America leafish Periodical eater CLIFTON ATINU1 - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 7i1EDurttoff,kwtsitMRONICL£ ........ ..1") .......m.... PAGE FIFTEEN 4 . 11(SSMISIIMIle•S ■ ilind=MMMAINIMIS the fifteenth century. The 1 THE TRUE MEANING OF KOL NIDRE ! , in "Not Nitre" ceremony is men- I i ,rit d not only by the authors of Concerning the Resolution Passed by the Reform Rabbis to Abolish , "TosetTos," who lived in the elev. ...nth century, but also by the Kol Nidre. Tanaim of the first century. In Ow "Saar," chapter "Pinchas," By RABBI JOSEPH THUMIN Dace 205, in a discussion of the Of Congregation Beth Abraham. I svii•it and grandeur of Yon) Kip- The Kol Nidre is undoubtedly many centuries and generations. par, we find, "Thus they .(; .. the most significant of divinely in- and they have substituted for it a toted the custom of reciting the spired prayers on the Day of made-to-order hymn which suited "Kol Nitire." There is an objection which is :, 4 ,S Atonement. The .Sages have given, them better. There is as much •',. first place to prayer and it vi- good judgment involved here as more than one merely chronologi- It is well known to those ;:t: brutes through every Jewish soul there would be to propOSe that the cal. when accompanied by its exquis- Palestinian Jews who are strug- who are acquainted with the ite melody and imbues every de- Kling for their privileges at the muchk code that the privilege with the atmosphere of Wailing Wall should abandon this granted by the Torah to abolish wall and weep at a new structu••' oaths and vows does not apply to 4 .4 4' Yom Kippur. certain kinds of oaths which either It seem,. strange at first glimpse built by a modern architect. S441111 4 scholars, in an attempt 1,, cannot Ire dissolved or need not •-', to find that the words of the "Kol Nidre" c o ntain no uplifting reconcile the dry, sin poetical "Kol be dissolved. Oaths made to Oh- :74+ thought to inspire the soul an 410 Nidre" formula with the serious- ers cannot be dissolved while oaths so many others. In fact, it seems mess of the day and the traditional forced upon one and which are in ":7 to have no connection with the es- beautiful melody that adheres to contradiction to laws of the Torah :fr sandal spirit of this day. It reads: it, propose a unique theory as to are null and void of themselves The and need not be dissolved, since "All vows, oaths, obligations the origin of this prayer. wherewith we have vowed, sworn "Kol Nidre," they claim, origin- the Jews are bound by their oath ; .4+ and bound ourselves we repent. ated during the time of the Span- ;it Mount Sinai to obey all the 'a+ They shall be dissolved and un- ish Inquisition. At that time the laws of the Torah In whole people: '; ;I: nulled." This legal formula seems Maranos, or secret Jews, practised may make a vow for their descend-I better tilted to some obscure place Judaism in the face of persecutiol, : ants), 11114J later vow to break such than to the foremost position of all and the rabbis of the time pre- law; as automatically null and nor does the melody harmonize pared this formula to absolve them . void. The true meaning of the "Rol ;Si+, with the words. in a religiously legal manner from For this reason our Reform their oath to deny the Jewish re- Nidre" is based upon the Talmudic brethren have presumed to abolish ligion and not to practice its laws.' explanation, "Nidah," page 30, from the Vow Kippur services the 'Ibis ingenious theory is utterly that when man is born, before he is "Kol Nidre," a prayer which has false and has no factual basis., appears in the world, his soul is A inspired the Jewish heart these I The Spanish Inquisition took place taught the rites and wisdom of the - Torah and is asked to render an i' to obserfe them. The man, is hen add r esse d as fo ll ow s:' • "You shall kno w th at your G od is , `4444 pure ru nt his servants are pure. :(:,. Rosh Hashonah Greetings and — Sincere Good Wishes to the Entire Jewish Community •■ .,7 A voted .kw Blumberg Bros. INSURANCE AGENCY 2332-40 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG. 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Before one can pray , to God to forgive him his sins he must apply the religious-legal for-i n mula in order to absolve himself from his own oath which he took ' upon himself at birth which is in- .• I ma Noire.", in the "Kol eluded Although the "Kol Nidre" is a MN legal formula for the absolving of oaths, it is at the same time snore 0).k.,, , inspiring than any other prayer. ON -,- ,• ; .. . It makes a man realize the ugliness a ∎ •••• of his sins by bringing before his I. eyes the vision of the sanctuary he has defiled and thereby makes him repent in a spirit of sincere re- 1.1 hentance. It can now be seen how no other prayer can be at UM :::. once so inspiring and impressive .., and how no other prayer so well deserves the atominant place or is OM so well suited for the glorious' "Kol Nidre" melody. 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