Friday, January 13, 20 Tevet 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Ellen Allard for HYBRID"From Our Home to Yours" Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Saturday, January 14, 21 Tevet, 10:00AM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Cantor Lorel Zar-Kessler for aHYBRID Shabbat morning Service.
Please join us IN-PERSON ONLY for Torah Study Nosh and Drash at 9:00AM
Hybrid Services will begin at 10:00AM
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
Nosh and Drash: Torah Study with Rabbi Plumb January 14, 9:00AM Click here to RSVP
Please note: On Nosh and Drash Shabbats, our Shabbat morning service will begin at 10:00AM - in-person and on Zooom. Torah Study will be in-person ONLY and begin at 9:00AM
The Embrace Procession Friday, January 13, 12:00PM
Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb, Rabbi Dr. Michael Shire and many other interfaith communities for this special occassion. We will meet at 12:00PM at 15 Newbury Street and walk to the Common.
Today, join me, Leslie Friedman, other members of CMT, together with Central Reform Temple, JCRC, AJC, JALSA, the Israeli Consul General, and more, as we march to Boston Common to unveil The Embrace, the new installation that will honour the lives of Rev Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King. We will gather at 12.00 pm at 15 Newbury street, the home of Central Reform Temple and Emmanuel Church. We will walk as a Jewish community to support all those who seek racial equality, an end to prejudice, and hope in 2023. The unveiling is from 1-2.30 pm.
I am proud that the Jewish community will show our support of, and commitment to, our fellow citizens to help end the suffering caused by hatred and ignorance. In 1965, Reverend King spoke these words at a Shabbat service at Temple Israel, Hollywood CA. Tragically, they are still relevant today.
‘Judaism and Christianity dreamed of… a day when the Kingdom of God would emerge; a day when justice, brotherhood, peace, and the reign and will of God would dwell throughout society. Whenever men have thought seriously of life, they have dreamed of a promised land, and so in a sense we are all moving toward some promised land. …We must be concerned about the poverty-stricken because our destinies are tied together. And somehow in the final analysis, as long as there is poverty in the world, nobody can be totally rich. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. And what affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. -- we’ve been in the mountain of racial injustice long enough. And now it is time for us to move on to that great and noble realm of justice and brotherhood. That is the great struggle taking place in our nation today. It isn’t a struggle just based on a lot of noise; it is a struggle to save the soul of our nation for no nation can rise to its full moral maturity so long as it subjects a segment of its citizenry on the basis of race or color. And somehow we must come to see more than ever before that racial injustice is a cancer in the body politic which must be removed before our moral health can be realized.’
I look forward to walking with you today, and marching with our fellow citizens every day, as we strive to move the ‘ long arc of the moral universe as it bends toward justice.’
Please click on this link to hear a moving explanation of The Embrace, which is being unveiled today on Boston Common.
MLK weekend is an opportunity to do mitzvahs for others. Our mitzvah day will be on February 5, at 2.00 pm as we make blankets and assemble FoodPaks for those in Ukraine. Please join us for a fun and meaningful mitzvah activity. CMT’s friend, Debbie Kardon, will be the speaker.
This Shabbat, I invite you to embrace each other, and reach out to our neighbors, and community. Help Boston be a city of justice and love for all.
Zichronam Livracha, may the memories of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and Coretta Scott King, be for a blessing. May their lives inspire us to make our lives a blessing too.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
