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Kol Nidre: Yom Kippur's Most Famous Melody

Kol Nidre: Yom Kippur's Most Famous Melody

Update: 2022-09-29
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Kol Nidre is recited at the beginning of evening Yom Kippur services, and serves as an emotional and dramatic opening to the Day of Atonement. However, over the centuries, this legalistic text has been maligned, ridiculed, banned – and even used to justify anti-Semitic attacks.

In this episode, guest scholars Laura S. Lieber and Judah Cohen, along with host Avishay Artsy, discuss what Kol Nidre says, where its melody comes from, and the unique place it holds in Jewish religious and cultural life.

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Kol Nidre: Yom Kippur's Most Famous Melody

Kol Nidre: Yom Kippur's Most Famous Melody