Posted on 10/07/2011 8:11:00 AM PDT by EveningStar
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 and I thought you might like to hear it (guess the singer).
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."
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Is that Neil Diamond?
He did a beautiful version in ‘ The Jazz Singer’.
God’s blessings be upon all Freepers of the Jewish faith, and the world, on this Yom Kippur.
More than ever.
As far as I know, this singer is not a Jew. :)
Same as last year: Johnny Mathis. You can also find it on YouTube along with versions by others including Al Jolson, Neil Diamond, and Perry Como.
That sounds like Johnny Mathis.
Heard Danny Thomas sing it in a movie (yes, he played a Rabbi.)
May you be blessed on this solemn and pivotal day, our redemption draws near on this His day.
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