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/2011/08/29/real-kavod-hatorah/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/29/real-kavod-hatorah/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:10:41 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6003 Irene was not my first hurricane. That was Agnes in 1971.  One story went around the Jewish community about the Shamash of the synagogue in Wilkes-Barrie, PA, a Holocaust survivor, who, despite being a very old man, rather than evacuate as did everyone else, ran to the synagogue and carried all the Torah scrolls to [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/29/real-kavod-hatorah/feed/ 2 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/12/the-power-of-re-enchantment-shema/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/12/the-power-of-re-enchantment-shema/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:00:00 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2009/06/10/the-power-of-re-enchantment-shema/ Anne Fadiman recently published a collection of essays entitled Rereadings: Seventeen writers revisit books they love. Ms. Fadiman invited famous writers to reread books that were important to them when they were young. Most of the essayists had not read the assigned books in many years, and were often enchanted all over [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/08/12/the-power-of-re-enchantment-shema/feed/ 1 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/2011/06/10/grow-up/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/10/grow-up/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:22:19 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2424 Every child is fascinated by the problem of the caterpillar and the butterfly. But most of us, forget these things and become absorbed in matters of consequence. Scientists form one group of individuals in whom childish traits persist: for the adult scientist still wonders about the problem of the caterpillar and the butterfly. He [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/06/10/grow-up/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/24/whats-inside/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/24/whats-inside/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 20:54:05 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=2412 In Honor of Rabbi Moshe Stepansky and his comment to “The Futurist“: The Tanchumah (Bamidbar 2) teaches: This can be compared to a ruler who entered a province, and when its citizens saw him they fled. He entered a second province and the citizens ran away. He then went into a remote town, [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/24/whats-inside/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/13/desperate-to-teach/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/13/desperate-to-teach/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 17:34:04 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5327 Rabbi Akiva gave five instructions to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai when Rabbi Akiva was incarcerated in prison (See Berachot 61b): Rabbi Shimon said to him, “Master! Teach me Torah!” Rabbi Akiva said, “I will not teach you (to protect his student from being imprisoned).” Rabbi Shimon said, “If you do not teach me, I [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/13/desperate-to-teach/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/10/i%e2%80%99m-desperate/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/10/i%e2%80%99m-desperate/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 17:39:34 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5314 Rabbi Akiva gave five instructions to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai when Rabbi Akiva was incarcerated in prison (See Berachot 61b): Rabbi Shimon said to him, “Master! Teach me Torah!” Rabbi Akiva said, “I will not teach you (to protect his student from being imprisoned).” Rabbi Shimon said, “If you do not teach me, I [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/10/i%e2%80%99m-desperate/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/08/rise-to-the-occasion/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/08/rise-to-the-occasion/#comments Sun, 08 May 2011 23:31:23 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=5303 Rabbi Akiva gave five instructions to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai when Rabbi Akiva was incarcerated in prison (See Berachot 61b): Rabbi Shimon said to him, “Master! Teach me Torah!” Rabbi Akiva said, “I will not teach you (to protect his student from being imprisoned).” Rabbi Shimon said, “If you do not teach me, I [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2011/05/08/rise-to-the-occasion/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/30/royal-messages-100-and-one/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/30/royal-messages-100-and-one/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:45:55 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=1113 “One cannot compare someone who has reviewed his studies one hundred times to someone who has reviewed them one hundred and one.” (Chagigah) Rabbi Yechezkail Levenstein zt”l explained that the latter is not someone who simply reviewed his studies one extra time. It describes someone who focused on “Achat” – the One -, as he studied. We [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/30/royal-messages-100-and-one/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/19/sound-bites-purposeful-breath/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/19/sound-bites-purposeful-breath/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:17:49 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=882 Rabbi Yose taught: Every action in which a person engages that is not in the service of the Holy One, Blessed is He, turns into a breath that goes drifting through the world. And when the person’s soul departs, that breath whirls it through the world like a stone in the sling (David and [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/08/19/sound-bites-purposeful-breath/feed/ 1