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.
Please click here for the link to the page numbers for Shabbat morning prayers in Sim Shalom (Blue) and in Lev Shalem Page Numbers for Shabbat Morning
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit and Shloshim Observances
Shloshim Bertram Hamilton Mervyn Hurwitz
Saturday Samuel Kaitz
Sunday Selma Cooperband David Kamowitz
Monday Milton H. Gordon Sidney Hark Frank Schwartz
I am pleased to be back with you on Shabbat and via these Shabbat messages. I am looking forward to being with all of you at High Holy Day services in a couple of weeks. Our services will be powerful this year. We will be together online, in a sacred Zoom space. Our services will be different this year, but we at Mishkan Tefila like creative change and embracing new opportunities.
One thing will be the same—our High Holy Day music team will be leading us with great music and soul. Adirchai Haberman Browns, Nadav Ben Ozer and Niv Harnam will be in Israel, with an additional percussionist and singer named Roni. Ellen Allard will be joining us from her home in Gloucester, Tutti Druyan will be with us too, with her father, Ron, and I will be leading from our sacred space in the sanctuary. You will be there too, from your homes. You will be able to see and greet each other.
I am excited about the services. We will create community and connections with each other, and remind ourselves that we are here for each other. We will sing, dance, journal, reflect, smell beautiful smells, share our hopes and regrets, and give each other strength and renewal for the months ahead. The services will be engaging, fun, interactive and multi-media. Our prayers and music will give us tools to navigate the stressful world around us, and help us find our deepest, best souls in the midst of it all.
When I was a child, my parents used to sing a story/song to me. It was from a book called ‘Going on a Bear Hunt.’ The story was about a group of children going on a bear hunt. They came across obstacles that they had to get through to keep going. The chorus was: We’re going on a bear hunt...Oh there’s a river in our way….we can’t go over it, we can’t go under it, we can’t go around it, we gotta go through it!’
This year, we are all ‘Going on a Soul Hunt.’ There are many obstacles blocking our path to our precious souls, so here is my rendition of ‘Going on a Soul Hunt—we can’t go over it (political divisions), we can’t go under it (coronavirus), we can’t go around it (racism)….we gotta go through it, together! ‘
This year, I look forward to going on the Soul Hunt with you by my side.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
