Friday, November 18, 24 Cheshvan 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb for a HYBRID "From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Saturday, November 119, 25 Cheshvan, 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Cantor Lorel Zar-Kessler for aHYBRID 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
Interfaith Thanksgiving Service
Join Rabbi Plumb at the Brookline Interfaith Thanksgiving Worship Service Come center yourself for the Thanksgiving holiday at a service with readings, music and prayer. We will honor our blessings and share them with the Brookline food Pantry. Please bring goods or money to share for the Brookline Food Pantry.
Congregations participating: All Saints Parish, First Parish in Brookline, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Brookline, TBZ Brookline, Temple Ohabei Shalom, Sinai Brookline, First Church in Chestnut Hill, United Parish in Brookline, Center Communities of Brookline, Congregation Kehillath Israel Congregation Mishkan Tefila, Brookline Muslim Friends, Brookline Church of Christ, Yusuf Mosque Brighton, 2life Communities.
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Saturday
Sunday Doris Cohen
Monday Louis Silberstein Pearl Posner-Goodes Sidney Katz
Tuesday Samuel Stahl Edward Ted Levine
Wednesday Ida Hoffman Jennie Leiman Israel Einstein William Kaplan
Thursday Rose Schwartz
Friday Harry Freedman
A Teaching from Our Rabbi
Our parasha, Chayei Sarah, begins with the death of Sarah. The Torah tells us how old she was when she died –127. But it tells us in an unusual way. It tells us that Sarah was 100 years old, 20 years old and 7 years old. We are meant to add up the years of her life. Why does the Torah give us her age in this layered fashion? Because we are meant to notice and be grateful for her life in all its varieties and stages.
Thanksgiving gives us the chance to do the same. During this national holiday, we have the chance to think back on the past year, with all its ups and downs, and celebrate the good.
As Jews, despite anti-semitism, we continue to be grateful to live in this country where we can participate actively in society, have our voices heard, and even be elected to office.
I offer you this Thanksgiving prayer and Psalm 100 which express our hopes this year.
A Thanksgiving Prayer - by Rabbi Naomi Levy For the laughter of the children, For my own life breath, For the abundance of food on this table, For the ones who prepared this sumptuous feast, For the roof over our heads, The clothes on our backs, For our health, And our wealth of blessings, For this opportunity to celebrate with family and friends, For the freedom to pray these words Without fear, In any language, In any faith, In this great country, Whose landscape is as vast and beautiful as her inhabitants. Thank You, God, for giving us all these. Amen.
In thanksgiving : Psalm 100 Make a joyful noise to the Eternal, all the earth. Worship the Divine with gladness; come before God with joyful songs. Know that the Eternal is God. It is You who made us, and we are Yours; we are Your people, the flock of Your pasture. Enter God’s gates with thanksgiving and God’s courts with praise; give thanks to the Eternal and praise God’s holy name. For Adonai is good and God’s love endures forever; Your faithfulness continues through all generations.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
