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/2010/03/28/discoverers/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/28/discoverers/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:09:12 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2180 “Kama Ma’alot Tovot Hamakom Aleinu!” This is usually translated as, “The Ominipresent has bestowed so may favors upon us!” However, a more accurate translation would be, “How many Higher Levels of Goodness does the Omnipresent possess over us?” I’ll readily admit that the usual translation, as inaccurate as it is, is easier to understand. This [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/28/discoverers/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/the-thrill-of-gratitude/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/the-thrill-of-gratitude/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:19:17 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2163 In his autobiography, Vladimir Nabokov describes the gratitude he feels in the presence of a rare butterfly. “This is ecsatsy, and behind ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/the-thrill-of-gratitude/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/a-sense-of-wonder/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/a-sense-of-wonder/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:59:51 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2160 The sense of wonder that is our sixth sense. And it is the natural religious sense. D.H. Lawrence “Tell me father, why do we dip the Karpas?” “We do it so that you will ask that question.” I never liked that answer. We dip the Karpas just to make our children ask a question that doesn’t have an answer! We [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/a-sense-of-wonder/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/finding-the-words/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/finding-the-words/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:43:25 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2157 “This primary intuition of the strangeness of it all, of our single selves as unspeakably fragile and brilliant observers of a grandeur for which we have tried through all our generations to find words, this is the experience that seems to me to underlie religion. – Marilynne Robinson, “Credo” Harvard Divinty Bulletin, Spring 2008 I have [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/finding-the-words/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/genetic-backup/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/genetic-backup/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:21:43 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2154 Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene In a startling discovery, geneticists at Purdue University say they have found plants the possess a corrected version of a defective gene inherited from both their parents, as if some handy backup copy with the right version had been made in the grandparents’ generation or earlier. The finding implies [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/genetic-backup/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/the-story-teller-and-the-maggid/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/the-story-teller-and-the-maggid/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:02:31 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2151 Some of my father’s favorite stories were about the years he spent as a Maggid. I had asked him where he found so many of the rare books in his library and he told me that his Rebbi, Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner zt”l, had sent him to small communities all over New York, New Jersey [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/03/27/the-story-teller-and-the-maggid/feed/ 1