Friday, February 4 3 Adar 1 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Ellen Allard for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Service.
Saturday, February 5 4 Adar 1 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Cantor Ellen Band for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Service.
Join as we bless Cantor Ellen Band for her birthday.
Torah Study is back! Join Rabbi Dr. Michael Shire for Torah Study, immediately following Shabbat Morning Services - on the same Zoom. (start time approximately 11:00 AM)
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
Weekday Minyans This Wek
Support Your Community - We Need You for Minyan!
Monday, February 7 - 7:00 PM Tuesday, February 8 - 7:00 PM Wednesday, February 9 - 4:30 PM
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
Weekly Torah Yoga Fridays, 10:15 - 11:30 AM
Combine Yoga and Judaism for a spiritual experience that uplifts body and soul
We bring this class in conjunction with Temple Beth Torah, Meliville, NY, taught by Rabbi Susie Moskowitz.
We hope this helps us all get through these challenging times.
This accessible yoga practice is a moving meditation infused with Jewish themes. It is appropriate for all levels of yoga practice and Torah practice! Comfortable clothing and a mat recommended.
Rabbi Moskowitz is the Senior Rabbi at Temple Beth Torah in Melville, NY where she has served for 26 years. She is a 500hr RYT yoga instructor in the lineage of Krishnamacharya. She loves combining Judaism and yoga and looking for ways they connect. She is Rabbi Plumb’s chavruta study partner.
Watch for the Zoom link in your R.S.V.P. confirmation email!
*Please note that there is no class on February 25
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Shloshim Ziva Paley
Saturday Herbert Heshy Waxman Lillian Sagan Jacob S. Carle
Sunday
Monday Haim Liftmanovich Abraham Roblin
Tuesday Estelle Bravman Sarah Heyman
Wednesday Constance V. Medcalf Dr. Maurice Tolman William Erlich Melvin A. Ross Allick Eidelman
Thursday Jeanette Perlmutter Peter Kaplan Florence Baron Esther Magid Maurice Greenspon Stanley Gaffin
Friday
A Teaching From Our Rabbi
V'asu li mikdash v'shochanti b'tocham. Make me a sanctuary so that I can dwell within you.
This week God becomes an architect and presents the blueprints for the Mishkan, including the construction materials and furnishings.
Before the pitch, God reminds the people the purpose of the Mishkan - to feel close to God, and God to feel connected to God's children. It's as if the Divine says 'Build me a multi-family house so we can live together for all time.'
Torah commentators have hindsight however. They see that the house doesnt last forever. The Mishkan, the Temple, gets destroyed by the Greeks then the Romans. So where will God dwell?
The word B'tocham, within them, still applies. 'Within them' has come to mean 'within each of us.' Judaism believes that our bodies are a Mishkan, a holy vessel for the divine soul the Creator placed within each of us at our birth. Part of our task as human beings is to use our bodies to help us access our inner holy souls. For example, when I use my hands to light Shabbat candles, and close my eyes as I bless them, my soul becomes calm, and I can feel its shining beauty within me.
Beginning next week, we will be offering a zoom Torah Yoga class every Friday morning, at 10.15 am. This will be a chance to use Jewish themes to help us stretch our bodies in order to intentionally, mindfully, feel the holiness dwelling within us. It is another way that CMT is providing to help us all through this stressful winter. Join my good friend, chevruta partner and trained yoga teacher, Rabbi Susie Moskowitz, as she guides us toward the merging of body and soul.
This Shabbat may we feel God's presence filling us within and without. May we each see the beauty of our own souls.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
P.S.Enjoy the song created based on our verse above, that we will sing this Shabbat.
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
