Passover 2023
Pesach Services will be on Zoom only.
9:30 AM on: Thursday & Friday, April 6 & 7 Wednesday & Thursday, April 12 & 13 Click here to attend services. Yizkor is recited on April 13.
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PASSOVER LETTER FROM TBB PRESIDENT, LIZ PERLMAN
Dear TBB members and friends -
This year, the plan I’m making to gather with family and friends for an in-person seder has a welcome feeling of return to some sense of normalcy. I can consider “who can make it here on a Wednesday night?” and “who makes the best soup and most edible matzo balls?” not just “should folks test before coming?”
I have the same sense that we are finally coming back to ourselves at TBB, to that same sense of both normalcy (Purim in person, so many children AND adults in costume! Kabbalat Shabbat potlucks with kids running up and down all the stairs!), and to new beginnings.
We are so grateful to those of you who have generously contributed through your dues commitments this year, and to all who responded to our 2022 year-end appeal. In this case, I sincerely wish I could say “Dayenu!”- but our synagogue relies on additional continued contributions throughout the year to help balance our budget and sustain our fiscal health, and we are still below our projected budget for contributions to our operating fund for this fiscal year (which ends June 30).
Our Board of Directors will be holding our annual phone-a-thon on April 23. This year, as a measure of their commitment, the group has committed to matching at least the first $3,600. Please consider contributing to this Passover appeal and help us make that match! And a bonus prize: we will remove you from the call list if you donate before the phone-a-thon (unless you’d like a cheery thank you call!)
Wishing all of you a meaningful and liberating Pesach,
Liz
TBB President
Please click the button below to donate online through Paypal's secure website, or mail your check to Temple B'nai Brith, 201 Central St. Somerville, MA 02145.
Dear TBB members and friends -
This year, the plan I’m making to gather with family and friends for an in-person seder has a welcome feeling of return to some sense of normalcy. I can consider “who can make it here on a Wednesday night?” and “who makes the best soup and most edible matzo balls?” not just “should folks test before coming?”
I have the same sense that we are finally coming back to ourselves at TBB, to that same sense of both normalcy (Purim in person, so many children AND adults in costume! Kabbalat Shabbat potlucks with kids running up and down all the stairs!), and to new beginnings.
- If we had only done Zoom Shabbat services during the pandemic, but not continued to use Zoom for full hybrid services (rather than just livestreaming), Dayenu!
- If we had only done one outdoor family Shabbat service and one PJ havdalah, but not turned it into a full series of family services and programs, Dayenu!
- If we had only done one outdoor Shavuot ice cream social, but not held a whole series of events in our fantastic backyard tent last summer, Dayenu!
- If our members interested in combatting climate change had only had a seminar about recycling, and not become an ongoing source of programming and climate action, Dayenu!
- If our Social Action Committee had only encouraged writing postcards for one election and not transformed that energy into an ongoing voter rights campaign, Dayenu!
We are so grateful to those of you who have generously contributed through your dues commitments this year, and to all who responded to our 2022 year-end appeal. In this case, I sincerely wish I could say “Dayenu!”- but our synagogue relies on additional continued contributions throughout the year to help balance our budget and sustain our fiscal health, and we are still below our projected budget for contributions to our operating fund for this fiscal year (which ends June 30).
Our Board of Directors will be holding our annual phone-a-thon on April 23. This year, as a measure of their commitment, the group has committed to matching at least the first $3,600. Please consider contributing to this Passover appeal and help us make that match! And a bonus prize: we will remove you from the call list if you donate before the phone-a-thon (unless you’d like a cheery thank you call!)
Wishing all of you a meaningful and liberating Pesach,
Liz
TBB President
Please click the button below to donate online through Paypal's secure website, or mail your check to Temple B'nai Brith, 201 Central St. Somerville, MA 02145.