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yidsrus carls & kol nidrei Carls you are so ignorant and simply posted for the sake of flaming.

Kol Nidrei:

Kol Nidrei: Written in Aramaic, this prayer makes null and void all vows and promises Jews make to G-d and may not keep in the coming year.

It is the first prayer of Yom Kippur and should be recited before sunset. (Kol Nidrei does not effect promises made to other people.)

Meanings of Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), the holiest and most solemn day in the Jewish calendar, is a 25-hour fast devoted to prayer and penitence. This is in accordance with the tradition that a person's destiny for the coming year is decreed on Rosh ha-Shanah (first and second days of Tishri) and sealed ten days later on Yom Kippur (tenth day of Tishri). Thus, Yom Kippur closes the period of penitence and self-examination known as Aseret Yemei Teshuva (the Ten Days of Repentance). The prayers of the day stress confession of sins and supplications for forgiveness, and are couched in the plural, on behalf of the "entire congregation of Israel."The rabbis teach, however, that the day can only serve to atone for transgressions against God; sins committed against individuals require their forgiveness prior to the day.

The service for the eve of Yom Kippur is often called (Kol Nidrei), meaning All vows. This name is taken from the opening words of a passage which is sung to a moving melody at the start of the service. The service begins with the Ark being opened and the scrolls are taken out to mark the solemnity of the occasion and then two legal declarations are made. The first is to declare that it is permitted for us to pray together with sinners. This passage was introduced by Meir of Rothenburg in the 13th century and is commonly supposed to have been inserted to permit those Jews who had been forcibly converted to Christianity to return to the community on Yom Kippur. However it may have been introduced because such people were shunned following the interpretation of the verse Depart from the tents of these wicked men, touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away in all their sins.23. As everyone is about to admit to a catalogue of sins, it might have been thought necessary to public permit the people to worship together. A third possible reason is a Talmudic saying: R. Hana b. Bizna in the name of R. Hisda the pious: A fast in which none of the sinners of Israel participate is no fast;24.

The second legal declaration is the Kol Nidre itself. The oldest form of this declaration said roughly: May all the vows, etc. which we have made from the last Yom Kippur to this Yom Kippur which we have not fulfilled be regarded as null and void. From Biblical times onward vows were regarded as sacred and not fulfilling them was serious sin, because one had been dishonest to God. Before our prayers of repentance can be taken as sincere it is necessary to clear ourselves of guilt for promises made which were knowingly or unknowingly left unfulfilled. The words of the Kol Nidre is sung or said three times. This is because when one renounced vows one had to do so three times. In the 12th century, Rabenu Tam, the grandson of Rashi, said that vows could not be annulled retrospectively, and so he changed the text to refer to vows to be made in the coming year. This has led some anti-Semites to say that the word of a Jew could not be relied upon. Of course, this declaration is only concerned with vows between man and God, between man and man the Day of Atonement does not pardon, without settling the matter with him first.27.

Erstwhile students of the Talmud know this.

Carls, your article was in poor taste, patently false and misleading.

You know, a stint in our bible classes just might open your eyes and hopefully your dreadful posts may stop.