Friday, April 3, 9 Nisan 6:00 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Services Please join Rabbi Plumb and Marni Levitt for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours"
Saturday, April 4, 10 Nisan 9:30 - 10:30 AM Shabbat HaGadol Morning Services Please join Rabbi Plumb and Cantor Ellen Band for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Rose Spitzer, daughter of Toni Spitzer, will be chanting Torah
The Parasha is Tsav Leviticus 6:1-3 The Haftarah is Malachi 3:4-24
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit and Shloshim Observances
Shloshim Patricia "Pat" Black Ruth Shapiro Sara Lewin
Saturday Alexander Gould
Sunday Robert Beroff Hinda Lewin Rose S. Mirkin
Monday Abraham Zimble Joshua I. Seidman
Tuesday Leo Allen Doris A. Loventhal Selma Albertson Gloria Rosendorf Dale A. Silverman
Wednesday Linda Cutter
Thursday Thelma Katz Rose Silberstein Samuel Gross
Friday Ruth Green Eva Shuman Oscar Einstein
Prepare for Pesach
How is this night different from all other nights? There are more than four ways, this year! I want to share with you how to prepare for Pesach this year.
What’s on for Pesach at the Mobile Mishkan: Our Virtual Home?
Second Night Seder, April 9, for all ages—Enjoy a meaningful, fun, interactive virtual seder at Rabbi Plumb’s home, April 9, 4:30 pm. Please join us and register. We would like to involve as many participants as possible. Please let us know if you’d like to take a bit of the seder and put your own spin on it, from your home to ours! We’d love to share the leading of the seder as we would if we were at same table.
First day Pesach services, April 9, 9:30 am led by Rabbi Plumb and Adirchai Haberman Browns, our High Holy Day Hazzan, who will be joining us from Jerusalem.
8th day Pesach service with Yizkor, April 16, 10:00 am led by Rabbi Plumb and Cantor Band. Torah reading by Rose Spitzer. For registration and ZOOM link information please visit www.MishkanTefila.org
Resources for Celebrating First Night Pesach in your home:
A funny joke going around is that Pesach is cancelled this year because of a plague. The Haggadah commands us to ‘See ourselves as if we ourselves came out of Egypt.’ In ordinary times, that is often hard to do from our beautifully laid, food filled tables in North America. But this year, we are given the chance to have a small taste of what it might have been like living amongst the plagues in Egypt. It is as if the whole planet is getting a taste of the Passover experience. It is ironic and, in a way, compelling, that we are reliving the experience of our ancestors.
Rarely does the past and present merge in such a powerful, literal way. Our ancestors watched and lived through plague after plague. They too had to sequester in their homes, change their way of life, and live in fear as they watched their neighbors suffer and die. I imagine they worried about how long the suffering and fear would last. They wondered how their lives would be changed. There are differences of course, between us and them, but we can learn from them how to survive. Telling their story of suffering, fear, anxiety and ultimate salvation seems even more vital, necessary and alive now than in years past.
The Exodus story is our lifeline. We can see our future through their eyes. When we read the Haggadah next week, we will learn that life can change radically overnight, and uncertainty and fear become the norm. But we will also see that tumultuous change can bring new insights, and freedom in completely unexpected ways. Without the plagues, the Israelites would have continued in slavery. They would never have discovered that there could be another life for themselves. We too wonder what new awareness’s, knowledge, and possibilities will come from our plague. Perhaps we will learn how good it is to free the environment from the human-made plague of greed. Perhaps the sense of global community we have discovered will fill us with compassion for each other. Living through this plague is painful, disorienting and frightening. But this year, Pesach holds out the promise of a resilient future ahead of us. Whether you join with our community for our Second night seder, or attend services with us on first day and last day Pesach, or whether you celebrate Pesach via zoom, or with your own bowl of greens, salt water and matzah at your kitchen table, let the story of Pesach, and the Israelites, lead us all, and the world, toward a future of redemption. I hope to see you in my home for second night seder. Please click the link in our email and join me as we read the story of our past and our future.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
