Friday, June 23, 4 Tamuz 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Ellen Allard for a Hybrid Kabbalat Shabbat Service.
Saturday, June 24, 5 Tamuz, 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Cantor Ellen Band for a HYBRID 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
Join the Zoom Call with Aharon Barak this Sunday, June 25 12PM EST
This coming Sunday, there will be a zoom call with Justice Aharon Barak, the former head of Israeli Supreme Court.
The call is sponsored by Boston4DemocracyinIsrael. They are Israelis and allies who demonstrate every other week on Boston Common on Sundays. Rabbi Plumb goes regularly and would love to see you there.
Rabbi Plumb will be on the zoom call, and welcomes you to join her. Please feel free to share this with others.
This event is hosted by the Boston Protest Organizers for Democracy in Israel Check their website for more information click here.
Mazel Tov to Aaron Gau, son of Cheryl and Daniel Grau, on his graduation from the Police Academy.
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Shloshim Barry "Buddy" Hyman Neil Levin Alan Werksman Roni Sue Zeidenberg Charlotte Michaelson Frank
Saturday David Adwin Bernyce Neitlich Bernyce Neitlich
Sunday A.E. Allschwang Morton Bardfield
Monday David Shire Anna R. Hyman Melvin Gordon
Tuesday Miriam Sherman
Wednesday Dr. Leonard Nathan Bertha Lipsitz
Thursday Doris Graubart
Friday Maisie Wolfson
A Teaching from our Rabbi
Strawberries ready to be picked.
Gabriella with one of her "most favorite" strawberries.
It has become a family tradition that we go fruit picking all throughout the Summer and Fall. Gabriella and I excitedly watch the social media posts from the local farms anxiously anticipating the day when we see “Strawberry Picking Open Today!”. I should share that I am highly allergic to all things strawberry, but when your six year old wants to spend the day outside, walking and enjoying nature, you say “Of course we will go” and make sure you have benadryl waiting in the car.
As I was digging through the leaves to help her find “only the best and silliest” strawberries, my arms were quickly breaking out in hives from digging through the leaves of the plant. My mind started wandering about the irony of how I am pushing through the dirt and darkness of the leaves to get to a fruit that is always associated with sun and warmth. The strawberry depends on the work of its leaves to shelter, nurture and protect this delicate and delicious fruit much as Moses depended on G-d to shelter and protect him and the Jewish people in the desert.
In parashat Korach this week, we see that Aaron and his sons are again given the command to be the priests in charge of all the sacred offerings. The priestly rituals became the leaves to protect the Jewish people. This allowed us to flourish much like the berry of the strawberry plant. Today the rituals have become the traditions that connect us, much like Brandon and I connect with Gabriella on our fruit picking adventures.
I hope on this Shabbat, you all enjoy the fruit and warmth of the season.
Shabbat Shalom, Lorraine Kalp
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
