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The "Kol Nidre" (aka "Kol Nidrey") is a little known prayer
of the Jews. In Volume VIII of the Jewish Encyclopedia on page 539 found in the Library of Congress, the New York Public
Library and libraries of all leading cities one can find the Kol Nidre (All Vows) prayer. It is the prologue of the
Day of Atonement services in the synagogues. It is recited three times by the standing congregation in concert with
chanting rabbis at the altar. The Day of Atonement religious observances are the highest holy days of the
Jews. What the Kol Nidre does is to dispense with all vows that Jews take for the next year. So, basically
their word is meaningless as they can lie, commit perjury and defraud you and it has no consequence because of this little
luxury that they afford themselves.
The actual prayer reads thus: "All vows, obligations, oaths , anathemas, whether called 'konam', 'konas', or by any other name, which we may vow, swear, or pledge, or whereby we may be bound, from this Day of Atonement unto the next, (whose happy coming we await), we do repent. May they be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, and void and made of no effect; they shall not bind us nor have power over us. The vows shall not be reckoned vows; the obligations shall not be obligatory; nor the oaths be oaths."
In the Talmud, the Book of Nedarim, 23a-23b, the implications, inferences and innuendos of Kol Nidre is given: "And he who desires that none of his vows made during the year shall be valid, let him stand at the beginning of the year and declare 'Every vow which i make in the future, shall be null.' His vows are then invalid providing that he remembers this at the time of the vow."
The greatest study of the "Kol Nidre"was made by the eminent psycho-analyst Professor Theodor Reik, the celebrated pupil of Sigmund Freud. This important study is contained in Professor Reik's "The Ritual, Psycho-Analytical Studies". In the chapter on The Talmud, on page 168, Professor Reik states: "The Text was to the effect that all oaths which believers take between one Day of Atonement and the next Day of Atonement are declared invalid."
The late Israel Shahak, a Jew, who was Professor Emeritus at Hebrew University in Israel, touched on this in his blockbuster work, "Jewish History, Jewish Religion". In that work, on page 33, Shahak wrote: "What is popularly regarded as the most 'holy' and solemn occasion of the Jewish liturgical year, attended even by very many Jews who are otherwise far from religion? It is the Kol Nidrey prayer on the eve of Yom Kippur -- a chanting of a particularly absurd and deceptive dispensation, by which all private vows made to God in the following year are declared in advance to be null and void."
The actual prayer reads thus: "All vows, obligations, oaths , anathemas, whether called 'konam', 'konas', or by any other name, which we may vow, swear, or pledge, or whereby we may be bound, from this Day of Atonement unto the next, (whose happy coming we await), we do repent. May they be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, and void and made of no effect; they shall not bind us nor have power over us. The vows shall not be reckoned vows; the obligations shall not be obligatory; nor the oaths be oaths."
In the Talmud, the Book of Nedarim, 23a-23b, the implications, inferences and innuendos of Kol Nidre is given: "And he who desires that none of his vows made during the year shall be valid, let him stand at the beginning of the year and declare 'Every vow which i make in the future, shall be null.' His vows are then invalid providing that he remembers this at the time of the vow."
The greatest study of the "Kol Nidre"was made by the eminent psycho-analyst Professor Theodor Reik, the celebrated pupil of Sigmund Freud. This important study is contained in Professor Reik's "The Ritual, Psycho-Analytical Studies". In the chapter on The Talmud, on page 168, Professor Reik states: "The Text was to the effect that all oaths which believers take between one Day of Atonement and the next Day of Atonement are declared invalid."
The late Israel Shahak, a Jew, who was Professor Emeritus at Hebrew University in Israel, touched on this in his blockbuster work, "Jewish History, Jewish Religion". In that work, on page 33, Shahak wrote: "What is popularly regarded as the most 'holy' and solemn occasion of the Jewish liturgical year, attended even by very many Jews who are otherwise far from religion? It is the Kol Nidrey prayer on the eve of Yom Kippur -- a chanting of a particularly absurd and deceptive dispensation, by which all private vows made to God in the following year are declared in advance to be null and void."
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