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
Daily Mishna Learning with Rabbi David Starr Monday - Friday, 12:00PM
When COVID began Rabbi David Starr started an online daily Mishna learning with KI. This has been a great way to connect and learn together.
We invite everyone in our community for daily Mishna learning and open dialogue on Zoom. The sessions meet at 12:00PM, for 15 – 20 minutes Monday through Friday.
Participant led Mincha will follow each learning at 12:20PM.
Community Rally For Israel *NEW DATE* Sunday, November 5th, 12:00 - 3:00PM
Join us for a powerful event as we gather as a community to take pride in Jewish life and show our support for Israel!
The community rally for Israel will take place at 9 Babcock Street in Brookline on Sunday Nov. 5.
12:00PM: Event opens 12:30PM - 1PM: Opening remarks & solidarity walk for Israel 1PM - 3PM: Display of Jewish Life & Israeli Pride!
Thanks to the Brookline PD who has graciously agreed to close a portion of Babcock Street and staff this event.
In partnership with: The RJCF, IAC, StandWithUs, AJC, CAMERA, Friends of the IDF (FIDF), Magen David Adom, the Israeli Consulate of New England, the Jewish National Fund, Christian and Jews United for Israel, Temple Emanuel (Newton), Temple Beth Shalom (Needham), Temple Israel of Natick, Congregation Kehillath Israel (Brookline), the Jewish Law Students Association at Suffolk Law, Shaloh House, and Solomon Schechter Day School.
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Shloshim Stephen Burg
Saturday Julius Levine Maye Cohen Ronald Blumer Hazel Schwartz William Goldberg Bertha Milder Myron Cohen
Sunday Sadye K. Mezer
Monday Lillian Bardfield
Tuesday Doris Hyman Abraham Katz
Wednesday Saul A. Sherman Martin Silver Sarah R. Einstein Stanley Fischer Irene Brown
Thursday
Friday Doris Cohen
A Word of Torah from Rabbi Starr
Dear Friends,
Thank you for welcoming me to the CMT community. As a Bostonian and as a historian (as well as a rabbi) I know the history and importance of this community to the Jews of Boston and beyond.
I look forward to getting to know each of you personally. A wise rabbi once said, it’s important to be a rabbi who loves Jews not just Judaism. I take that advice seriously. Every person matters, you need to feel that your community cares about you, and that you have something to contribute to this community. It’s my job to care about each person in this community as well as the community itself, and it’s a privilege for me to have that responsibility. Thank you in advance for allowing me to do that sacred work.
A word of Torah.
This week we read perhaps the most dramatic and famous story in the Torah, the Binding of Isaac. Commentators ask all the right questions: What does this test mean? What does the story tells us about God and Abraham (and more subtlety about Sarah and Isaac)? And how do we think about the spiritual, ethical meaning of human sacrifice, especially of a beloved child?
Come to shul tomorrow to hear more about this.
For now, just consider this: what does sacrifice mean? Other than your family for what or whom do you sacrifice? To be continued…
