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Avi Weiss

Rabbi Avi Weiss is the founding rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale (the Bayit) and founder of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshivat Maharat, originator of Open Orthodoxy.

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Sep 16, 2026

Jewish Insights with Justin Pines

Jewish Insights with Justin Pines

Returning to Yourself: Rabbi Avi Weiss on Yom Kippur

Sep 16 · 1h 6m

Justin PinesHOST

23:18

When I say Kol Nidre, what comes up for you? What are the things that we should be thinking about when we think about Kol Nidre?

23:23

Ko Nidre is a prayer in which we're talking about the importance of words.

23:30

Ko Nidre is that there is a court in effect that has been convened and if I have made a vow and the vow has to be annulled, so the vow Ko Nidre, it's being nullified.

23:46

On one level it speaks about the importance of words.

23:51

It's a very big message.

23:53

When people use words like genocide or global intifada, again, I don't view that as politics.

24:00

I view that as a threat against the Jewish people, the Jewish land against Israel.

29 MINS LATER

Justin PinesHOST

52:37

Tell me a little bit about why are we doing, why are we not eating, and why are we not wearing leather shoes? Like, what's the goal of these five afflictions?