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KOL NIDRE
A
Jewish Prayer to Absolve All
Vows
THE KOL NIDRE is a
Jewish prayer named from its opening
words "All vows" (kol nidre), it is
based on the declaration of the
Talmud:-
"He who wishes that his
vows and oaths shall have no value,
stand up at the beginning of the
year and say: 'All vows which I
shall make during the year shall be
of no value.'"
It would be nice if we could declare
that this is merely one of the
curiosities of the darkness which
covers the Talmud, but the fact is that
Kol Nidre is not only an ancient
curiosity; it is also a modern
practice. In the volume of the revised
Festival Prayers published in 1919 by
the Hebrew Publishing Company, New
York, the prayer appears in its
fullness:
"All vows, obligations,
oaths or anthems, pledges of all
names, which we have vowed, sworn,
devoted, or bound ourselves to, from
this day of atonement, until the
next day of atonement (whose arrival
we hope for in happiness) we repent,
aforehand, of them all, they shall
all be deemed absolved, forgiven,
annulled, void and made of no
effect; they shall not be binding,
nor have any power; the vows shall
not be reckoned as vows, the
obligations shall not be obligatory,
nor the oaths considered as oaths."
If this strange statement were
something dug out of the misty past, it
would scarcely merit attention. But as
being a part of a revised Jewish prayer
book printed in the United States in
1919, and as being one of the high
points of the Jewish religious
celebration of New Year, it cannot be
lightly dismissed after attention has
once been called to it.
OPPOSED BY SOME JEWS Indefensibly
immoral as the Kol Nidre is, utterly
destructive of all social confidence,
yet the most earnest efforts of a few
really spiritual Jews have not
succeeded in removing it from the Day
of Atonement services in Orthodox
Synagogues where it is normally chanted
three times, although a rabbinical
conference in Brunswick recommended its
omission.
In America, Britain, and other
countries, Reform and Liberal
Congregations have followed this
advice, but they only comprise a small
portion say 20% of Jews they have
retained the melody of Kol Nidre, but
have revised the prayer.
Thus, Kol Nidre stands condemned by
a portion of Jewry itself. The
Jewish Encyclopedia, 1904, Vol.
VII, page 541, says,
"It cannot be denied that
according to the usual formula, an
unscrupulous man might think that it
(Kol Nidre) offers a means of escape
from the obligations and promises
which he had assumed and made in
regard to others."
EXCUSES
PERJURY One of the most important
aspects of Kol Nidre is that it suborns
or excuses perjury in the Courts in the
case Orthodox Jewish witnesses, whose
testimony, of course, is rendered
worthless by it.
If the prayer were a request for
forgiveness for the broken vows of the
past, normal human beings could quite
understand it. Vows, promises,
obligations and pledges are broken,
sometimes by weakness of will to
perform them, sometimes by reason of
forgetfulness, sometimes by sheer
inability to do the thing we thought we
could do. Human experience is neither
Jew nor Gentile in that respect.
But the Kol Nidre prayer is a holy
advance notice, given in the secrecy of
the synagogue, that no promise
whatsoever shall be binding, and more
than not being binding is then and
there violated before it is ever made.
The scope of the prayer is "for this
day of atonement, until the next day of
atonement."The prayer breaks down the
common ground of confidence between
men: "the vows shall not be reckoned
vows; the obligations shall not be
obligatory, nor the oaths considered
oaths." It requires no argument to show
that if this prayer be really the rule
of faith and conduct for the Jew who
utters it, the ordinary social and
business relations are impossible to
maintain with him.
It should be observed that there is
no likeness here with so-called
Christian "hypocrisy." Christian
"hypocrisy" arises mostly from men
holding higher ideals than they are
able to attain to, and verbally
extolling higher principles than their
conduct illustrates. That is; to use
Browning's figure, the man's reach
exceeds his grasp, as it always does,
where man is more than a clod.
BABYLONIAN CHARACTER OF JUDAISM But
the Kol Nidre is in the opposite
direction. It recognizes by inference
that in the common world of men, in the
common morality of the street and the
mart, a promise passes current as a
promise, a pledge as a pledge, an
obligation as an obligation; that there
is a certain social currency given to
the individual's mere word on the
assumption that its quality is kept
good by straight moral intention.
In straight Christian morality, a
man's word is expected to be as good as
his bond. But the inference of the Kol
Nidre is that man should make provision
to drop below that level of
morality.
How did the Kol Nidre come into
existence? Is it the cause or the
effect of that untrustworthiness with
which the Jew has been charged for
centuries?
Its origin is not from the Bible,
but from Babylon, and the mark of
Babylon is more strongly impressed on
the Jew than is the mark of the
Bible.
Indeed, the Talmud is openly praised
and revered as being Babylonian. And
Kol Nidre is Babylonian Talmudic,
finding its place among many other and
similar dark things within that
many-volumed and burdensome invention.
If the Kol Nidre ever was a backward
look over the failures of the previous
year, it very early became a forward
look to the deliberate deceptions of
the coming year. Many explanations have
been made in an attempt to account for
this. Each explanation is denied and
disproved by those who favor some other
explanation. The commonest explanation
of all is this, and it rings in the
overworked note of "persecution." The
Jews were hounded and harried by the
bloodthirsty Christians. Many learned
men want to have it understood that the
Kol Nidre dates from the Spanish
Inquisition, it having become necessary
on account of all sorts of persecutions
and inflictions to adopt the Christian
religion for appearances sake.
Then the Jews in Spain, gathering in
cellars to celebrate the Day of
Atonement and pardon, composed a prayer
that declared of no value all vows and
oaths that they would be forced to make
during the year...." "The learned men
say, moreover, that in remembrance of
those days when hundreds and thousands
of Maranos (secret, Jews) were dragged
out of the cellars and were tortured
with all kinds of torments, the Jews in
all parts of the world have adopted Kol
Nidre as a token of faithfulness to
faith and as self-sacrifice for the
faith."
THOSE ASSERTIONS ARE INCORRECT The
fact is that the formula of Kol Nidre
was composed on the night of Yom Kippur
quite a time earlier than the period of
the Spanish Inquisition. We find, for
instance, a formula to invalidate vows
on Yom Kippur in the prayer book of
Rabbi Amram Goun who lived in
the ninth century, about 500 years
before the Spanish Inquisition;
although Rabbi Amram's formula is not
Kol Nidre, but Kol Nidrim:
"All vows and oaths which
we shall swear from Yom Kippurim to
Yom Kippurim will return to us
void."
The form of the prayer in the matter
of its age may be in dispute, but back
in the ancient and modern Talmud is the
authorization of the practice:
"He who wished that his vows and
oaths shall have no value, stand up at
the beginning of the year and say:
`All vows which I shall make during
the year shall be of no
value.....'"
"Pharasaism became Talmudism,
Talmudism became Medieval Rabbinism,
and Medieval Rabbinism became Modern
Rabbinism. But throughout these changes
of names, inevitable adaption of
custom, and adjustment of Law, the
spirit of the ancient Pharisee survives
unaltered."
And now compare this with what the
very reverend chief rabbi Doctor J.
H. Hertz wrote in his foreword to
the Socino edition of the Babylonian
Talmud, published in 1935:
"The Talmud is the product of
Palestine, the land of the Bible, and
of Mesopotamia, the cradle of
civilization. The beginnings of
Talmudic literature date back to the
time of the Babylonian exile. The
Babylonian Exile is a momentous period
in the history of humanity, and
especially so that of Israel. During
that exile, Israel found itself. It not
only rediscovered the Torah and made it
the rule of life but, under its
influence, new religious institutions,
such as the synagogue, i. e.,
congregational worship without priests
or ritual came into existence, one of
the most far-reaching spiritual
achievements in the whole history of
religion... ."
Here is the outright admission, from
a late chief rabbi of the Pharisees,
that the religion of the so-called Jews
stems from things learned in Babylon
during the Exile! So proud are these
Pharisees of being connected with the
Babylon against which John The
revelator spoke, that they boast of
babylon as their "capital" for over
1600 years, and call their very book of
life the Babylonian Talmud!
THE SAME OLD PHARISEES The
brainwashed would have you believe,
with them, that the Pharisees are
different now. But the poor innocent
dupes know nothing of the Babylonian
Talmud which proclaims the gospel of
Satan. They would have us all believe
that these who now call themselves Jews
would have nothing to do with the
martyring of the saints, or the
crucifying of Jesus, the Christ. Look
back again at the words of Finklestein:
"...the spirit of the Pharisees
survives unaltered." Does not Pharisee
Finklestein here admit that they are
still Christ killers?
THE MURDER OF JESUS KOSHER STYLE The
Jewish Encyclopedia gives to Jesus,
among other names, the pseudonym of
Balaam. And, using that name here is
what is says concerning His death:
"In the process of killing
Balaam, all four legal methods of
execution: stoning, burning,
decapitating and strangling were
employed (Sanhedrin 1.c.). He met
his death at the age of
thirty-three; and it is stated that
he had no portion of the world to
come (Sanhedrin x2:90a)... ."
THE GOSPEL OF HATE The basic
Talmudic doctrine is more than a Master
Race Complex. It is an Only Race
Concept. According to the Talmud the
goyim (non-Jews) rank as animals. They
have no property rights, no legal
rights under any code whatsoever. Now
can you see why the so-called Jews
claim there is only one race of man?
But they don't really want you to know
what that means. We are merely their
"stupid goy cattle." The Golden Rule of
the Talmud is "milk the goyim, but do
not get caught." Rabbi ben Yohai's
edict is: "Even the best among the
Gentiles deserves to be killed."
(Abodan Zarah 26b).
- Regarding and Gentile property
rights, their possessions are "like
unclaimed land in the desert." (Baba
Bathra 54b).
- "With respect to robbery: if one
stole or robbed or seized a
beautiful woman, or committed
similar offenses, if these were
perpetrated by one Gentile against
another, the theft, etc., must not
be kept, and likewise the theft from
an Israelite by a gentile, but theft
from a Gentile by an Israelite may
be retained." (Sanhedrin 57a).
Here are further expressions of
"brotherhood." Kosher-style, straight
from the Talmud and its supplement, the
Cabala:
- Kethoboth 3b: "The seed (child)
of a Christian is of no more value
than that of a beast."
- Baba Kama 113a: "A Jew may lie
and perjure to condemn a Christian.
b. "The name of God is not profaned
when lying to Christians."
- Hikkoth Akum X 1: "Do not save
Christians in danger of death."
- Kohar I 160a: "Jews must always
try to deceive Christians."
- Zohar I 25b: "Those who do good
to Christians will never rise from
the dead."
- Zohar II 43a: "Extermination of
Christians is a necessary
sacrifice."
- Zohar II 64b: "The Christian
birthrate must be materially
diminished.".
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