Friday, October 16, 28 Tishrei 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Zachary Mayer for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Services
Saturday, October 17, 29 Tishrei 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Jackson Mercer with Rose Spitzer reading Torah for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Shabbat Mevarchim Morning Services
The Parasha is Bereshit Genesis 2:4-9 The Haftarah is 1 Samuel 20:18-42
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 Bernard Berkman Miriam Harel
Saturday Charles Silk Dr. Harry Blotner Sarah Korbman
Sunday Abraham Pugatch
Monday Laura Brown
Tuesday Louis Cutter Florence Kaplan David Eastman Richard Hyman
Wednesday Anne Honey Katz
Thursday Mollie Perles Samuel Adelson Esther M. Rosenbaum
Friday Louis Sudikoff Jason Brooks Jacob Shapiro
Join LimmudBoston for Two Great Virtual Learning Events
Rachel Korazim and Laura Mandel in Conversation: Windows to Israeli Society through Literature and Life Sunday, October 18 at 11 am No cost A maven of Israeli poetry and literature, and a delightfully engaging teacher, Rachel Korazim will be LimmudBoston’s special guest this year at its November 15th eFestival. Join us in October for a special preview, a chance to learn more about Rachel’s own story, and hear about her experiences teaching during the time of coronavirus. Rachel will be in conversation with Laura Mandel, Executive Director of the Jewish Arts Collaborative. Click here to register.
LimmudBoston eFestival Sunday, November 15 from 11:00 am – 4:30 pm Please join us from the comfort of your own home, safe and warm in sweats and slippers! Bring your favorite beverage and come learn at our Limmud Boston eFestival! This year's online program begins with an All-Festival Welcome Gathering featuring Rachel Korazim who will speak on "One Jerusalem - Multiple Images." Singer-songwriter Menachem Creditor will also help open the festival with some glorious uplifting music. Click here to for more information and to register.
From Our Rabbi: A Teaching
The Creation of Earth, Sea and New Beginnings
"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. " t.s. elliot
And so we begin again. The water, land, moon, tides and us are created this week. In parashat Bereshit, we watch ourselves be newly created, breath and soul breathed into our primal lump of clay. We stand from our moment in history, distant from that first moment, and wait to see who these first humans will become... knowing it is us. We are in our time, and in the first moment of time, all at the same time. Today, we are in the middle of strange and challenging circumstances, but we are also blessed to have a new beginning. This Shabbat, we uncover our origins, and explore how to celebrate our beginnings as human beings, and how to find a new beginning for our souls.
Beginning again is a gift of grace, and an active choice. This Shabbat we are given a new start to life. But this Shabbat we also have to decide whether to accept it. God places us again in the Garden of Eden as a promise of what lies ahead, if only we choose to let down our weariness, fears, powerlessness and weapons of devisiveness, and polarisation. Today, let us embrace the new hopefulness, strength, curiosity and aliveness that comes with being newly born.
This Shabbat, I wish you a renewed soul, Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
