Rosh HaShanah Services High Holy Days 5781 at Mishkan Tefila
Join Mishkan Tefila and our High Holy Day Musical team, from around the world, as we journey as a community, in prayer, and in song, to celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Erev Rosh Hashanah Virtual Seder September 18, 6.00 pm - 6.45 pm Join Rabbi Plumb as we begin the High Holy Day season with the Sephardic tradition of a fun, food-filled, mini Rosh Hashanah focused Seder. Try it, you’ll like it! Click here for more information and to register.
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Morning Service September 19, 9.30 am - 12.00 pm Join us for a unique, engaging Rosh Hashanah morning service, filled with spirited music and meaningful, joyful prayer. During the service, you can pray, journal, share hopes, go to the Schmooze Room, take a spiritual break, smell flowers and more.
Rosh Hashanah Day 2 September 20, 9.30 am - 11.30 am Join us for programs with Rabbi Dr. Shire and Rabbi Plumb.
Tashlich & Shofar Service - Weather Permitting led by Rabbi Plumb September 20, 2.00 pm, 3.30 pm and 5.00 pm (Family Service) Click here for more information and to register. Pre-registration is required. We will gather at City Hall Pond in Newton, 1000 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton Centre.
Thank you to our virtual Torah Readers! Click below to listen to the Rosh Hashana Torah Readings.
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit and Shloshim Observances
Shloshim Bertram Hamilton Mervyn Hurwitz
Saturday Lillian Ruth Pach
Sunday Howard Dickerman Florence Kaitz Greenberg
Monday Saul Gershkowitz
Tuesday Barbara Shuman
Wednesday Samuel Golov Frances Stahler Boris Bob Cohen
Thursday Samuel Greenberg
Friday Merton Brandes
From Our Rabbi: A Teaching
It is time. Hineini. I am here. You are here. We enter this new year together. Finally. We need a New Year. Although we are in the middle of 2020, we Jews are lucky enough to have an opportunity to reset our souls now. Our holy days bring us rejuvenation and renewed strength at a time when we desperately need it . The prayers, faith, and hopes of generations of Jews standing at this same spot in time, give us the energy to believe in a hopeful future and work to bring it about. During the next 10 days, we enter a timeless bubble. The world outside the synagogue may carry on in its usual unpredictable, chaotic way, but inside the High Holy Day spiritual universe, we operate on a different level. We stand with our ancestors who welcomed Rosh Hashanah in 1492, 1780, 1860, 1917, 1929, 1943, 1948 and 1968. We are in a challenging, unpredictable time, but they lived through worse. Their Avinu Malkeinu is ours. Their shofar blasts mingle with ours. Inside our spiritual bubble, are the smells of round challot, the sounds of the Great Aleynu, the timeless fears of who shall live and who shall die in the Unetaneh Tokef, and the sight of fellow Jews all over the world connected by the sacred thread of the heart, soul, and this year, the internet.
Today, prepare your homes to welcome in the New Year. Follow the suggestions in your gift bag on how to turn your home into a sacred sanctuary for God to dwell.
Today, prepare your souls. Get out the journal sheet in your gift bag and begin reflecting on what you need in this New Year.
Today, prepare your table for the new experience of the mini Rosh Hashanah seder tonight. Join me and my family in our home as we welcome the beginning of 5781 with sweet and unusual food, laughter and song. Today, prepare your computers and TV screens. They are the sacred zoom rooms through which we feel part of the world wide community of Jews, and your CMT family.
Today, prepare your souls. Get out the journal sheet in your gift bag and begin reflecting on what you need in this New Year.
Hineini. We are here together. And we are ready.
May God bless us, those we love, and all of God's children, in 5781.
Shabbat Shalom and Shana Tova u’metuka, With blessings for a shabbat of peace and a New Year of sweetness,
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
