Friday, April 29, 28 Nissan 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Zach Mayer for a Hybrid "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service.
Saturday, April 30, 29 Nissan 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Zach Mayer for a Hybrid "From Our Home to Yours" Shabbat Morning Service. Torah raeding by Rose Spitzer
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 Elizabeth Boronkay
Sunday Herbert Rubin Nathan Alpert Sylvia McCall
Monday
Tuesday Sylvia McCall Edward L. Dashefsky Carol Comras
Wednesday Blanche Watchmaker-Kaplan Benjamin Seigel
Thursday Anne Zarit Genya Gaitsgory Sylvia Blotner Dale Jeffrey Moss Sara Rebecca Berkman
Friday Benjamin J. Selig Phyllis O. Goodman Barbara Sack
A Teaching From Our Rabbi
We are in the second week of the counting of the Omer. The trait this week is Gevurah, strength or courage. It is no coincidence that we mark Yom Hashoa this week. With deep sadness, we remember loved ones, precious friends and family, as well as strangers we never knew but mourn because they were part of the chain of our past, present and future. The House of Israel, and the human race, are diminished by their loss. At the same time, we marvel at the resiliency of the Jewish people, and our ability to survive. We are a miraculously strong people despite the horrors we have faced.
Wednesday night, the Brookline Interfaith Clergy Association joined together to commemorate our day of mourning with a powerful concert of music composed in Theresienstadt, performed by the Terezin Music Foundation and the Brookline High School Chorus.
Our Christian and Muslim friends spoke movingly about how important it is for people of faith to stand together against antisemitism and prejudice of all kinds. It was a special honour that our Muslim friends attended, because it was the holiest night of Ramadan, but they chose to stand with us on Yom Hashoa.
Click here to hear a short clip of a composition written by Gideon Klein, who wrote the full piece and many more in Theresienstadt. The notes sound like the cries, hopes and prayers of the composers echoing straight from the streets and bunks of the camp.
The past seems to be creeping up on us in the Ukraine, where once again a tyrant is seeking to dominate others through violence and misinformation. Once again, Europe and the world are at risk because of one man’s ambition. This time, however, the world is repeating and acting on our clarion call–’Never Again.’ This time, Europe and the free nations of the world are fighting back in defense of democracy. We Jews are helping those who once hated us, but are now victims themselves.
I am proud to be a Jew at this time in history. Our survivors are role models of resiliency; our murdered loved ones remind us that tyranny and prejudice must be fought in every corner of the globe; our neighbors of faith stand with us; and our Jewish community is thriving.
This Shabbat, we celebrate our gevurah, our strength and courage as a people, with joyous music. I look forward to dancing with you tonight, and singing with you tomorrow, led by the passionate and talented Zach Mayer. We will offer a special blessing to Zach on Shabbat morning, for his upcoming wedding.
Shabbat Shalom Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
