Friday, April 1, II Adar 29 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Tutti and Ron Druyan for a VIRTUAL "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service.
Saturday, April 2, 1 Nissan 9:30 AM Please join Cantor Ellen Band for a VIRTUAL “From Our Home to Yours’ Shabbat Morning service.
PLEASE NOTE: TORAH STUDY WITH RABBI DR. MICHAEL SHIRE HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
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
An Evening with Author Charles Dellheim April 6 - 7:30 PM
If you are observing a yahrzeit or saying kaddish and need a minyan on a different evening, please let us know and we will make it happen - contact Toni.
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Saturday Jacob Elman Abraham Hyman
Sunday Thelma Dreezer Ruth Shapiro Murray Albertson Benjamin Sack Abe Wagner Jack Wizansky Reverend Michael Domba
Wednesday Dr Nathan Goodman Abraham Madow Dora Lom Ida Adwin
Thursday David Magid
Friday Harry Miller Nathan Alexander Baer
Notes from Co-President Sharon Diamond
Dear Friends,
As we approach the holiday of Passover, I feel very nostalgic about past celebrations with my family. My mother was the matriarch of both her and my father’s families.
We started cleaning the house the week before Pesach, gathering our chametz, bagging it and then selling it to Rev. Domba, our former ritual director. Once the chametz was gone, the real cleaning began. Every drawer and every cabinet that contained food was cleaned. I got to pick out the contact paper that was put on the countertops. My Great Uncle Harry would come with his blowtorch and clean the oven. It was quite an undertaking!
I loved helping my mother cook for Pesach and she carefully gave me instructions to be a good helper. Peeling potatoes and carrots was one of my many chores. I would also set the dining room table impeccably with beautiful linen cloths and napkins, china, silverware, crystal glasses, all polished and cleaned for the holiday table.
We had up to 35 people at our seders. There were kid's tables where we would sneak candy during the seder as well as wine. It was wonderful having so many cousins around. My father would lead the seder, reclining against a pillow, whose pillowcase had been embroidered by my Bubbe. He would have everyone participate and when he thought you had said enough, he would say, “Next!" My favorite part was when he would break the Afikoman and wrap it up in a napkin. When we were not paying attention, he would hide it somewhere in our house where no one could ever possibly find it -- maybe a fuse box 10’ off the floor or inside the piano. He would just sit and chuckle when we scoured the house, going from room to room until my mother got a bit upset!
Those wonderful memories have stayed with me all these years and I hope we, as a community and as Jews, can celebrate together and continue to make new memories for our family and friends for many more generations to come.
Best, Sharon Diamond Co-President
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
