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Tisha b’Av Amidah Kavanot-Second-Sixth Blessings

Second Blessing: Evening: Focus on Resurrection of the Dead: We acknowledge, even in this moment of destruction, even as we experience Your Might being expressed against us, that everything You do is with purpose to

Tags: Amidah, Forgiveness, God, God's Power, Kavanot, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Redemption, Resurrection, The Foundation Stone, Tisha B'Av

Lamentations-First Kinah-Line 5

“We are orphans without a father.” 1) Rabbi Berachiah said in the name of Levi, “You cried that you have no father, I swear by your lives that your redeemer from Media, Esther, will have, “For she had neither mother nor father.”

Tags: Kinah, Kinot, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone, Tisha B'Av

Kinah 1-Introduction-Theme

1) Based on Chapter 5 of Eicha. 2) Midah Kineged Midah:

3) Rambam: “There are days

Tags: Kinah, Kinot, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone, Tisha B'Av

Kinah 16-Rome and Jerusalem

The Roman Emperor Hadrian (76 AD-138 AD), third of the so-called Five Good Emperors, seeks to annihilate radical Judaism:

Tisha B’av & Eicha-2000

Transcribed by Daniel Goldman: You can be angry, just to get angry, or you can be angry because of a pattern in a relationship. So there is a difference between someone insulting me and someone preventing me from accomplishing

Tags: Kinah, Kinot, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone, Tisha B'Av

Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg zt”l-Shofetim-Exile and Its Egregious Effects

We may not notice it as much as previous generations did due to the relative good relations with the non-Jewish world (though recent events have shaken us), but we are in exile and have been for almost 2000 years. The prolonged exile

Tisha b’Av Amidah Kavanot-First Blessing

“My Master! Open my lips, that my mouth may declare Your praise.”

Tags: God, Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone, Tisha B'Av

Kinot-Links to Essays Related to Kinot Part IV

The Foundation Stone has a complete commentary on the Kinot on our website and Blog – Click on the Kinot Tab on the bottom right. However, not all essays on Kinot are listed as such. Below are essays pertinent to Kinot:

Tags: Kinah, Kinot, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone, Tisha B'Av

Kinah 14-As Adam

"He cut down to size the great height of the man He fashioned." As God placed Adam into the Garden of Eden, He took him from tree to tree, pointing out the beauty and blessings

Tags: Kinah, Kinot, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone, Tisha B'Av

Amidah-Three Weeks-Yerushalayim-A Torch

Rabbi Hoshiah said: Jerusalem is destined to be a lantern for all the nations, and they will all walk by its light (Yalkut Shimoni, Isaiah #499).

Tags: Nine Days, Prayer Tools, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone, Tisha B'Av, Yerushalayim

Amidah-Three Weeks-Yerushalayim: From Whose View?

When we pray for God to rebuild Jerusalem we are looking back into history, remembering Jerusalem as it was during the time of the First and Second Temples. We are praying for God to restore what once was. However, we

Tags: Nine Days, Prayer Tools, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone, Tisha B'Av, Yerushalayim

Nine Days-Loving Others – 1

One cannot act appropriately with others if he is lacking in his Trust in God: “Do not say, ‘I will pay retribution for evil.’ Trust in God and He will help you.” Bitachon, or Trust, plays a major role in loving others.

Tags: Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Religion, Serving God, Spiritual, The Foundation Stone, Tools for Growth

Nine Days-Loving Others – 2

The two angels facing each other over the ark remind us that each of us has a unique quality in our service of God, and only when we can see this quality in others, will the Torah be complete.

Tags: Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, Religion, Serving God, Spiritual, The Foundation Stone, Tools for Growth

Amidah-Nine Days-Ritzei-V’techezena Eineinu

It is one thing to ask God to allow us to witness His return to Zion with our own eyes in the future, when it will actually happen. It is quite another thing to request that God give us a vision of the

Tags: Nine Days, Prayer Tools, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone, Tisha B'Av

Amidah-Three Weeks-Yerushalayim-To Live at a Higher Level

On one occasion a man read in the presence of Rabbi Elazar, “Make known to Jerusalem her abominations (Ezekiel 16:2).” Rabbi Elazar said to him, ‘While you are investigating the abominations of Jerusalem, go and investigate

Tags: Nine Days, Prayer Tools, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone, Tisha B'Av, Yerushalayim

Tisha b’Av-Kinah 3-Crying

"Tonight, My children weep and wail.""Some researchers now say that the common psychological wisdom about crying - crying as a healthy catharsis - is incomplete and misleading. Having a "good cry" can and usually does allow people to recover some

Tags: Chassidut, Kabbalah, Kinot, Spiritual, Tisha B'Av

Kinah 25-Tears In Prayer

"Would that my head were water, and my eyes a fountain of tears." One who prays with tears is assured that his prayers will be heard, for the gates of tears are never closed. Tears poured in prayer have the spiritual status of the Water Libations on the Altar, as

Tags: Prayer, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, The Foundation Stone

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Tisha b’Av Amidah Kavanot-Second-Sixth Blessings

Lamentations-First Kinah-Line 5

Kinah 1-Introduction-Theme

Kinah 16-Rome and Jerusalem

Tisha B’av & Eicha-2000

Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg zt”l-Shofetim-Exile and Its Egregious Effects

Tisha b’Av Amidah Kavanot-First Blessing

Kinot-Links to Essays Related to Kinot Part IV

Kinah 14-As Adam

Amidah-Three Weeks-Yerushalayim-A Torch

Amidah-Three Weeks-Yerushalayim: From Whose View?

Nine Days-Loving Others – 1

Nine Days-Loving Others – 2

Amidah-Nine Days-Ritzei-V’techezena Eineinu

Amidah-Three Weeks-Yerushalayim-To Live at a Higher Level

Tisha b’Av-Kinah 3-Crying

Kinah 25-Tears In Prayer

Kinah 17-The Story of Khalid the Kind

Kinah 25-Kochav miYaakov-The Power of Tears

Kinah 9-Ramak-Stirring The Dust

Amidah-Nine Days-Mei Marom: Living With Salvation

Amidah-Three Weeks-Yerushalayim-To Whom Does it Belong

Nine Days-Loving Others – 3

Tisha b’Av-Kinah 31-Becoming An Exile

Tisha b’Av-Kinah 13-Clarity

Tisha b’Av-Kinah 10-Levi

Kinah 44-O How The Mighty Have Fallen

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