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From Our Home to Yours:
L’Shana Tovah – 5781 

Welcome to our unique High Holy Days! We have a lot to offer as we create a meaningful, joyful, spiritual,  High Holy Day experience this year.

Join Mishkan Tefila and our High Holy Day Musical team, from around the world,  as we journey as a community, in prayer, and in song,

to celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

At Mishkan Tefila we are socially distant, yet spiritually together.

Keep reading....there is a lot you will want to register for!

Gift Bag and Machzorim Distribution
In preparation for our days of reflection and renewal, we are offering High Holy Day Gift Bags and loaning Machzorim to be used during our virtual services.
Please register here to pick-up your gift bag and Machzorim on Sunday, September 13, 1.00 – 3.00 pm in Brookline or 4.00 – 6.00 pm in Newton.

Purchasing Virtual Seats
We welcome all guests, family members and newcomers. Please consider purchasing virtual seats in order to make it technologically possible to provide dynamic, spiritual, and music-filled High Holy Day experiences. CMT community members are encouraged to support High Holy Days by making a donation, if possible.
Click here to purchase your virtual "seats".

Join Rabbi Marcia Plumb and our wonderful musical team!

Please register for all online services by clicking here.

ROSH HASHANAH: TIKVAH: NEW HOPE, NEW START

Erev Rosh Hashanah
Erev Rosh Hashanah Virtual Seder September 18,  6.00 pm - 6.45 pm

Join Rabbi Marcia Plumb as we begin the High Holy Day season with the Sephardic tradition of a fun, food-filled, mini Rosh Hashanah focused Seder. Try it, you’ll like it! Click here for more information and to register.
Click here to join the virtual seder.

Rosh Hashanah Day 1  Morning Service
September 19,  9.30 am - 12.00 pm
Join us for a unique, engaging Rosh Hashanah morning service, filled with spirited music and meaningful, joyful prayer. During the service, you can pray, journal, share hopes, go to the Schmooze Room, take a spiritual break, smell flowers and more.

9.30      Shacharit: Awake to a Fresh Start and Renewal
10.00    Celebration of New Hope with Torah Service, led by Rabbi Plumb and
             Adirchai Haberman Browns
10.30    Quiet Personal ‘Beauty Break’ to see the majesty in the world; smell your
             flowers and “walk” outside
10.40    Musaf focusing on Hakarat Hatov/Gratitude and Healing – Special Blessings
             for Health Care and Front Line Workers in our congregation and beyond;
             Prayers for Healing in these challenging times
11.05    Shofar Service: Let’s make some noise! (without the Shofar!)
             Celebrate our Resilience
11.30    Sermon by Rabbi Marcia Plumb
12.00    Joyful Conclusion. Enjoy apples and honey and bless the start of a new year.

Rosh Hashanah  Day 2
September 20,  9.30 am - 11.30 am     
9.30     Join Rabbi Dr. Michael Shire as we delve into the Akedah and all its complexities

Click here to join the Zoom with Rabbi Dr. MIchael Shire. 
10.30   Deep Dive into Avinu Malkeinu: A Spiritual and Musical Reflection with Rabbi
            Marcia Plumb (How many renditions of Avinu Malkeinu are there?)
Click here to join the Zoom with Rabbi Marcia Plumb.

Tashlich & Shofar Service - Weather Permitting led by Rabbi Marcia Plumb September 20, 2.00 pm, 3.30 pm and 5.00 pm (Family Service)
Join us for a small (30 people max) in-person, socially distant, gathering to hear Fred Gordon blow the Shofar as we come together for a Shofar and Tashlich service. Choose a time to join us. 
These small gatherings will be following Massachusetts strict guidelines for safety.

5:00    Family Tashlich & Shofar Service with Hands on Learning Project, led by
           Ellen Allard and Rabbi Marcia Plumb with Shofar blowing by Fred Gordon

Click here for more information and to register. Pre-registration is required.

We will gather at City Hall Pond in Newton, 1000 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton Centre.

Please note: the 3.30 pm Tashlich & Shofar Service will be livestreamed - the link will be posted on our webpage in advance.

Click here  for a guided meditation for a personal Tashlich.

YOM KIPPUR: WHERE HAVE YOU COME FROM, WHO ARE YOU BECOMING, AND WHO WALKS WITH YOU? 

Genesis 16:8

Kol Nidre Service
September 27, 6.00 pm
Candle lighting at 6.14 pm

Yom Kippur Morning Service: We Are in This Together
September 28, 9.30 am - 12.00 pm
Join us on this day-long journey into our souls, as we hold each other in our vulnerability.

 9.30      Shacharit: I am Here with my Hopes and Regrets
10.00    Torah Service & Reflections from congregants
10.30    Vidui, Confessions of our Times:  Who am I Becoming?
11.15    Sermon by Rabbi Marcia Plumb
12.00    Conclusion of Morning Yom Kippur Service

Yom Kippur Afternoon
September 28, 2.30 pm - 3.15 pm
Jonah: An interactive discussion from a Mussar perspective
Personal Reflection Walk: Click here for an individual guided meditative walk to be done whenever you choose.

Yizkor:  Who Walks with Me?
September 28, 4.00 - 5.00 pm
Join us as we honor the memories of our individual and community loved ones.

Neilah
September 28, 5.30 pm
Join us to light our havdalah candles and smell our spices as we journey into the new year of 5781 with our Mishkan Tefila family.

Thank you to Larry and Ben Chafetz for making the havdalah spice bags.  
Thank you to a generous donor who is supporting these services.  
Thank you to the Sisterhood for sponsoring our High Holy Day gift bags.
Thank you to the Membership Committee for coordinating and distributing gift bags and Machzorim.
Thank you to the High Holy Day Task Force for all their hard work and dedication.