Friday, April 16, 5 Iyyar 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Zach Mayer for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service.
Saturday, April 17, 6 Iyyar 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Jackson Mercer for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Service.
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Join Rabbi Dr. Michael Shire for Torah Brunch Study following services.
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 Phyllis O. Goodman Benjamin Selig Barbara Sack
Sunday Max Rorthstein
Monday Alfred Cutter Sonia Gordon Mindick Dorothy Adelson
Tuesday Paul Gilson
Wednesday Alan . Freedman Jennie Clark Goldie Figler Bertram Swerling
Thursday Abraham Goldstein Ethel Benjamin Robert Diamond
Friday Joseph Schwartz Max Feinberg Joseph Berman Israel Kazis Dexter J. Hyman
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.
Count Tonight Day 20 April 16 Hod she’ b’ Tiferet--humility in beauty
Today is the 19th day of the Omer, and the spiritual focus is hod she’ b’ tiferet--humility in beauty. Mussar defines beauty as the shining of inner good qualities.
Tonight we will count the 20th day of the Omer. The Omer, as you know, is the counting of the days between Pesah and Shavuot. In the Bible, it was the counting from the barley harvest until the wheat harvest. We counted sheaves and growth of badly needed crops. At the end of the 49 days of the Omer, we could celebrate at Shavuot, and appreciate the gifts of the harvest.
During the Omer, many collect sheaves of wheat every day, so that by the end there are many sheaves.
We have 30 more days of the Omer. We have been promised a matching donation of $30,000 by generous donors. We are asking you to help us grow our crop of spiritual, communal, intellectual and pastoral ‘wheat.’ We need to match the $30,000 by the end of the Omer, so that we can harvest $60,000. Watch our artistic sheaves of wheat get coloured in with every donation, week by week over the next four weeks.
Throughout the pandemic, Congregation Mishkan Tefila has been a constant support for all of us. Over and over the community has revealed its inner beauty. Together, we have shopped, called, delivered medicines, sent fun packages at Purim and Pesah, studied racial injustice, sang, prayed, laughed, drank tea with the team, watched movies, shared heartaches and illness, recovery and sorrow for and with each other. We have learned to zoom, mute, unmute, join breakout rooms, and pray from digital siddurim. Twice, we have eaten haroset together, and many times, we have sung with our CMT family musicians in Israel.
The pandemic is not over. The need remains. We are planning many ways in the coming year of continuing to lift each other up and nourish our minds and souls, whether you are online or not.
We need your help to do it. Please, make a donation in honour or memory of someone, and make your contribution to our Omer harvest.
30 days for $30,000. Let’s get farming!
I wish you a Shabbat filled with beauty and gratitude, Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
