Friday, April 9, 28 Nisan 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Ellen Allard for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service.
Saturday, April 10, 29 Nisan 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Rabbi Lev Friedman 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.
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 Ann Kaplan Rubin Jane Grinberg Ernest Katz
Sunday Elizabeth Brononkay Theodore D. Mann
Monday Nathan Alpert Sylvia McCall
Tuesday
Wednesday Carol Comras Edward L. Dashefsky
Thursday Blanche Watchmaker-Kaplan Benjamin Seigel
Friday Anne Zarit Sylvia Blotner Dale Jeffrey Moss Sara Rebecca Berkman Genya Gaitsgory
Lay Led Shabbat Service Saturday, May 1, 9:30 AM
We are excited to announce that we will be having a Mishkan Tefila Community Lay Led Shabbat Service on Saturday, May 1, 9:30 AM. We would love you to participate - lead a prayer (in Hebrew or English), do a reading, or even give the D'var! Together we will create a beautiful Shabbat morning experience. Click here to let us know how you would like to participate.
From Our Rabbi: A Teaching
Counting the Omer with Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Count Tonight Day 13 April 9 Netzah she’ be’ gevurah, Determination or Persistence within Discipline
Yesterday, we commemorated Yom Hashoa. We mourned and cried together as we heard powerful memories from survivors Mary Erlich, Meira Davidi, Harvey Lewin and Joyce Levin. We stood with the children of survivors, and children of our congregation, as they lit candles for our precious 6 million souls. Every year, on Yom Hashoa, we hear the stories and commit to remembering them and passing them on to others. We show netzah she’ be gevurah, determination within discipline, by holding fast to these memories, and honouring our survivors year after year. We will not stop. We will persist in reminding the world of what humanity is capable of. We will continue to model resiliency in the face of hatred, hope in the face of fear, faith despite prejudice and a love of our Judaism as an antidote to anti-semitism. Despite their suffering and terrible losses, our survivors taught us last night that one must ‘never lose ourselves, our dancing or our singing’, (Harvey Lewin); never stop asking ‘why and how could this happen’ (Joyce Levin); and always appreciate those non-Jews who stand by our side against hatred and evil (Mary Erlich and Meira Davidi). Their commitment to Mishkan Tefila, and Jewish life as a whole is a model of netzah she’ be’ gevurah, consistent, constant devotion to our people.
May God bless them, and all our people, with life, healing and comfort. Nachamu, Nachamu my people. May God bring comfort to all who mourn, and strength to all of us.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
