Yizkor Memorial Book Information is due TODAY! If you haven't sent your information in, please email it to Toni by 5:00 PM.
Friday, August 13, 5 Elul 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Zach Mayer for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service.
Saturday, August 14, 6 Elul 8:30 AM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Cantor Ellen Band for Shabbat morning prayer for our 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
Yizkor Memorial Book Information is due TODAY! If you haven't sent your information in, please email it to Toni by 5:00 PM.
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Shloshim Lois Fleischer Mark Wizansky
Saturday
Sunday Louis Rose Lois Barron Molly Fialkow
Monday Joseph Ehrlich
Tuesday Frances G. Wertheimer
Wednesday Anna Kaminsky Herbert Ober Arlene Bornstein Israel Levine
Thursday David Grau Jack Rosenbaum
Friday Laurence Lapp
From Our Rabbi: A Teaching
Creating a StorahTelling of our Pandemic Journey
Rosh Hashanah is a time for a fresh start, but before we can look forward, the Yamim Nora’im ask us to reflect back on the past year. Many of us do not want to look back at 5781. What a year it has been….
But Judaism is all about using memory to shape the future. The hagim are designed to help us pause and reflect on the healing that needs to take place from this past year. Much of the literature about healing and recovery from trauma suggests that storytelling can help. When we share the stories of our experiences, we find connections with others, and a chance to reframe and better understand our lives. Judaism is based on stories: the Torah, our sacred scroll of stories that guide us through the challenges in our lives.
As we pause at the verge of the New Year, I invite you to help us create a CMT Storahtelling of Our Pandemic Journey. Our CMT Storahtelling will be full of our stories of resilience, sadness, loneliness, discovery, joys, and surprises from this past year. We will combine the stories into a Storahtelling Of Our Pandemic Journey. When we read each other’s experiences, we will find that we are not alone in our feelings and thoughts, and we will learn from each other’s journeys.
Every story matters, whether it is about a small learning or a big accomplishment, or hard moments of grief. Please share it. You can tell it in your own name, or keep it anonymous.
Please share one story that answers one or more of these (you choose which ones to answer):
1. Share a story about something new you discovered about yourself or your life this past year. 2. What is a story that represents this past year for you? 3. What is something you want to change because of this past year? 4. What helped you this past year? Click here for the form to write your story. Sharing our stories makes us feel less alone. Sharing our stories helps us support each other.
May this Shabbat be filled with memories that help change you for the better.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
