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What Kol Nidre Says In English

Following is the English translation of Kol Nidre, from Mahzor for Rosh
HaShana and Yom Kippur, edited by Rabbi Jules Harlow, Rabbinical
Assembly in New York, 1972.

All personal vows we are likely to make, all personal oaths and pledges we
are likely to take between this Yom Kippur and the next Yom Kippur, we pub-
licly renounce. Let them all be relinquished and abandoned, null and void, nei-
ther firm nor established. Let our
personal vows, pledges and oaths
be considered neither vows nor
pledges nor oaths.
(Said three times) May all the
In many congregations, a special reading is
people of Israel be forgiven,
included just before recitation of Kol Nidre.
including all the strangers who
It is a request of God and the community
live in their midst for all the peo-
for "consent to pray with transgressors," says
ple are in fault.
Rabbi Avraham Cohen, director of special
0 pardon the iniquities of
programs for Yeshiva Beth Yehudah in
this people, according to Thy
Southfield.
abundant kindness, even as
Rabbi Cohen says the addition to the
Thou hast forgiven this people
service originated during the time of the
ever since they left Egypt.
Sephardic Spanish conversos, sometimes
(Said three times) The Lord
called by the contemptuous name marranos.
said: "I pardon them as you have
Conversos were Jews forced by the threat of
asked."
death to convert to Christianity some 500
Blessed art thou, Lord our
years ago, yet many of them secretly fol-
God, King of the universe, who
lowed Jewish laws. The additional reading
hast granted us life and suste-
was created so they could attend Kol Nidre
nance and permitted us to reach
and pray with others, and has been retained
this season.
through modern times, the rabbi says.

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