Save the Date for our upcoming Mimosas and Mussar - led by Rabbi Plumb
Saturday, April 18th, 9:00 AM Enjoy a mimosa and a light continental breakfast along with a Mussar text study led by Rabbi Marcia Plumb. Join in for Shabbat Morning Services immediately following.
Join with Cantor Rozenfeld in prayer for this special Shabbat experience. She is a jewel in our crown. She leads from the siddur and imbues the prayers with extra neshama (soul). RSVP at https://www.mishkantefila.org/form/mussarandmimosas
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Shloshim Charlotte Kaitz Irma Gershowitz Bruce Shoicket
Rabbi Plumb and Tri-President Caryl Goodman have spent the last week attending a Mussar retreat in Israel. Here is Rabbi Plumb leading part of Shabbat services in Jerusalem. The Old City can be seen through the windows.
It was a powerful morning when our Mussar trip group gathered around the graves of master Mussar teachers on the Mt.of Olives, the national cemetery of Israel.
We studied texts from five scholars. One of them was Rabbi Naftali Amsterdam. He died in 1966 in Israel. He was a student of Rabbi Israel Salanter, the founder of Mussar yeshivot in eastern Europe.
Rabbi Amsterdam made a resolution to change the whole of the House of Israel.
How would he achieve this daunting task he set for himself?
He declared: I will change myself, and everyone who comes into contact with me will be inspired. I will behave with holiness and respect toward all. Others will be moved by my attitudes and will do the same. One person will be inspired by another to change, and another and another, until all have changed for the good.
Rabbi Amsterdam taught that changing the world needs only one person at a time.
This Shabbat may we be that one person who inspires others. May we be the one who starts the chain of change.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
