Join us tonight, Friday, July 7 at 6:00PM for ourHYBRID Kabbalat Shabbat with SPARK Attendees. See details below.
Friday, July 7, 18 Tamuz 6:00 PM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Ellen Allard for a HYBRID Kabbalat Shabbat Service with SPARK Attendees.
Saturday, July 8, 19 Tamuz, 9:30 AM Please join Rabbi Plumb and Cantor Ellen Band for a VIRTUAL ONLYShabbat 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 us tonight, Friday, July 7 at 6:00PM for Kabbalat Shabbat with SPARK Atendees
Join us, Friday, July 7 at 6:00PM for Kabbalat Shabbat as we hear from some of our SPARK trip attendess.
Leslie Friedman, Rose Spitzer, and Samantha Reed will share pictures and stories from their experience celebrating Israel's 75th birthday on the CJP SPARK trip.
Happy Summer! CMT SUMMER 2023 SHABBAT SERVICE SCHEDULE
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Shloshim Harriet Charnow Robbins Majorie Tichnor Charlotte Michaelson Frank Roni Sue Zeidenberg Alan Werksman
Saturday Nellie R. Boyer Mary Stone Mary Cohen
Sunday Bessie Rose Fred Ehrlich
Monday Ann R. Cohn
Tuesday Harvey Levine Rose Halper
Wednesday Bernard Florence
Thursday Mary Sands Mary Sands Sheila Carle Lichter Dr. Kermit Katz
Friday Mollie L. Goodstein
A Teaching from our Rabbi
Dear Friends,
I hope you had a good holiday week and enjoyed some fireworks.
I have had a week of reflection, expansion, and contraction, all at the same time. I am contracting because, as of July 1, I have reduced my hours and responsibilities at CMT to part time. I will be coming to my office on Tuesdays, and I would love to have coffee with you at the new cafe attached to our building, Bakey. It has THE best babka.
I am available to speak to or meet you anytime if Tuesdays don’t work for you. I will be leading some Shabbat services, and of course, all of High Holy Days.
I will also be continuing pastoral care.
I am expanding because I have begun to work part time at the Rashi School. I will be focusing on curriculum development, community building and partnerships. I will also be teaching Mussar in the community so please let me know if you’d like to continue, or begin, studying.
My reflecting came as a result of the deaths this past week of two strong special beloved women in our congregation, Margie Tichnor, the mother of Nancy Lejfer, and Harriet Charnow Robbins, the wife of Bill Seidman. I am lucky to have known them both well, and learned from their wisdom, integrity, and compassion. They both raised four devoted children, and are mourned by many grandchildren, and in Margie’s case, great grandchildren. They both found strength and joy in their Jewish faith and observance and led many gatherings around the Shabbat and festival tables.
When I pray the Amidah silently, and I come to the names of our matriarchs and patriarchs, I often add the names of my family ancestors and people who have helped shape me. This Shabbat, after I recite Sarah, Rebekka, Rachel, and Leah, I will be including Margie and Harriet. I will miss their humor and warmth. Our prayers go out to their families. Zichronan livracha, may their memories be a blessing.
This Shabbat, may you be strengthened by the memories of your ancestors, and may you continue to feel their love.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
