Shabbat Morning Services this week areVIRTUAL ONLY
Friday, September 23, 27 Elul, 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Ellen Allard for a HYBRID "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Saturday, September 24, 28 Elul, 9:30 AM Please join Cantor Ellen Band for a VIRTUAL "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
Mazel Tov to Paul and Laurie Gershkowitz, on this weekends upcoming wedding of their son, Brett to Michael Vonnoh
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Shloshim Anne Sheila Zeger Arthur Dickerman David Cohen Esther Rubin
Saturday
Sunday Harriette Gordon Richard Bravman Hnery Goldstein
Monday Lillian Ruth Pach
Tuesday Howard Dickerman Florence Kaitz Greenberg
Wednesday Saul Gershkowitz
Thursday
Friday Samuel Golov Frances Stahler Boris Bob Cohen
A Teaching from Our Rabbi
I loved walking into my great aunts home in Dallas Texas when I was young. We always came in through the back door which led into the pale pink kitchen. I would step in and hear the familiar creak of the yellow linoleum. The smells of oil paint from her studio mixed with the aroma of her famous oatmeal cookies wafted around me like a warm blanket. Opening her door filled me with joyful anticipation.
We are about to walk through the doorway to a new year. We have no idea what to expect on the other side. But step through we must. 5783 will arrive whether we want it or not.
Rosh Hashanah helps us actively choose to open the door to our future, rather than simply fall through it. Taking the time to come to shul over the two days helps us reflect on the past year, and rest in God’s arms as we take the opportunity to breathe deeply and gently. The services help us recover from all that we have lived through in 5782. The prayers, music, and community all combine to help us think about what we want for the year and how to create it.
When we step through the door of 384 Harvard Street, we will find special gifts this year: kehillah/community, tikvah/hope, and ho’da’ah/ gratitude. These are the qualities that we have highlighted in our High Holy Day 5783 logo, to remind us all of what Judaism and CMT offer to lift us into the new year. Embrace hope, celebrate our blessings, and do it all in gratitude for the Jewish community, and your CMT family.
I wish you and your loved ones a Shanah Tovah Umetukah, a sweet, good New Year,
Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
