Happy Hanukkah from Congregation Mishkan Tefila! December 22-30
Shabbat Services this Week
Friday, December 20, 22 Kislev 6:00 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Services with Cantor Elana Rozenfeld
Saturday, December 21, 23 Kislev 9:30 AM Shabbat Morning Services with Cantor Ellen Band
Celebrate Hanukkah with CMT at Menorahfest on the 384 Campus Dec. 22, 3:30 PM
3:30-4:30 PM Hanukkah Crafts 4:30-5:00 PM Latkes and Singing with Cantor Aryeh Finkelstein 5:00 PM Lighting of Hanukiyot 5:30 PM Dinner and Concert with Center Makor Please bring your Menorahs (Hanukiyot)! RSVP to Janet Stein Calm at S391@aol.com
We Remember: This week's upcoming Yahrzeit Observances
Saturday Harvey Chet Krentzman
Sunday David Brodsky Leonard Pach Jacob Finkielsztein
Monday Ruth Sheff Rosenberg Audrey Wintman Jack Kochman
Tuesday Joseph Lank Jacob Kaplan Pauline Schorr Joseph Allschwang Joseph Linsey Rose Rosen
Wednesday Matilda Harris Goldberg Roberta Ingall
Thursday Sara Wilson
Friday Bertha Friedberg Roberta Shur
Hanukah Cheat Sheet: How to light the hanukiyah, the blessings, fun videos and Hanukah music links, and Tzedakah Giving opportunities
The Blessings ~ בֵּרַכוֹת לֵחֲנוּכָּה Blessing 1 English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Light of the universe, who has sanctified us with Your commandments, and has commanded us to kindle the lights of Hanukkah.
Blessing 2 English: Blessed are you, Eternal our God, Light of the universe, who wrought miracles for our ancestors in days of old, at this season.
Blessing 3 Shehechiyanu English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Light of the universe, who has kept us alive, and sustained us, and enabled us to reach this moment.
Hanukkah Playlist, New and Old To Fill Your Home with the Music of Hanukkah
HIAS—Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Congregation Mishkan Tefila –Help us continue to thrive Israid—Israeli organization that supports victims of natural disasters and trauma all over the world
Dedications for Each Night of Hanukkah May the ideals we link with our Hanukkah candles help light our way each day of our lives.
1) We light the candle for the first night of Hanukkah as a dedication to kindness, hesed. Let us always be kind to other people and animals by trying to understand their feelings and by helping them. This will help make us and the whole world more compassionate.
2) We light the candle for the second night of Hanukkah as a dedication to fairness, tzedek. Let us always be fair to others by sharing with them and treating them with respect. This will help fill the world with justice.
3) We light the candle for the third night of Hanukkah as a dedication to love, `ahavah. Let us always be thankful for the love of our family and friends. Rooted in their affections, we grow up to help to fill the world with love.
4) We light the candle for the fourth night of Hanukkah as a dedication to each of us being a good, responsible member of the human family, mishpahah. As citizens of our community and world, let us always work to improve our school and our neighborhood, and also contribute to help others in places farther away.
5) We light the candle for the fifth night of Hanukkah as a dedication to freedom, herut. Like other peoples, our ancestors struggled many times for freedom. So let us value the liberties and opportunities such struggles have allowed us to enjoy, and let us work together to help others who are less free. This will help fill the world with liberty.
6) We light the candle for the sixth night of Hanukkah as a dedication to peace, shalom. Hanukkah was first celebrated after a battle as our ancestors began to rebuild after the destruction and suffering and death caused by war. Every day, we can help rebuild the world with peace with our Hanukkah values - by being kind and fair, loving and responsible, and by helping to spread freedom.
7) We light the candle for the seventh night of Hanukkah as a dedication "to life," l'-haiyim! We can help all to enjoy a good life by working together to create a world of compassion and justice, a world of love and mutual responsibility, a world of freedom and peace. As we hope and work for these ideals, we dedicate this Hanukkah candle "to life!"
8) We light the candle for the eighth night of Hanukkah as a dedication to the improvement of the world, tiqqun ha-olam. May our dedication to our Hanukkah goals inspire us and light our way all year round.
Each and every day, may we help to heal the world's suffering and sickness, to repair its brokenness, and to help create what in Yiddish we call a a besere un sheynere velt, "a better and more beautiful world."
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Marcia Plumb
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
