Friday, February 11 10 Adar 1 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Ellen Allard for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Service.
Saturday, February 12 11 Adar 1 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Rabbi Lev Friedman for a virtual "From Our Home to Yours" Service.
Caryl Goodman will be doing Kiddush and HaMotzi in memory of her grandmother, Hattie Goodman.
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
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
Jewish Guided Meditation with
Rabbi Marcia Plumb February 23, 7:00 PM
Find calm within Jewish meditation.
Jewish meditation has been part of Jewish spirituality for centuries. Join Rabbi Plumb as she shares her love of Jewish guided meditation. We will draw upon texts to help us find inner calm. Learn tips for how to meditate, if you are a beginner, and enhance your own meditation practice if you are a regular meditator.
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Shloshim Allan Goldman Ziva Paley
Saturday Victor Mitchell Ben Richard Bronstein Sadie Hass Schneider Norman Sudikoff
Sunday Frances Aronson
Monday Frank Lapp H. Stuart Seglin, M.D. Hiram Dwoskin Eva Stone Kaplan Shlomo Posner Norman Robbins Irving Fisher
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday Arnold David Mindick Wolfred Hyman
Friday Hilal Kaplan Max Hoffman Pauline Krensky Mildred Greenspon Leon Jacobs
A Teaching From Our Rabbi
This week, in Parashat Tetzaveh, we read about the high priests, the Kohen Gadol, and their powerful role as channellers of God’s presence. They enter the Holy of Holies to speak with God, and , eventually, will offer the sacrifices for the people.
We keep the special role of the Cohanim by giving them the first aliyah in the Torah service. Does that make the Cohanim more holy than the rest of us?
Sadly for Cohanim, the answer is clearly no. In fact, we are told that we are a kingdom of priests. All in the Jewish community are priestly, and holy.
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg explains how holiness is found for all of us: ‘Holiness is arrived at when one lives life in its fullest dimensions, when one experiences the physical and the spiritual in interaction with each other. When I meet another person and interact casually, even if I treat them honestly and respectfully, I am living properly. But when I deepen the exchange into a relationship, into caring and loving the other, then I get to know them in depth as an image of God. I experience them not just as another person, but as a wondrous creature that is of infinite value, equal and unique. This is a moment of holy encounter.
Each of us can…’ turn themselves into a conduit to lovingly channel God’s blessings—the blessing of vitality and depth in life—to the rest of the population living in the not yet fully repaired society.’
This Shabbat, join me in gratitude for the honest, respectful, loving relationships in our lives. May we see the holiness in all.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
