Friday, March 12, 28 Adar 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Ellen Allard for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service Follwing services we will join Toni & Laurence Spitzer for Kiddush and HaMotzi in honor of their 26th wedding anniversary. .
Saturday, March 13, 29 Adar 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Cantor Ellen Band for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" 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.
Shabbat HaHodesh and Mevarchim Exodus Pekudei 40:33-38 Maftir 12:1-20 Haftarah is Ezekiel
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 Observances
Saturday Hyman Chafetz Oscar Shanken Arthur Karas
Sunday Jacob Elman Abraham Hyman
Monday Thelma Dreezer Ruth Shapiro Rev. Michael Domba Murray Albertson Abe Wagner Benjamin Sack Jack Wizansky
Tuesday Sonia Rapoport Edith Sylvia Alperin Sara Lewin
WednesdayTheodore "Ted" Cutler Sidney Stahler
Thursday Dr. Nathan Goodman Ida Adwin Abraham Madow Dora Lom
Friday David Magid
An Evening of Tikvah/Hope Monday, March 15, 7:00 - 7:30 PM
Join us this Monday, March 15 at 7:00PM for an evening of Tikvah/Hope as we gather together to remember the day we left our 384 Harvard Street home due to the COVID 19 virus and we began a new phase of sharing our homes together as we moved to "From Our Home to Yours."
Rabbi Plumb and Ellen Allard will lead us in song and in prayer as we honor the past year and look forward to the upcoming time when we will all be together in our beautiful Sacred Space.
This Sunday, we celebrate Rosh Chodesh Nisan, the month of Pesach. It comes at an opportune time for us. Rosh ChodeshNisan appears in our parasha this week, Vayakhel-Pikudei, when we are told to build the mishkan on the first day of the first month of the year, which in the Bible, is Nisan. It is as if Rosh Chodesh Nisan is the spiritual birthday of the mishkan, and perhaps, of Congregation Mishkan Tefila too. We have built and rebuilt our Mishkan geographically, and this past year, we have built it in your homes. It is fitting that, on this anniversary of the lockdown and of leaving our shul building, we celebrate our Mishkan, and the powerful role our community has played in giving us strength and connection this past year.
There is another biblical mention of Rosh Chodesh Nisan that also fits our times. A friend, Rabbi Moshe Re’em, shared this teaching with me. He pointed out this verse from the Noah story, Gen.8:13:
In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the waters began to dry from the earth; and when Noah removed the covering of the ark, he saw that the surface of the ground was drying. The waters began to dry on the first day of the first month, Rosh Chodesh Nisan.
Noah removed the Masecha, the covering of the Ark, the skylight, to see that the plague of rain was diminishing. The ground was not yet dry, and it was not time to come out of the ark, but that time was coming soon.
Masecha is also the word for mask. In our time, with the rollout of vaccinations, however slow, we too are opening our doors to see if the time is right to emerge. Our plague is also receding. We are not ready to remove our masks, for safety reasons, but hope for a bright future is growing. Buds will soon be emerging from the cold winter ground as the snow recedes. This year, of all years, Rosh Chodesh Nisan represents hope and healing.
Join me as we celebrate Rosh Chodesh Nisan this Sunday at our Shir Haneshama, our Mussar Sacred Song Circle, at 3.00 pm EST, with music of chofesh/freedom.
On Monday night, we will mark our one year anniversary of moving our Mishkan ‘From Our Home to Yours’, when Ellen Allard and I will lead a short Ceremony of Tikvah/Hope, at 7:00 PM.
On this Shabbat, may your homes be filled with fresh hope and health.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
