Friday, September 16, 20 Elul, 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Rose Spitzer for a HYBRID "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Saturday, September 17, 21 Elul, 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Cantor Lorel Zar-Kessler for a HYBRID "From our Home to Yours" 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
High Holy Days at Mishkan Tefila
High Holy Day Tickets have been mailed out to all members in good standing.
If you have not returned your Annual Dues Renewal Form, please click here or email Toni to make arrangements.
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Shloshim Arthur Dickerman David Cohen Esther Rubin
Saturday Edward I. Bardfield
Sunday Helen Wise Ida Oppenheim
Monday Sarah Scheer Izzy Rose
Tuesday Gussie Reszelbach Annette M. Baker Ida Mae Kahn Daniel Yanovich
Wednesday
Thursday Nellie Lank Jerold Levin Abraham Katz
Friday Joan Cutler
A Teaching from Our Rabbi
‘Raise your eyes and look about: They have all gathered and come to you. Your sons shall be brought from afar, Your daughters like babes on shoulders. As you behold, you will glow; Your heart will throb and thrill…’ (Isaiah 60: 4-5)
Our Haftarah for this Shabbat foretells our experience at the High Holy Days this year. In effect, it tells us to lift our eyes from our zoom screens, look about at the world outside our homes.
Gather and come. Bring your children. All shall come from afar.
We have been separated for so long. This year, bring your masks, and hand sanitisers; come and gather. As we behold each other face to face, we will glow–externally and internally. The sounds of our voices co-mingling will warm our souls, and we will remember what harmony sounds like. Our hearts will thrill.
Sit with loved ones, old friends and new. Make a new friend at shul. Wear your mask, sit where you feel comfortable (there will be a mask only section available, and socially distanced seating), feel the mahzor in your hand, and the Torah in your arms. Hear the sounds of the drum, sax, flute and the air purifier.
The ark is ready and open for you. Come from afar. Return again, to the land of your soul.
I can’t wait to welcome you home.
This Shabbat, may you remember how important you are in the House of Israel. May you be filled with hope for a new year, and a longing for reconnection–with yourself, with the ones you love, and with the Jewish people.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
