Friday, October 6, 21 Tishrei 6:00PM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Ellen Allard for a HYBRIDHoshana Rabbah Shabbat Evening Service.
Saturday October 7, 22 Tishrei 9:30AM Please join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Cantor Ellen Band for a HYBRIDShmini Atzeret Shabbat Morning Services with Yizkor.
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, 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
High Holy Days 5784/2023 Feedback Survey
Dear Friends,
Your feedback on High Holy Days is invaluable!
Please take a few minutes to fill out this short survey about your experience this year. Whether you attended briefly or attended all the services, please let us know your thoughts.
Please complete the survey by October 10.
Thank you very much, The High Holy Day Task Force and Rabbi Plumb
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Shloshim Gloria Bubly Kenneth Alpert
Saturday Miriam Harel Stanley P. Barron Dorothy Konvisser
Sunday Dr. Kenneth Blotner
Monday Beverly Friedman Boris Wise Paula Grau Frances Stahl
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Thursday
Friday Abraham Cohen Theresa Blumer
A Teaching from Our Rabbi
Dear Friends,
This Shabbat marks endings and beginnings. We are coming to the end of Sukkot. Today is Hoshanah Rabbah, the water festival, tomorrow is Sh’mini Atzeret, and tomorrow night and Sunday is Simchat Torah.
At Simchat Torah, we end Moses’s journey, and we begin again to create a new journey, at Bereshit (Genesis). In my life, and in the life of congregation Mishkan Tefila, we are living out our own Simchat Torah experience. Simchat Torah means the joy of the Torah. We have certainly experienced both Torah and joy during our journey together. We have learned and shared Torah wisdom and the wisdom that comes from living a life well-lived. I hope I have fulfilled one of my goals for CMT- to infuse joy in Judaism wherever possible.
Like at Simchat Torah, we too are marking endings and beginnings. As you know, after 10 years of being with you, 31 October will be my last day as your rabbi. On November 1, our new journeys will begin. How will we mark our ending and beginning again? In several ways…
I invite you to celebrate both the journey of the Israelites and our journey together as we dance with the scrolls and the campus at Simchat Torah, tomorrow night.
Friday night October 13, we will have our own unique CMT style celebration with a Festive Friday musical service and a special dinner.
My last Shabbat with the congregation as your rabbi will be the 29th and 30th of October when services will be in person (and online). I invite you to join me on that Friday night and Saturday morning to mark the end of our special journey together. I will keep you posted if we have Nosh and Drash that morning before the service.
I will also be inviting you to an open house when we can have a better chance to speak one to one.
In the meantime, feel free to reach out at any point in the next few weeks and I look forward to speaking with you. None of us knows what the future will bring but if I know Mishkan, more adventures lie ahead, and the future is bright for all of us.
On this Shabbat of Simchat Torah, may your homes be filled with the awareness that everything has a season, and a purpose under heaven (Kohelet/Ecclesiastes). Endings give us the chance to reflect, make amends, and do teshuvah before the Gates close at Simchat Torah. Beginnings lead us toward new growth. May we have both this Shabbat.
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
