Friday, September 30, 5 Tishrei 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Ellen Allard for a HYBRID "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Saturday, October 1, 6 Tishrei, 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Adirchai Haberman-Browns for a HYBRID special Shabbat Shuva 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
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Shloshim Mark Halpern Anne Sheila Zeger Arthur Dickerman David Cohen Esther Rubin
Saturday Samuel Greenberg
Sunday Merton Brandes
Monday Dorothy Gruskin
Tuesday Phyllis Seresky Barbara Gray
Wednesday Saul Gershkowitz
Thursday Harry Diamond Helen Covel
Friday Miriam Harel
A Teaching from Our Rabbi
On Shabbat Shuvah, we celebrate the beginning of a new year. Join me on Sunday night at 7.00 pm for our annual joyfully moving concert with our wonderful High Holy Day musicians, plus guests. Hopefully we will be outside, so bring your jackets just in case! If you get chilly, you can always dance with me to warm up! On Shabbat Shuvah, we reflect on the past and prepare for Yom Kippur. Join me today and for the week ahead as we ask ourselves hard questions.
Let Us Ask Ourselves Hard Questions
by Jack Reimer and adapted by Rabbi Plumb Let us ask ourselves hard questions for this is the time for truth.
How much time did we waste In the year that is now gone?
Did we fill our days with life?
Or were they dull and empty?
Was there love inside our home?
Or was the affectionate word left unsaid?
Was there a real companionship with our children?
Or was there a living together and a growing apart?
Were we a help to our mates?
Or did we take them for granted?
How was it with our friends?
Were we there when they needed us or not?
The kind deed: did we perform it or postpone it?
The unnecessary gibe: did we say it or hold it back?
Did we protect others by wearing masks or testing when in doubt?
Or did we ignore the needs of others for our own desires?
Have we turned to our faith and religion for support?
Or did we assume nothing was there for us?
Did we live by false values?
Did we deceive others?
Did we deceive ourselves?
Were we sensitive to the rights and feelings?
Of those who worked for us?
Did we acquire only possessions?
Or did we acquire new insights as well?
Did we fear what the crowd would say?
And keep quiet when we should have spoken out?
Did we mind only our own business? Or did we feel the heartbreak of others?
Have we contributed to our synagogue with our time, attention or financial resources?
Or did we ignore our home community to fend for itself in hard times?
Did we live right?
And if not, Then have we learned and will we change?
This Shabbat, may your homes be filled with teshuvah/ repentance. May your hearts be open and ready to seek and give forgiveness.
I hope to see you in person on Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur.
With strong Covid safety protocols in place, beautiful music and a room full of love, we will have a warm environment that will help you feel at home once again. Bring your friends and families, and help them find forgiveness, comfort and joy too.
