38 Friday, September 16, 1983

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

The Power of Kol Nidrei Melody

By SAMUEL ROSENBAUM

reach and to move even the
most disinterested
peripheral Jew.
If one needed additional
testimony that words alone,
no matter how elegant,_ are
not enough for a Jew at

The melody of Kol Nidrei
became, over the ages, the
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prayer, he need only step
into a synagogue on Kol
Nidrei eve, the holiest night
of the year.
Empty and deserted
much of the rest of the year,
it is now packed to overflow-
ing. Impending judgment
hangs suspended, mist-like,
in the air. All wait for Kol
Nidrei. And then the Ark is
opened, the holy Scrolls
brought forth and the haz-
zan begins to chant Kol
Nidrei.
The notes shine like stars.
In them you hear the
heartbreak and the misery
of the Jewish people.
For an instant, the man
in front of you is your
grandfather, wrapped in
his white kittle, prayer-
book moist with his tears.
He, too, is swaying. He to
your tempo and you to
his.
You blink and it is over.
You are back in the present.
Unconsciously you touch
the pages of your own
prayerbook and they, too,
are moist. With those tears?
You glance at the words of
Kol Nidrei, enigmas in their
Aramaic. So you look to the
facing page, to the transla-
tion, and you are shocked.
There is no poetry, no
prayer, no majesty. Merely
a dry-as-dust ancient for-
mula; a blanket, legalistic
release from unfulfilled
promises.
And then you understand
the power of a song.

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Many Israelis, including
many who do not regard
themselves as superstiti-
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of the Jewish New Year
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Astrologists and fortune
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ture, "some of them in a
state of near-panic," accord-
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year — 5744 — which, in
Hebrew, is represented by
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als. There is no letter or
group of letters for the
thousands. But the last
three figures are written in
Hebrew as Taf, Shin, Mem,
Daled — which forms the
word for "annihilation."
So widespread is the
unease that the radio has
started to spell out the
individual letters rather
than the word they form,
and the army and the
Ministry of Education
have issued calendars
with the letters re-
arranged to avoid the
fear-instilling word.
Specialists and
enthusiastic amateurs in
"gematriya" — the art of
science of the interpretation
of numbers — have been
quoted in radio programs of-
fering differing interpreta-
tions, based on the Scrip-
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there may, indeed, be an notorious book, "1984,"
annihilation this year — starts in three months time.
but of non-Jewish forces Some gematriya experts
seeking to harm or damage claim that Orwell consulted
Israel.
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seem to agree that great
changes in the world situa- point out that Orwell wrote
tion will occur between now his book in 1948 and merely
and the end of the century, transposed the last two fig-
with many forecasting the ures — as the army and the
end of the Communist state Education Ministry have
in the Soviet Union within done with the fear-instilling
letters of the Jewish New
the next 10 years.
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