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/2011/07/31/kavanot-rosh-chodesh-av/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/31/kavanot-rosh-chodesh-av/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:00:42 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5858 The Kabbalists use different verses to focus on the Name of God during the Mussaf – Additional prayer – on Rosh Chodesh – The New Month. They use the following verse on Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av:  ”Moses and the Cohanim, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying, Be Attentive and Hear O Israel.” (Deuteronomy 27:9) The [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/07/31/kavanot-rosh-chodesh-av/feed/ 0 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/2011/06/01/rosh-chodesh-sivan-kavanot/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/01/rosh-chodesh-sivan-kavanot/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:30:06 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5399 We derive the appellation for God’s Name, used in the Rosh Chodesh Mussaf – Additional Prayer – for Rosh Chodesh Sivan from the combination of letters and vowels of the following verses: ”You shall make forty silver sockets under the twenty planks; two sockets under one plank for its two tenons, and two sockets [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/01/rosh-chodesh-sivan-kavanot/feed/ 0 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/2010/08/27/missing-from-eden/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/27/missing-from-eden/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:33:04 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=3145 I was stopped in front of the hospital by a representative of the Kabbalah Center. She wanted me to sign up for “An Introduction to Kabbalah.” “You look kind of religious; did you ever study Kabbalah?” “I know nothing about the Kabbalah you teach.” “Well, aren’t you at least curious?” “No.” “Do you believe in Kabbalah?” “What [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/27/missing-from-eden/feed/ 0 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/2010/06/30/rabbi-david-lapin-of-i-awaken-on-pinchas/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/06/30/rabbi-david-lapin-of-i-awaken-on-pinchas/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:45:21 +0000 admin http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=442 The Imperfection of Knowledge Wisdom is mysterious and human knowledge is not absolute. There is a dimension of wisdom that eludes even the wisest of men. “Fifty pathways to wisdom were created in the Universe” says the Gemarra,[1] “and all were given to Moshe except one.” Human knowledge will always lack at least one dimension of [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/06/30/rabbi-david-lapin-of-i-awaken-on-pinchas/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/2009/07/02/notes-of-daat-tevunot-class-july-7-09/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/07/02/notes-of-daat-tevunot-class-july-7-09/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:46:06 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=335 There is a special gift of satisfaction, which we request as part of the Shabbat and Holy Day Prayers: V’sabeinu MiTuvecha – Satisfy us from Your Best – Our souls are desperate to reconnect with their source and cannot find satisfaction without that connection. This is why the generation of the desert, despite all [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/07/02/notes-of-daat-tevunot-class-july-7-09/feed/ 1