Friday, March 26, 13 Nisan 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Ellen Allard for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service. With special Pesah songs and focus.
Join us after services for Kiddush and HaMotzi with Wendy and Steve Handler with a special blessing in honor of their wedding anniversary.
Saturday, March 27, 14 Nisan 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Zachary Mayer for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Service with Rose Spitzer "LIVE" reading Torah.
Join us after services for Kiddush and HaMotzi with Irene Gaffin in honor of her birthday.
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.
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
Passover Services
First Day Pesach Services - Sunday, March 28, 10:00 AM Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Adirchai Haberman-Browns Torah reading by Rose Spitzer (LIVE!)
Art as Midrash: The Illuminated Haggadot - Wednesday, March 31, 6:00 PM with Rabbi Dr. Michael Shire Click here to register. 8th Day Pesach Service with Yizkor Services - Sunday, April 4, 10:00 AM Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Cantor Ellen Band
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Saturday Linda Cutterr
Sunday Thelma Katz Rose Silberstein Samuel Gross
Monday Ruth Green Eva Shuman Oscar Einstein
Tuesday Mina Berman Louis A. Shuman
Wednesday Hyman Kurzman Elaine Wexler Berl Lejfer
Thursday Frieda Berman
Friday Yury Gaitsgory Viviene Liebnau
From Our Rabbi: A Teaching
This year, once again, our sedarim are different than we had thought or hoped they would be. Many of us will be alone, or with a small number, at the Seder Table. The echo across the world is…’On Zoom, again?’
So what can make our sedarim meaningful this year, when we are still surrounded by Covid 19, and our own plague of death?
We can.
There are two things we can do to rouse our souls this Pesah. The first is to keep hold of the seder and not let it go. One of our greatest supports during this pandemic has been our Judaism. Services, community programs, learning, Mussar moments and more have given us faith and hope. The constancy of Shabbat reminds us that the blessings of our traditions continue regardless of our circumstances. They give us comfort and something solid to hold onto. Open the Haggadah, read through it, munch on matzah and haroset, and open the door for Elijah. We need him, our angel of hope, this year more than most years.
Once we have opened the Haggadah, we come to my second tip for finding meaning in Pesah this year. Use the seder to help us make sense of the past year.
Make the seder your own. Add something to your seder plate that acknowledges what we’ve been through: an onion for our tears, hand gel, a mask or an extra egg to remind us that new life is on its way. Choose something that marks what you have experienced this year.
Another way to make the seder relevant to you: add some Dayenu verses that express what you are grateful for. Talk about the plague that we have lived with for a year. Did the Israelites feel our fear; live with our uncertainty? What helped them get through trauma? We have a unique taste of their experience because of ours.
The seder should be Jewish and relevant; part of tradition and part of our current lives.
May our sedarim this year help us both mourn and move forward.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
