Friday, April 22, 21 Nissan 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Ellen Allard for a Hybrid Erev Last Day Pesach & Kabbalat Shabbat Service.
Saturday, April 16, 15 Nissan 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Cantor Ellen Band for a Hybrid Last Day of Pesach, Yizkor and Shabbat Morning 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
Festive Friday May 6, 6:00 PM Celebrate Yom Ha'atzmaut
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 Robert Shaw Barbara Gillson Susan deVries
Sunday
Monday Maurice Schuster Harold Glazer Julius Lieberman Charles Cohen Alexander Brown Dr. Edward Krensky
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday Samu Stein Malva Stein Philip Goldstein Ralph Berman Melvin Wintman Klara Stein Endre Stein Antonia Stein Edward Rosenthal
Friday Ernest Katz Jane Grinber Ann Kaplan Rubin
A Teaching From Our Rabbi
Dayenu. We sang it last week, and some of you (who had to move seder night to this Shabbat due to Covid) will be singing it tonight or tomorrow night. Dayenu. It would have been enough. Dayenu can also mean it is enough for us.
Dayenu is a powerfully appropriate name of a national Jewish climate action organization. Yesterday, I was part of a Dayenu team that organized a Passover climate change rally in Boston.
There were rallies held in 19 cities this past week, targeting 5 banks who promised to divest of fossil fuels, and support alternative energy projects, and have not followed up on their commitments.
Coincidentally, the end of Pesah falls on Earth Day, today, this year. Dayenu. Enough is enough. The plagues of global warming, fracking, destruction of rain forests, irresponsible building, and general disregard for the planet have got to end, now. Dayenu. Our planet is too precious to destroy. It is time to cross over into a new world of energy conservation, creative, new technologies, and radical lifestyle changes.
The Promised Land of a rescued planet awaits.
I was thrilled to join with several congregants at the rally. With me are Leslie Friedman, Cheryl Dokser, Phyllis Sandel, and Evelyn Ophir. Together with Rev. Jane Redmont, Lila Horberg Decter, I delivered a letter to the Chase Bank.
On this final Shabbat of Pesah, as we mark Yizkor tomorrow morning, I hope your memories of loved ones who once shared your seder table will bring you comfort. I pray that the Hallel we sing will lift your spirits and give you hope for a renewed world.
L’shana Ha’ba’ah b’yirushalayim, Next year may our planet, and all who dwell on it, be free.
Shabbat Shalom and Hag Sameah, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
