Friday, April 23, 12 Iyyar 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Ellen Allard for a  virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service.
Join us following services for Kidudsh and HaMotzi, led by Judith Freedman-Caplan, in honor of her birthday.
Saturday, April 24, 13 Iyyar 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Cantor Ellen Band for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Service.
Judith Freedman-Caplan will be sharing a D'var Torah with us.
Join us following services for Kidudsh and HaMotzi, led by Irene Gaffin, in memory of her borther, Harold Glazer
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
Join our new Shir HaNeshama: Song of the Soul Facebook Group! Click here to JOIN
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Shloshim Earle Kazis Herbert Rubin
Saturday Laura Finkielsztein Irene Gross
Sunday Rubin Lom Morton Gondelman William Gordon Charles Blumer
Monday
Tuesday John Kaitz Abraham S. Cohen Jeanette Gondelman Geri Graff
Wednesday Lena Levy
Thursday Celia Katz Joseph Perles Israel Katz Saul Glina
Friday Beulah Katz
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 27 April 23 Hod she’ b’ netzah Humility within endurance.Â
Today is the 26th day of the Omer. The spiritual focus today is a combination of Hod she’ b’ netzah, humility within endurance.  The word Hod is also connected to the word Hod’a’ah, gratitude. So, another way to view the confluence of Hod sh’b’netzah is gratitude and endurance. Throughout this pandemic, Mishkan Tefila has endured, and more than that, thrived.  Â
This week, our parasha is Acharai Mot-Kedoshim. Parashat Kedoshim is the original source of Mussar. We are told over and over Kedoshim Tihiyu, You shall be holy. Mussar gives us a path to follow toward holiness, toward being our best selves. CMT has become a centre of Mussar in New England for two main reasons. First, we are creating a community that is based in holiness, and the values of Mussar. We want our community to be a holy one, guided by ethical traits and values. Secondly, we know how meaningful it is to see ourselves and others as children of God.  When we all truly believe that each person is a holy soul, then society will be transformed, racism will be diminished, and differences will be appreciated rather than lead to fear.Â
This week we are in the middle of our 30 x 30 fundraising campaign. We hope to raise $30,000 in the next 30 days of the Omer. Generous donors have offered to match that $30,000. By contributing to the campaign, today, you can practice hod she’b’ netzah, and show gratitude and appreciation for Mishkan’s consistent, enduring commitment to ethics, holiness and to being there for you. Â
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
