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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Traditional Kol Nidre Found
Many Critics Among the Rabbis

Friday, October 1, 1941

The Musician and the Statesman

Atheists' Time
on Air Opposed

WASHINGTON (WNS)--There
Is no validity to
the demand
that atheists must receive time
on the radio equal to that gj v
,
en to religious groups, declared
the Synagogue Council of Amer-
lea in a statement to a special
House Committee regarding a p e.,
tition asking that atheists be
given radio time to present their
vie
views.

By RABBI A. SILVERSTONE

"KOL NIDRE" means "all vows" and is the name of
a legal
formula by which a person is released from vows. A vow
is a promise to do or refrain from doing a certain act.
There are promises which are
generally not considered bind- ing, Mrs. G. said she would
ing. Such, for instance, are rash think it over and let the presi-
promises made in a state of dent know her decision. How-
emotional tension or mental ever, Mrs. G. forgot and the
weakness, or promises whose president assumed that her si-
"It must be kept in
dulfitIlment is impossible, so- lence meant assent.
mind that
At the banquet she called up-
cially undesirable or illegal.
this great nation of ours
was
on
Mrs.
G.,
who,
unprepared
(a) Mr. A. was dangerously
formed 'under God,'" says the
sta,tw
eme ent.
th
ill, His wife, a pious woman, and inexperienced, refused in
fervently prayed for his recov- furious whispers to 'make the
us have a distinut
ery and vowed that if God presentation. Another member
firmation in our Declaration
saved
the
day
with
an
im-
of
helped her she should buy a
Independence that this is
a
Sefer Torah for the Synagogue. promptu speech. But the result
country with religion as one of
Mr. A. recovered. But he was was that Mrs. G., the president
its fundamental bases. Separa-
a poor man and indebted to the and the "honored" sister, all in-
Izler Solomon, left, American guest conductor of the Palestine
.tion between church and state
doctors; he could not possibly sulted and embarrassed, vowed
Philharmonic Orchestra, chats with Moshe Shertok, Israeli
has at no time meant that we
in the presence of friends that
buy a Sefer Torah.
foreign minister. Solomon has since returned to the U.S.
wish to see our institutions sub-
they
would
resign,
would
never
(b) The president of a La-
verted by atheism."
dies' Aid Society asked Mrs. G. take office, would have nothing and stricken with an exaggerated self to his God, to his conscience,
further to do, etc.
sense
of
honor,
and
so
feel
that
to his ideal of the good life.
to present a gift to an honored
they have to abide by their
He finds, however, that in the
sister, with an appropriate talk.
Transjordan is three times as
ONLY HUMAN
"word" and refrain from ac- course of the year he has com-
at the annual banquet. Hesitat-
big as Palestine, but is chiefly
THE EXAMPLES cited above tivity in the society. Such people mitted many small and Unspec-
present cases in which the ful- ought to guard their tongues, tacular wrongs that he can desert and has only 340,000 in-
fillment of the vow is impos- but they are only human—and hardly remember and account habitants, mostly Arab nomads.
sible or socially undesirable. You don't.
for; yet they are indicative of
Greetings
The Jews of antiquity, emo- his moral weakness and frailty.
may dig up from your own ex-
perience illustrations of vows by tional and pious, hasty but hon-
To relieve the community from
which you gave your word to orable, sought relief from the this oppressive feeling of guilt,
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
avenge yourself, or to get even, psychological and social difficul- a blanket formula was devised
ties arising from rash vows, in for the annulment of all forgot-
and the like.
The lady in the first illustra- a legal, formal and ceremonial- ten vows.
tion may consider herself a ized annulment.
The formula, recited by the
ThOy _ would present the case Cantor as the head of the jury of
grave sinner all her life, and
may be 'possessed by fear of before an ordained Rabhi or an three, before the open Ark,
expert in the laws of vows, reads:
God's punishment.
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The women of the Ladies' Aid promises and oaths, or a jury of
"All vows, bonds .. . where-
Society may be social-minded three laymen.
with we have vowed . . . and
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The judge or the jury would bound ourselves to take effect
and nevertheless humanly vain
investigate the circumstances from the last Day of Atonement
NO. 9659
under which the vow was made,
(Continued on page 47)
the social effects of its fulfill-
ment, and its legality. Upon
their findings they would de-
clare the vow either binding or
null and void.
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GIVES ACCOUNTING
THE ANNULMENT gave re-
lief to the person who remem-
bered his vow and its circum-
stances. But in our daily busi-
ness and social pursuits we fre-
quently, in a state of tension,
make mental or verbal promises
one day only to forget them the
next day.
On the eve of Yom Kippur
the Jew probes into his life of
the past year. Ile wants to right
his wrongs and blot out his sins.
With prayer shawl over his
head he looks within his own
heart, giving an account of him-

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