KOL NIDRE
Thoughts on Kol Nidre Prayer
In just a couple of days’ time, we will be gathering for the holiest services of the Jewish year. Yom Kippur is a solemn day … a day of fasting, prayer, reflection, and redemption. As a community, we spend many hours together. At the other end of the day, we emerge refreshed and renewed.
The Yom Kippur services begin with a prayer called Kol Nidre . In this prayer, recited three times by the service leader, we renounce all vows and promises that we made over the past year – as if to begin the new year fresh – with a clean slate.
Why has the Kol Nidre prayer been so important to the Jewish people? Please take a few moments to read the brief pieces below. They are written by “voices” of Jewish life (Chabad, British Reform, and Conservative) – and offer mature perspectives on the anchor prayer of Yom Kippur.
Have an easy fast. May we all be inscribed in the Book of Life!
Ben Zion (Benzy) Kogen,
Spiritual Leader
In just a couple of days’ time, we will be gathering for the holiest services of the Jewish year. Yom Kippur is a solemn day … a day of fasting, prayer, reflection, and redemption. As a community, we spend many hours together. At the other end of the day, we emerge refreshed and renewed.
The Yom Kippur services begin with a prayer called Kol Nidre . In this prayer, recited three times by the service leader, we renounce all vows and promises that we made over the past year – as if to begin the new year fresh – with a clean slate.
Why has the Kol Nidre prayer been so important to the Jewish people? Please take a few moments to read the brief pieces below. They are written by “voices” of Jewish life (Chabad, British Reform, and Conservative) – and offer mature perspectives on the anchor prayer of Yom Kippur.
Have an easy fast. May we all be inscribed in the Book of Life!
Ben Zion (Benzy) Kogen,
Spiritual Leader
