Friday, December 17, 13 Tevet 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Ellen Allard for an in-person and virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Saturday, December 18, 14 Tevet 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Rabbi Lev Friedman with Torah reading by Rose Spitzer for Shabbat morning prayer for our in person and 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
Shloshim Adele Hoffman Leo Karas
Saturday
Sunday Hannah Krimsky Fannie Florence Thomas Alpert
Monday Benjamin Kern Sondra Sarter Lee Miller Herbert Hoffman
Tuesday Bertha L. Seglin
Wednesday Miriam Sagan
Thursday Esta Cutter
Friday
From Our Rabbi: A Teaching
Every year, I look forward to Christmas. Why do I, a rabbi, happily anticipate this winter festival? Because it signals the start of my real favourite festival: Limmud Festival UK. Limmud is normally a week long celebration of Jewish learning, theater, art, music, politics, film, and the best schmoozing on the planet with some of the top journalists, scholars, movie directors,comedians, and more. It has been held over Christmas for 40 years. Ellen Allard and I first met at Limmud years ago, and Deborah Lipstadt and I had some good conversations in the bar one night at Limmud, pre-covid. It’s a place for community, learning, discovery, empowerment, diversity, debate, laughing, dancing, families, volunteering. Limmud Festival is a place for all of us to discover something new. I have wanted to bring you to Limmud Festival in the UK ever since we moved to Boston. Now I can. This year, Limmud will be online, so we can all go!
Join me, and my family, at this wonderful, high quality experience. You will get to learn from interfaith leaders, UK and Israeli political leaders, the Queen’s hat designer (yes, really), and me. I’ll be teaching a session on the Mussar middah of tochecha/rebuke (ie how and when to tell someone off!) on Sunday December 26. The website for more information and to register is below. Let’s study together this Christmas, and I’ll meet you in the (virtual) bar for a drink after our sessions!
In the meantime, please come in person to shul this Shabbat morning, to celebrate Miriam Drukman’s birthday. It will be a joyous morning! I look forward to seeing you in person or online, tonight and tomorrow.
May this Shabbat be filled with a desire for learning, laughter, and Limmud,
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
