Posted on 09/22/2015 10:08:38 AM PDT by EveningStar
Edited on 09/22/2015 10:36:21 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
As you know, Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, begins today at sundown and ends tomorrow at sundown. The evening service begins with the Kol Nidre. It has a haunting melody. Here it is, sung by Johnny Mathis. This is the translation from Aramaic:
All vows, obligations, oaths, and anathemas, whether called ‘konam,’ ‘konas,’ or by any other name, which we may vow, or swear, or pledge, or whereby we may be bound, from this Day of Atonement until the next (whose happy coming we await), we do repent. May they be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, and void, and made of no effect; they shall not bind us nor have power over us. The vows shall not be reckoned vows; the obligations shall not be obligatory; nor the oaths be oaths.Kol Nidre is also part of the basis of a composition by Max Bruch, which can be found on YouTube in various performances and arrangements.
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I’ve been told Yom Kippur starts an hour before sundown and lasts 25 hours approximately. A day and an hour in duration. Is that your understanding?
No! This melody is shown against a background of war and dead children. Listen to it somewhere else.
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Yes, from sunset today until full dark tomorrow.
“All vows, obligations, oaths, and anathemas, whether called ‘konam,’ ‘konas,’ or by any other name, which we may vow, or swear, or pledge, or whereby we may be bound, from this Day of Atonement until the next (whose happy coming we await), we do repent. May they be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, and void, and made of no effect; they shall not bind us nor have power over us. The vows shall not be reckoned vows; the obligations shall not be obligatory; nor the oaths be oaths.”
I am going to send this to US Bank and tell them to send me my mortgage to burn.
Ah, so the extra hour is tacked onto the END of Yom Kippur.
Velly intellesting.
My fault. I listened only to the beginning. I didn’t watch the whole thing. Apologies to all! :(
Only vow’s made to G-d can be forgiven by G-d via Kol Nidre. Only other people can forgive vows made to them. Your statement echoes a deliberate campaign of disinformation furing the middle ages regarding the Kol Nidre.
Hope all have an easy fast.
Apologies to all I offended or transcribed against.
Sorry...nice try....only applicable to oaths you make to G-d
not oaths or promises made to others
Thank you for saying this.
Thank you for being overly-sensitive, you mean?
Thanks for calling my attention to that video. The moderator has kindly replaced that video with a better one.
Its a legal formula - a Jew asks G-d to release him from any unfilled vow made before Him in the course of the preceding year. A human being is imperfect and there is no man that does not sin.
In effect, the Heavenly court is asked to pardon, to forgive and atone so a person can get a fresh start in life. We humans have similar procedures for earthly affairs that we have not handled well.
That said, the vow only applies to obligations made before G-d. It does not apply to obligations between man and man. The latter remain in full effect because no civilized society can continue without them.
Yom Kippur is significant because its a day devoted to the soul rather than the body and one in which one relinquishes one’s physical desires to draw closer to G-d. The need for a spiritual relationship, to seek the love of G-d is not the need of G-d; its the need of man and we do not do well without the reminder that the soul is what truly sets apart the body of man from the lesser creatures.
And all of us can get written into the Book Of Life and find ourselves filled with the strength to serve G-d and to bring blessings to others, to our loved ones and in our own lives. Asking G-d for forgiveness, for His mercy allows us to exceed the sum of our weaknesses and failings, to become the servants of Heaven He intended us to be.
I should have put a smiley face after the post. I was attempting to be funny. I was NOT trying to ridicule the tradition.
My Bad.
REPHRASING FOR CLARIFICATION OF MY QUESTION...
Is that the case for the seventh Yom Kippur of the seventh set of years?
Apology accepted. (I’m not Darth Vader, you collar will not be tightening around your neck)
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