Friday, October 1, 25 Tishrei 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Zach Mayer for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service.
Saturday, October 2, 26 Tishrei 9:30 AM Please join 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
Stay Tuned for Mussar Class Sign-Up! Classes will begin the second week of October!
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Shloshim Stanley Becker Florence Mann Dr. Richard Bravman
Saturday Irving Paley
Sunday
Monday Theresa Blumer Abraham Cohen
Tuesday Charles Silk Harry Blotner Sarah Korbman
Wednesday James Holbert Abraham Pugatch
Thursday Miriam Harel Laura Brown
Friday David Eastman Richard Hyman Florence Kaplan Louis Cutter
From Our Rabbi: A Teaching
Bereshit….we begin again. A new year, a new Torah, a new us. I love bereshit - both the parasha and the possibility of new visions and the creativity inherent within an unwritten future.
But there is complexity in Bereshit. As individuals, we can't start a new year completely from scratch as if we were once again the first humans, as much as I wish we could. We bring the past with us wherever we go. Our parasha reminds us of this. It ends with a list of ancestors and who begot who, who died and who was born, finally arriving at Noah, the archetype of our next parasha.
Bereshit asks us a fundamental human question: how do we work with our past so we can begin again? I am asking myself this question. I will soon be visiting the grave of my father for the first time since I buried him in Houston two years ago. His death continues to feel very recent to me, which is why I need to finally see his gravestone. It feels like I am living out the end of Parashat Bereshit - starting a new year by remembering those who came before me.
The loss of my parents continues to bring sadness but Parashat Bereshit reminds me to consider what my father would say to me while I stand at his grave: let go of what you cannot change. Face forward. Create a new future using the lessons from the past.
May this Shabbat Bereshit bring us sweet memories from the past, and the courage to create a new future for ourselves.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
