/spiritual-sustenance-2/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/22/spiritual-sustenance-2/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:05:23 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=879 “Teshuva, Tzedaka, and Prayer, remove the worst part of the decree.” Rabbi Shimon said, “Come and see: All foods of the inhabitants of the world derive from above. The food that comes from heaven and earth is food for the whole world; it is coarse and dense. (This refers to ordinary food of a material [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/22/spiritual-sustenance-2/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/19/sound-bites-purposeful-breath/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/19/sound-bites-purposeful-breath/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:17:49 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=882 Rabbi Yose taught: Every action in which a person engages that is not in the service of the Holy One, Blessed is He, turns into a breath that goes drifting through the world. And when the person’s soul departs, that breath whirls it through the world like a stone in the sling (David and [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/19/sound-bites-purposeful-breath/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/15/timeless-a-two-way-street/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/15/timeless-a-two-way-street/#comments Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:21:07 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=838 “He recalled (Zachar) His kindness and His faithfulness to the House of Israel; all ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our Lord.” (Psalm 98:3) Should you ask, that if God’s power was so great, why did He instruct Israel to borrow silver and gold from the Egyptians (Exodus 11:2), and why did [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/15/timeless-a-two-way-street/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/12/yaacov-dovid-shulman-presents-rav-kook-the-joy-that-torah-gives-us/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/12/yaacov-dovid-shulman-presents-rav-kook-the-joy-that-torah-gives-us/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:20:09 +0000 admin http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=767 The joy that the Torah gives us comes from the preponderance of light within the letters of the Torah, filled as they are with the life force of divine pleasure. These letters pervade the totality of our soul with the light of life and the joy of heaven. This is a joy that flows from [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/12/yaacov-dovid-shulman-presents-rav-kook-the-joy-that-torah-gives-us/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/12/yaacov-dovid-shulman-presents-rav-kook-on-positive-mindfulness/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/12/yaacov-dovid-shulman-presents-rav-kook-on-positive-mindfulness/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:10:36 +0000 admin http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=713 When we elevate matters with our clarity of intent, our awareness continuously expands in the abundance of a superior reality. At that point, our desire–a desire of eternal love, of great love–for the light of the infinite is scented from the eden of life. Then we shall gaze and be illumined. But if our mindfulness [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/12/yaacov-dovid-shulman-presents-rav-kook-on-positive-mindfulness/feed/ 0 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