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/2011/08/08/lamentations-kinah-13-just-so/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/lamentations-kinah-13-just-so/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:48:47 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2614 This Kinah plays on the word, “Eichah,” and used, “Ei Ko,”: Where is the ‘Ko,’ or So, as in, “So said God?” It is commonly understood that when God uses the term ‘Ko,’ He demonstrates an intense degree of Hashgacha Pratit – Individual Divine Providence, and reveals manifest love for Israel. Therein, lies the problem. [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/lamentations-kinah-13-just-so/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/lamentations-kinah-8-line-1/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/lamentations-kinah-8-line-1/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:48:32 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/07/20/lamentations-kinah-8-line-1/ “Would that I could soar to the sphere of the heaven.” This phrase is usually understood to be based on: “Behold, like an eagle the enemy – Babylon – will swoop down and spread its wings against Moab.” (Jeremiah 48:40) Moab, an ancient enemy of Israel, was confident that, because there were no indications that [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/lamentations-kinah-8-line-1/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/empty-spaces/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/empty-spaces/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:25:10 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2593 I experience a different feeling in my gut when I see an empty space where a synagogue once stood than when I see a synagogue that stands empty. There used to be a synagogue on Rivington near Ludlow, on the Lower East Side. I first saw the building when it was abandoned. I passed by [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/empty-spaces/feed/ 2 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/kinah-14-rereading-the-question/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/kinah-14-rereading-the-question/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:20:17 +0000 developer http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2620 “He cut down the towering stature of Adam, the creature He had fashioned with His own hands, He had just stepped into the treasure house of Eden when he was evicted. Thus God demonstrated to him that the couch is too short.” We cannot think of all the death and destruction of Tisha B’Av without going [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/kinah-14-rereading-the-question/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/lamentations-kinah-6-line-1/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/lamentations-kinah-6-line-1/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:15:37 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/07/13/lamentations-kinah-6-line-1/ “Everything came to a standstill”. “Shavat” – This is based on Lamentation 5:15: “Gone –Shavat – is the joy of our hearts, our dancing has turned into mourning”. The Ibn Ezra explains that the “joy of our hearts” refers to the Offerings brought in the Temple, as in Ezekiel 24:25: “And you, Son of Man, [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/lamentations-kinah-6-line-1/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/i-wonder-joyful-mourning/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/i-wonder-joyful-mourning/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:13:21 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/07/28/i-wonder-joyful-mourning/ I have heard people explain the Holocaust as the expression of God’s anger with Reform Judaism, which began in Germany. That would not explain why the Germans massacred so many more traditional Jews, or why Poland and Hungary were burned by the fires of the concentration camps. People are desperate for answers and will accept [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/i-wonder-joyful-mourning/feed/ 2 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/the-four-questions-of-tisha-bav-class-notes-72309/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/the-four-questions-of-tisha-bav-class-notes-72309/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:05:43 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/07/28/the-four-questions-of-tisha-bav-class-notes-72309/ Question 1: Genesis 3:9: “God, the Lord, called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” How did Adam hear the question? “They heard the Voice of God, the Lord, walking in the garden toward evening.” (Genesis 3:8) What did they hear? Was the Voice saying something? Or, did they just hear a “Voice”? Moses [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/the-four-questions-of-tisha-bav-class-notes-72309/feed/ 2 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/the-true-genius-of-the-jewish-people/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/the-true-genius-of-the-jewish-people/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:55:32 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2589 The popular conception of genius is that it is an inborn gift, yet an increasingly large body of research suggests the opposite – that genius is always the product of sustained effort. A case in point – Mozart: “Standing above all other giftedness legends, of course, [is] that of the mystifying boy genius Wolfgang Amadeus [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/the-true-genius-of-the-jewish-people/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/eichah-tisha-bav-part-four-2000/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/eichah-tisha-bav-part-four-2000/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:54:42 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=429 There is another chapter written for someone else. Josiah was a little kid when he became king. He decided to be a good guy. He undertook a complete remodeling of the Beit Hamikdash. He removed the idols that literally filled the walls. One day they were cleaning the [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/eichah-tisha-bav-part-four-2000/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/eichah-tisha-bav-part-three-2000/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/eichah-tisha-bav-part-three-2000/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:50:39 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=425 Last year, my father died, and of course it was devastating. But then, there were positive things that came out of it. While a parent is alive, it’s much easier to feel like a kid. But when a parent dies, especially one whom one relies on very much, I and my [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/08/eichah-tisha-bav-part-three-2000/feed/ 1