We Remember. International Holocaust Remembrance Day January 27
Shabbat Services this Week are Virtual
Friday, January 28 26 Shevat 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Tutti and Ron Druyan for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Service.
Lay Led Shabbat Morning Service
Saturday, January 29, 27 Shevat 9:30 AM Please join Shabbat Morning Services for a CMT Commuity Lay Led "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
Monday Minyan Begins this Week January 31 7:00 PM
Are you saying Kaddish? Are you observing a yahrzeit? Do you just need a little more spirituality in your week?
Please join us, weekly, Monday evenings for a brief service. Monday Minyan will be on Zoom until further notice.
If you are observing a yahrzeit or saying kaddish and need a minyan on a different evening, plesae let us know and we will make it happen - contact Toni
Monthly Torah Study with Rabbi Dr. Michael Shire
Join us for Listen at Lunch
Celebrate Love as Nadav Ben-ozer and his family come back to our Zoom screens to play and sing some of the most beautiful Jewish love songs.
What would you like hear? Please click below to make requests so that Nadav and his family can prepare.
You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt. (Exodus 23:9)
Referencing Exodus 22:20, and after much discussion of the meanings of these verses, the Talmud mentions a wonderful insight, a teaching of Rabbi Natan: A defect that is in you, do not mention it in another. (Bava Metzia 59b)
Rabbi Lisa Bock suggests " This Mussar teaching guides us toward the qualities of awareness and restraint in the face of harsh judgement. As we look out into the world and are tempted to judge harshly, there is potential for bechira, a moment of choice in which I restrain myself and stop and remember that the world can be a mirror – I have the opportunity to realize that the defect that I see and judge in another, may now be something I recognize within myself. It can be something that I didn’t realize that I do, or something that I wouldn’t ordinarily tolerate in myself, but perhaps to some degree I should."
Our parasha, Mishpatim, reminds us to stop ourselves before we judge someone, and ask ourselves if our criticism is fair, or are we really annoyed because we see ourselves in their behaviour. It also encourages us to show compassion before we judge, because we too often make mistakes and deserve compassion before judgement.
This Shabbat, I hope your heart is filled with compassion for others and for yourselves.
Shabbat Shalom Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
