How They Think & Pray

Omar Zaid

30 Dec 2021

Jewish behavior, Roth says, is founded in a Jewish belief that all the world's possessions belong to them by divine right. He then discusses the effect of Jews in law, media, medicine, prostitution, literature, arts, and much more. Also included is this fascinating section on the vow- breaking Kol Nidre prayer which is recited on the Holiest Day in the Jewish Calendar, Yom Kippur, the "Day of Atonement."

Aramaic Text	English translation
כָּל נִדְרֵי, וֶאֱסָרֵי, וּשְבוּעֵי, וַחֲרָמֵי, וְקוֹנָמֵי, וְקִנוּסֵי, וְכִנוּיֵי, דִנְדַרְנָא, וּדְאִשְתַּבַּעְנָא, וּדְאַחֲרִמְנָא עַל נַפְשָׁתָנָא. •מִיוֹם כִּפּוּרִים שֶׁעָבַר עַד יוֹם כִּפּוּרִים זֶה, וּ־־• ♦מִיוֹם כִּפּוּרִם זֶה עַד יוֹם כִּפּוּרִים הַבָּא עָלֵינוּ לְטוֹבָה.♦ בְּכֻלְהוֹן אִחֲרַטְנָא בְהוֹן. כֻּלְהוֹן יְהוֹן שָׁרָן, שְׁבִיקין, שְׁבִיתִין, בְּטֵלִן וּמְבֻטָלִין, לָא שְׁרִירִין, וְלָא קַיָמִין. נִדְרָנָא לָא נִדְרֵי, וֶאֱסָרָנָא לָא אֱסָרֵי, וּשְׁבוּעָתָנָא לָא שְׁבוּעוֹת.‎	All vows, and prohibitions, and oaths, and consecrations, and konams and konasi and synonymous terms,^[5] that we may vow, or swear, or consecrate, or prohibit upon ourselves, •from the previous Day of Atonement until this Day of Atonement and ...• ♦from this Day of Atonement until the [next] Day of Atonement that will come for our benefit.♦ Regarding all of them, we repudiate them. All of them are undone, abandoned, cancelled, null and void, not in force, and not in effect. Our vows are no longer vows, and our prohibitions are no longer prohibitions, and our oaths are no longer oaths.

The Jewish Prayer Book lists the following sins which the Kol Nidre Prayer unconditionally forgives the Jew on Yom Kippur:

Sins committed with incestuous lewdness;
Oppressing one's neighbor;
Assembling to commit fornication;
Deceitful acknowledgements;
Violence; Evil imagination;
Denying and lying;
Taking and giving bribes;
Calumny; Extortion and usury;
Haughtiness;
Shamelessness;Lawlessness;
Litigiousness;
Treachery to one's neighbor;
Tale-bearing;False-swearing;
Embezzlement;
Stealing...