Kol Nidre

And I think that just as using the language of Hebrew, which we have used since the time of the Torah for thousands of years, just as Hebrew anchors any service anywhere in the world, The same applies to nusach, the traditional framework of the music.

So that's an Ashkenazic Jew who davens in Toledo or in Tucson or in Cape Town or in Jerusalem, when they hear the kol nidre in an Ashkenazic synagogue, and even some Sephardic synagogues use the Ashkenazi kol nidre, it should sound similar.

Now, Kol Nidre is not a typical example of nussach.

Nussach is a scale, a musical framework.

But a Jew from my shul or from your shul should be able to go to an Ashkenazic synagogue anywhere in the world.

Not dead, but dry.

I should use the word dry.

Try reading Kol Nidre without the melody, without the nusach.

Whatever it is, the Mishnagora quotes, it's a good idea to get the Shulot on time.

Did we speak about Kol Nidre? We spoke about it by Atar Stadarm, did we talk about this? No, we haven't talked about it yet.

So there's another reason why we should try to get the shul on time, because we have a minik to say Kol Nidre before Shkia.

Where did that minik come from? So there was a big machlekes and the gaonim, and we showed him why he said Kol Nidre in the first place.

Kol Nidre is one of the strangest things.

I was just talking about it before Yom Kippur.

so I gave a shiur to the women in Shabbat Shuvah, before the Red Lashon, Shabbat Shuvah is Rosh Hashanah, so I talked about the two minhagim that we have, almost like the two bookends of Yom Kippur, Yom Kippur starts with Konidre, and it ends with Kieshafer, and no one has any idea why we do either of those two things.

Make sure to do that.

or you're going to Kol Nidre on Yom Kippur night, so you want to lay at your house and you want to drive to Kol Nidre, that's completely fine, be it to stipulate that you don't want Shabbos to begin with your candlelight.

So now, Shabbos did not begin in any way, and therefore you would have to accept upon yourselves out loud, say the words, I am accepting upon myself Shabbos.

That's the point I want to be very clear about.

His observation brought to mind a storied institution in Jewish law, , the annulment of vows.

For all the seriousness by which Judaism regards vows, oaths, and promises, Jewish law also recognizes as reflected in the spirit of Yom Kippur's Kol Nidre prayer that human beings sometimes make commitments without fully appreciating what the future will bring.

Through a carefully prescribed process, certain vows may be released upon the discovery of circumstances not adequately considered when they are made in service to a greater good.

And what good is greater than the future welfare of the Jewish state? They say you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.

He's davening.

We use this tefillah by Kol Nidre, Leliam Kipper, Tzaddik in Russia.

Why would you get tefillahs over here? Tziv says to Pella, everybody is.

Why after the Kedah is the Abish to say, now I see Yareli Kimato.

great.

I wanted to just, from my point of view, I have a deep respect for the Talmudic scholars who recognized if we are in B'tzelem Elohim, then we have the evil inclination and the good inclination, for one, and that there's a, the biggest prayer that we say each year is Kol Nidre, asking for forgiveness for anything that we might have done wrong to others.

Great.

Great.

For the first time, the congregation has no one to lead the most sacred service of the year.

Jackie's mother comes to the theater and begs him to sing Kol Nidre in his father's place.

His producer warns him that if he misses opening night, he will never work on Broadway again.

Broadway or the Bima? Jackie chooses the synagogue, and as his father lies on his deathbed, he and the audience hear his son's voice singing Kol Nidre.

Think about that.

Hollywood finally found its voice and used it to voice to tell a story about Kol Nidre, literally has Al Jolson sing Kol Nidre on screen.

From the very first talking picture, Jewish life has been part of Hollywood's story.

My guest is working to make sure the next chapter is told with depth, authenticity, and pride.

Reb Zelig on Yom Kippur was like a malach.

And yet he walked into Taravadas an hour before Kol Nidre.

Rabbi Yaakov was already there.

They were already saying tefillah zakah.

We're going to go for Yom Kippur.

We'll go for Kol Nidre.

Okay.

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