Friday, July 24, 3 Av 6:00 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Services Please join Rabbi Plumb and Ellen Allard for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours"
Saturday, July 25, 4 Av 9:30 - 10:30 AM Shabbat Hazon Morning Services Please join Rabbi Plumb and Cantor Ellen Band with Rose Spitzer reading Torah and giving a D'var for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours"
The Parasha is Devarim Deuteronomy 1:1-3 The Haftarah is Isaiah 1:1-27
Please click here for the link to the new Conservative prayerbook, Siddur Lev Shalem: Shabbat Shaharit Siddur Lev Shalem The prayers will be the same as in our usual blue siddur, so feel free to use that instead if you wish.
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit and Shloshim Observances
Shloshim David Shire Martin "Marty" Alpert
Saturday Matthew N. Stein Norman Buchbinder Rose Eidelman
Sunday Sarah Freedman Nettie Kisloff Hyman Mann Robert B. Seltzer
Monday Evelyn D.G. Freedman Milton Lefkowitz Philip Rome
Tuesday Libbie Listic Abraham Silber Mollie Ehrlich
Wednesday Jacob Goodman Max Gilman Lottie Stern Charles Figler
This Wednesday night and Thursday is Tisha B’Av, the 9th of Av, the national fast day of mourning for all the tragedies that have befallen our people over the centuries.
At CMT, we are marking this powerful day in three ways. On Tuesday night, July 28, Alan Morinis, the master Mussar teacher, will speak on The Role of Sadness from a Mussar Perspective. How can sadness be useful? Thursday afternoon July 30, we are co-sponsoring a gathering to support Jews of colour in Brookline, at 5.30. Finally, to end Tisha B’Av together, as a community, on Thursday evening at 7.30, Rabbi Dr. Michael Shire will lead us in a ‘deep dive’ text study of the book of Lamentations.
Why are we focusing so much on Tisha B’av this year? Perhaps because on this Tisha B’av, we are suffering. Illness and fear have fallen upon us like a blizzard in summer. Our society is weeping because of broken promises and injustices. God’s children are in mourning for lost lives and lost dreams.
This year, on Tisha B’Av, we hope that we will be inspired to repair our broken hearts and renew the covenant God made with all humanity--that never again would God allow humanity to be destroyed by anger. Part of the Tisha B’Av service includes the prayer Hashiveinu--Return us O God to you, and make us new like in days of old. We suffer when we turn away from God. We find hope and strength when we turn toward God, the source of awe, wonder, faith and renewal. Below is a poem based on this prayer.
This Shabbat I hope we all find rejuvenation, and renewed faith in the future.
Hashiveinu: Return Us, by Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit Return us to ourselves Return us to each other
Return us to the earth Return us to our Land: the land beneath our feet
Return us to This Moment Return us to our knowing remembering that we know
Return us to our rhythms Return us to our drums Return us to sleep in the middle of the night
Return us to our deepest desires our shared loves our clear visions
Return us to our bodies to our breath to breathing easily
Return us to knowing how beautiful we are
Return us to ourselves Return us to each other
Return us to our good questions our bare feet our brilliant minds our singing voices
Return us to falling in love with ourselves and each other
Return us to our Shrines and to our shrine-keeping
Return us to our places of peacemaking Return us to trusting each other and ourselves
Return us turn us and we will dance and be held and behold that we are whole and be in harmony with You
Return us keep turning us for everything is within us for Torah will keep coming out of us for sweetness is within us and longs to return to You
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
