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/2011/06/18/rabbi-survives-attack-by-monster/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/18/rabbi-survives-attack-by-monster/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:17:28 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5538 I was attacked in middle of the night by this horrible and dangerous looking monster. It began by waking me up with a horrible noise in my ear. It then began to literally suck my blood. Had it not been Shabbat, I would have fearlessly faced it in open battle and killed it.  Instead, [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/18/rabbi-survives-attack-by-monster/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/inconsistencies-a-memory/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/inconsistencies-a-memory/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:26:27 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2468 I was all of 16 years old, and was quite confused. I had serious questions about how people use Judaism to relate to God, and I was asked to meet once a week with public school students and answer their questions. It was pouring that night in Santa Clara, as I sat in a [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/inconsistencies-a-memory/feed/ 3 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/inconsistencies-part-two/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/inconsistencies-part-two/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:42:03 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2465 He listened to, but did not participate in the ongoing conversations around Miriam’s Well in the days that followed their devastating punishment for their reaction to the spies. People were frustrated, depressed and angry. “I don’t want to live out the rest of my life in a tent in the desert.” “The only [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/inconsistencies-part-two/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/the-emperors-new-clothes/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/the-emperors-new-clothes/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:25:03 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/06/14/the-emperors-new-clothes/ “Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of the spies of the land, tore their clothes.” (Numbers 14:6) Whose clothes did they tear? The Kotzker explains that they torn the clothes of high position off the backs of the other spies. The first step is to expose the Emperor’s New Clothes. We often [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/the-emperors-new-clothes/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/the-great-balancers/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/the-great-balancers/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:46:25 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2439 Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics is a psychologist, not an economist. He was lecturing to a group of Israeli air force flight instructors on the conventional wisdom of behavior modification and its application to the psychology of flight training. Kahenman drove home the point that rewarding positive behavior works but punishing [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/the-great-balancers/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/fighting-with-the-laundry/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/fighting-with-the-laundry/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:39:57 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5531 Ever since I saw my father zt’l washing his Tzitzit, I have washed my own. Please understand; my siblings and I would battle each other for the merit of serving our parents and cleaning for them. The only things we were willing to just stand back and observe was my father preparing my mother’s Shabbat [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/fighting-with-the-laundry/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/without-wondering/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/without-wondering/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:36:34 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5528 “Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars,” observed Augustine in the fifth century, “ and they pass themselves without wondering.” Moses sent out the [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/16/without-wondering/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/13/in-his-clutches/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/13/in-his-clutches/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 02:20:22 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2451 Teresa of Avila mentions in her dramatic autobiography that her prayers were continuously interrupted by the Devil and her serious thought was replaced by nonsense. (Me too) She also endowed Satan with bad temper and false humility. At one point Satan visited her, and Teresa described him vividly: “A great flame seemed to issue from [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/13/in-his-clutches/feed/ 3 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/13/signals/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/13/signals/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 02:10:33 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2445 My wife and I met a couple we haven’t seen in more than fourteen years. We, all, were truly happy to see each other, but fourteen years is a huge gap, especially when both couples have been through so much. How do you connect after so many years? How can you quickly review twelve [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/13/signals/feed/ 4 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/06/04/ever-since-babel/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/06/04/ever-since-babel/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:00:54 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2487 Ever since Babel we have been wondering about ladders and towers that reach the heavens. The first ladder to heaven didn’t turn out very well. The next one, in Jacob’s dream was awesome, but it was only a dream. The actual ladder does not appear until this week’s portion, smack in the middle of [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/06/04/ever-since-babel/feed/ 0