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/2012/01/05/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-ii-amasa-introduction/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/05/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-ii-amasa-introduction/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:20:25 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6381 “Now you yourself know what Yoav son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Yeter. He killed them, shedding their blood in peacetime as if in battle, and with that blood he stained the belt around his waist and the [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/05/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-ii-amasa-introduction/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-i-abner-part-four/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-i-abner-part-four/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:30:47 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6368 In our journey of “Balance,” “David, Yoav & Abner I,” “Part Two,” and, “Part Three,” we’ve been studying David’s opening charge to Solomon urging him to balance his dual roles as person and king (Be a Man). We have watched as Joab battles the king’s sense of balance, and how he was willing to place [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-i-abner-part-four/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-i-abner-part-three/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-i-abner-part-three/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:05:26 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6366 It is clear in “Balance,” “David, Yoav & Abner I,” and “Part Two,” that David’s opening charge to Solomon is to urge him to balance his dual roles as person and king (Be a Man). We’ve begun to see how Joab is anti-balance, and why David includes his instructions regarding Joab in his opening charge. [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-i-abner-part-three/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-i-abner-part-two/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-i-abner-part-two/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:00:53 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6363 In “Balance,” and “David, Yoav & Abner I,” we began to explain David’s opening charge to Solomon from his deathbed, urging him to balance his dual roles as person and king (Be a Man). We’ve seen how David dealt with Abner, but we still must explain his reaction to, and his instructions regarding, Joab. We continue [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-i-abner-part-two/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-i-abner/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-i-abner/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:55:05 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6361 We concluded Part One wondering how David’s opening message of balance to Solomon bears on all the instructions that follow. We pay close attention to the way the prophet formats the text, where he places an open space, indicating a new topic, or a closed space, indicating a related topic. The following verses are included [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-i-abner/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:53:19 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6359 When the time drew near for David to die, he gave a charge to Solomon his son. “I am about to go the way of all the earth,” he said. “So be strong, become a man, and observe what God your Lord requires: Walk in His ways, and guard preciously His decrees and commands, His [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/04/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/09/18/joyous-trembling-god-as-my-advocate/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/09/18/joyous-trembling-god-as-my-advocate/#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:51:35 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6076 “Judge me, Lord, and plead my cause against a nation without passion. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked. You are my Lord, my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy? Send Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; let them bring me to [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/09/18/joyous-trembling-god-as-my-advocate/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/24/psalm-27-struggling-in-faith/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/24/psalm-27-struggling-in-faith/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:50:52 +0000 admin http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/09/06/psalm-27-struggling-in-faith/ by Rabbi Avi Baumol of the VBM: I. “Le-David: God is my light, my salvation; from whom shall I fear? God is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?” (27:1) II. “One thing I ask from God, it, shall I beseech of Him: that I may dwell in the house of God [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/24/psalm-27-struggling-in-faith/feed/ 1 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/2009/05/28/david-batsheva-and-the-flood/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/05/28/david-batsheva-and-the-flood/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 14:35:42 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=117 People have been asking me about my Twitter Tweets about the connections between the David and Batsheva story and the Flood. The end of Bereishit describes how powerful men took the wives of other men for themselves. The Midrash (Midrash Shmuel 26) and Talmud (Sotah) connect David and the Flood when he was digging the foundation [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/05/28/david-batsheva-and-the-flood/feed/ 3