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/2011/10/06/mistakes-h%e2%80%99evinu/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/06/mistakes-h%e2%80%99evinu/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:15:47 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6114 “Noah removed the covering of the Ark, and looked, and behold! The surface of the ground had tried (to see Genesis 8:13).” It is also possible to read the final phrase of the verse as, “the surface of the ground had been destroyed.” What did Noah see when he first looked outside of the Ark after [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/06/mistakes-h%e2%80%99evinu/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/06/mistakes-maradnu/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/06/mistakes-maradnu/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:12:49 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6112 “Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. He went up to the temple of God with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/06/mistakes-maradnu/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/06/mistakes-tafalnu-sheker/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/06/mistakes-tafalnu-sheker/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:10:02 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6110 “Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron. They quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before God! Why did you bring God’s community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here? Why did [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/06/mistakes-tafalnu-sheker/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/06/mistakes-latznu/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/06/mistakes-latznu/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:09:03 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6108 In “Meditations on First Philosophy,” Descartes set out to determine how and if we can distinguish false beliefs from true knowledge. He began by noting that there is theoretically no limit to how wrong we could be, because, God could deliberately deceive us about even the most seemingly self-evident matters. People were uncomfortable speaking of [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/06/mistakes-latznu/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/05/mistakes-ti%e2%80%99ta%e2%80%99anu/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/05/mistakes-ti%e2%80%99ta%e2%80%99anu/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:18:09 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6106 Having no theory at all and having too many theories both suggest that you are in the middle of a crisis of knowledge. A year and a half after the Millerites “Great Disappointment,” one former believer, Enoch Jacobs, exclaimed, “O what an ocean of contradictory theories is that upon which the multitudes have been floating [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/05/mistakes-ti%e2%80%99ta%e2%80%99anu/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/05/schindlers-yom-kippur-by-prof-gerald-august/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/05/schindlers-yom-kippur-by-prof-gerald-august/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:14:35 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6103 Schindler’s list is a great movie from the 1990s about Oscar Schindler, a businessman in Nazi Germany who made guns for the Nazis. He saved over 1200 Jews. Schindler teaches us how to approach Yom Kippur. The Torah teaches us to “Afflict your soul.” People fast, do not wear leather shoes, etc. but the real command [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/05/schindlers-yom-kippur-by-prof-gerald-august/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/03/mistakes-kishinu-oref/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/03/mistakes-kishinu-oref/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:33:54 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6093 Studies have shown that if you and another person are debating the merits of a particular idea and the other person suddenly insults you, you will instantly retreat further into your own position, and your conviction that the other person is wrong will intensify. I admit that it is far easier to “win” an argument [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/03/mistakes-kishinu-oref/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/03/after-forgiveness/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/03/after-forgiveness/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:32:06 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6089 I am convinced that a Shiva call is not considered complete until after the Seven Days of Mourning! The Shiva house is full of people, but then it ends. The mourner is left alone. He has to return to life with his entire world changed, without the support of all the friends who came during [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/10/03/after-forgiveness/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/09/27/sound-bites-finding-our-hearts/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/09/27/sound-bites-finding-our-hearts/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:15:49 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1104 “God, your Lord, will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring.” (Deuteronomy 30:6) The first letters of “your heart and the heart of your offspring” spell Elul. “From heaven God gazed down upon mankind, to see if there exists a reflective person who seeks out God.” (Psalm 53:3) The Holy One, Blessed is He, searches [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/09/27/sound-bites-finding-our-hearts/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/09/27/one-small-detail/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/09/27/one-small-detail/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:56:38 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1036 I spent most of yesterday battling with Land Rover over a receipt. Our car is under warranty and the transmission failed immediately after the engine was replaced. (Long Story!) Land Rover wanted receipts proving that we properly maintained the car and were not the cause of the transmission’s death. We have receipts for maintenance every [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/09/27/one-small-detail/feed/ 1