Friday, December 18, 3 Tevet 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Jackson Mercer for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service During Friday night services, we will commemorate the end of 2020. If you have lost someone during this pandemic, suffered from Covid, or struggled with 2020 (as we all have), and are looking forward to 2021, please join us.
Saturday, December 19, 4 Tevet 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Zachary Mayer with Rose Spitzer reading Torah for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Shabbat Morning Service
If you have a simcha, please share it with us and receive a special blessing from Rabbi Plumb during an upcoming Shabbat service. Sponsor a Kiddush by virtually inviting us to your home as you lead the community in KIddush and HaMotzi prayers. (we will provide challah and grape juice!) Please contect Rosalie Reszelbach, Janet Stein Calm or Toni Spitzer to arrange.
The Parasha is Miketz Genesis 41:53-57 The Haftarah is 1 Kings 3:15-4:1
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
Save the Date: Friday, January 15, 2021 for a special MLK Weekend Simchat Shabbat featuring The Afro-Semitic Experience
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit and Shloshim Observances
Shloshim Barbara Grant Amy Tichnor Dr. Marjorie Sue Rosenthal
Saturday Agnes Selig Anne Levine
Sunday Ida Gilman Dr. Samuel Krensky Marjorie Hendel
Monday Rose Lushan Benjamin Perlmutter
Tuesday Helen Cohen
Wednesday Franklin L. Bridges Leon A. Medvedow David breb Nachman
Thursday Dr. Morris Yorshis Dorothy Stone
Friday Evelyn Domba
From Our Rabbi: A Teaching
This week, on December 21, we have the longest night of the year. It will be the longest night of what seems like the longest year, 2020. After December 21, the days begin to lengthen, and the light will grow bit by bit. Soon, the year that has felt like five years rolled into one, will come to an end.
Just like the light growing candle by candle at Hanukkah, and day by day after December 21, our hope for a better year ahead is slowly growing too. Every vaccine delivered brings us closer to health and healing. Despite the fact that the months ahead will be hard, we know there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
As much as we look forward to a healthier, freer 2021, it may also be challenging for some of us to embrace hope. In some ways in our daily lives, we have become accustomed to fear and limitations. Our homes feel safe. The outside world--not so much. In time, relatively soon, however we will begin to venture back out into activity and action.
In our service tonight, we will be marking the end of 2020, and looking ahead to emotionally and spiritually moving into new hope and a new year. One of the prayers we will sing is called Ana BaKoach, which asks God to help us untangle the knots we find ourselves caught in. I invite you to join us as we pray that we can untangle our hearts and minds from the fear and grief that has held us captive in 2020.
Tonight we will acknowledge those we have lost this year, and use our prayers and music to help us begin to make the transition into new hope. Jackson Mercer and I will bring new melodies and spiritual focus to our service. If you have suffered losses this year, struggled with COVID, and want to mark the end of this year, please join us tonight as we help each other turn toward hope.
May this Shabbat bring you loosened knots.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
