Posted on 09/18/2018 11:55:04 AM PDT by EveningStar
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. Listen.
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 the basis of a composition by Max Bruch, which can be found on YouTube in various performances and arrangements.
G’mar chatimah tovah.
Thank you. Wishing all of you an easy fast and a meaningful Yom Kippur. I know mine will be. Going to Dennis Prager’s services and they always are.
Wishing you blessings and a meaningful day on this Yom Kippur.
I am trying to contemplate those deeds of the year I'm less than proud of, for which I sincerely repent. I am trying to get my lawyer legs under me, to plead before the Holy One, Blessed Be He, for another year of life. It is scary, because you never know what He intends for you.
Going to the synagogue for Yom Kippur is like entering a hearing. The best you can do is to plead your case sincerely, and hope for a good verdict. The service is solemn and majestic, and very long.
I hope to be able to finish the main day service in the synagogue before I feel the need to go home, as I am diabetic and fasting is hard for me. I fast because I can just, just pull it off, and my doctor told me I can.
I wish for everyone to be written for a good year, a year of prosperity, of health, of peace and happiness!
Thank you for the ping, mate.
May you enjoy peace, and long life.
Wishing you an easier fast than normal, E. Good description of the YK services. Anything more solemn doesn’t exist (outside of funerals).
Very nice. I still have a few more apologies to make. Still got 3 hrs.
Reflection. I am reminded of the chief baker and chief butler.
"I remember my faults to this day."
Two years earlier, they were both summed up. It was the man pouring the wine who lived to tell the tale.
The Similarity Between Purim and Yom Kippur
Gmar chatimah tovah. (And an easy fast)
Kol Nidre
I have never heard that term and I considered myself fluent in Jewish customs and holy days
It’s Aramaiclike most written Jewish accounts are
Old Hebrew was basically runes and not a phonetic alphabet except purely consonants according to some
Anyhow
Happy Yom Kippur
Most ancient Jewish accounts...
Pardon me
And it’s Blessed Yom Kippur
Not like Happy Hannukah
Foot in goyim mouth disease ...you have to work at it to be as good as I am at it
That’s a beautiful prayer!
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