Having recently moved to a state where Jews are few and far between, I have begun to have feelings, stirrings within my soul. This prayer is a synopsis of what I have had to defend for so long. Jews are not out to steal from you. We wish to make the world a better place for our children, for all children. The epitome of the Jewish soul is the desire for a power, a concept that we openly admit is greater and better than ourselves, and we feel guilty when the entire world falters.
To be released from an unkept promise to G-D is not permission to lie. We often make promises in full expectation of keeping, such as "Lord, if you only help me to do this and that, I will find someone I've wronged and make it up to them twofold." Then the person tells us, "I don't want anything of you! I won't take your money or goods! Begone!" So we are unable to keep our vow, and having taken an oath to G-D are stuck unless the Lord of Hosts releases us.
@OrthodoxDarwinist This prayer asks God's forgiveness for vows that were made to God, that weren't kept. E.g., you have a sick child and you utter, Oh, God - if my child recovers I promise whatever . . . and you don't keep that promise. For broken vows against man, this prayer is not relevant. You are free to think that this religion is morally debased - that is your right in a free world. For many, religion provides a moral compass. Like all things in this world, nothing is perfect.
@cantorandopera That was a wonderful answer to @OrthodoxDarwinist. Judaism has so many good things; one could only wish that Christianity had some of it!
@StJouish From a historical and personal perspective, this was the first time I had sung the Kol Nidre Service at Rodef Shalom Congregation, in Pittsburgh in the main sanctuary. I had previously sung it in the "spillover" room. Rodef hosted the "Pittsburgh Platform" for Reform Judaism in the 1800s and is a landmark Synagogue. You bet I was scared! I had a lot of ghosts behind me.
"All personal vows we are likely to make, all personal oaths and pledges we are likely to take between this Yom Kippur and the next Yom Kippur, we publicly renounce. Let them all be relinquished and abandoned, null and void, neither firm nor established. Let our personal vows, pledges and oaths be considered neither vows nor pledges nor oaths."
... that's not oaths to God at all, it's making any oath made to man void, and you know it.
@OrthodoxDarwinist To set the record straight from MY point of view, religion serves a purpose for those who wish to follow it. Taking a piece of liturgy and turning the context into what YOU wish it to mean is irrelevant to those who find great meaning, or solace in a prayer. Hateful people denegrate other's religions. Every legitimate religion brings something positive to those who practice it with honest intent. If you wish to continue to post here with negativity I will delete your words.
@OrthodoxDarwinist You have no idea what you are talking about. If this covers oaths to man, why is it addressed to G-D? And making oaths with the intent of nullifying them later on is not covered because G-D does know what you are thinking.
By the way, you do know that Darwin got a lot of the details of evolution wrong, don't you? His calculations on the timing were way off. So you may want to think twice about being an Orthodox Darwinist.
@OrthodoxDarwinist You don't understand the prayer. You came around to be hateful.Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement. The faith from which you sprung has no Day of Atonement. Just a wacked belief that God died for your sins and that all people are born evil. Judaism is the faith which emphasizes an ethical covenant. The morally debased faith is the one based on a mythology that turns its believers into prosecutors of perpetrators and makes people guilty so they will make The Church rich.
@OrthodoxDarwinist ""It is saying their word is absolutely without honor towards the Goyim." There is absolutely no mention of HaGoyim/other nations. But u dodged my point : Jewish religion more than any other honors ethical action and moral integrity—with a spiritual SEASON of atonement / self-examination which begins with S'lichot the Sabbath before the Jewish New Year & ends after a 24 hour fast at sundown on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. What other religion w/ equal weight?
@OrthodoxDarwinist Contrast the central mythology of Christianity w/ central myth of Judaism. Wwhich points to a more intense ETHICAL sensibility? "God's only son was crucified for our sins because we are born in original sin?" Or: We were redeemed from slavery and we entered into an enduring covenant for righteous action? Which more tied to moral integrity? "Believe in Christ?" "Honor the covenant?" You're embarrassed by your bigoted, uninformed assault against the Jews, yes?
Lol, W.T.F are you on about? You must be crazier than a loon. Where did all this come from? I was simply talking about the moral depravity of the Jewish Kol Nidre prayer, and you come up with some bizarre comment about Jesus being crucified, slavery and covenants?
You do know that talking to one's self is one of the first signs of schizophrenia?
Yesterday I went to Red Rooster since it was too late to go to my favorite sushi bar and get the No.3 take-away - "Korean spicy pork" - which comes in a handy 弁当 box, chopsticks and all. There are some cute waiters there including one particularly buxom Japanese young woman, whom I always allow myself a felicitous flirtation of sorts, with lots of playful kow-towing.
@OrthodoxDarwinist Perhaps...you lack the education or intellect to understand what I wrote clearly and intelligibly—about the apparent priority Judaism places on ethical action as indicated by the festivals on the annual, religious calendar. Or...you lack the humility to admit yours was an unwarranted attack which extrapolates about a religion from one prayer. Or...insults and accusation are your only stock-in-trade. Go back to school? The best cure for bigotry: education.
@dane810 Thanks for your vote of confidence. Although, it must be a sign of dementia that I would waste my time writing a series of responses to a lunatic.
@StJouish You're welcome,and I agree...I'm a Creationist. I believe in the truth concerning Genesis 1:1. And you're right...OrthodoxDarwinist IS a lunatic. And I'm on YOUR side.
@dane810 It's easy to get sucked in to dialogue with hecklers on YouTube. But it's not a meaningful activity. These people are demagogues. the more we write to them, the more we give them a platform for nonsense. I have bumped into OrthodoxDarwinist on another video(s). If he were a sensible person with a real life, and could get anyone live to listen to him would he be spending time planting incendiary comments on YouTube?
@dane810 There is a lot of truth in the Hebrew Bible, but I don't take every word as true. In all some 100-150 authors and editors contributed to the Bible starting maybe as long ago as 4,000 years ago. Since then, humans found out so much more about the earth and the cosmos, biology and the brain.
@dane810 Sorry I made a mistake about the age of the Hebrew Bible. The oldest texts are probably Song of Deborah and Song of Miriam from 9th to 12th Century B.C.E. Clues to age: spelling, content, setting, language, archaeological record.
@OrthodoxDarwinist "There are some cute waiters there including one particularly buxom Japanese young woman, whom I always allow myself a felicitous flirtation of sorts, with lots of playful kow-towing." So when you run out of logical responses you boast of your sexual prowess at a fast-food sushi bar? Who cares? Not even the woman you're harassing, unless it earns a nice tip. (But you don't sound like the generous-tip type.)
@OrthodoxDarwinist your profile describes you as a well educated man. I count 4 majors, and you are going for a phd in veterinary studies, correct?
but then, when you open your mouth, its a whole different story. the things you say are completely false. perhaps you should research things before you discuss them.
also, a man as educated as you should probably be getting a very good job, instead of spending time trolling on Jewish videos.
Unfortunately for me, I actually bothered to read much of the Jewish oral law, and realize just how much of a racist ethnic supremacist cult it is.
I know gentiles are forbidden to read the oral law under penalty of death, but curiosity got the better of me. Why is it so hidden unlike the Tanakh and others? Answer: Because it's hideously morally bankrupt.
If all the Goyim bothered to read it like me, Judaism as a religion would be in big trouble, and that's what you fear.
Unfortunately for me, I actually bothered to read much of the Jewish oral law, and realize just how much of a racist ethnic supremacist cult it is.
I know gentiles are forbidden to read the oral law under penalty of death, but curiosity got the better of me. Why is it so hidden unlike the Tanakh and others? Answer: Because it's hideously morally bankrupt.
If all the Goyim bothered to read it like me, Judaism as a religion would be in big trouble, and that's what you fear.
@Ecologicalification THE JEWS ARE NOT RACIAL SUPREMACISTS! THEY ARE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE! THEY ARE NOT PREDJUDICED! THEY LOVE ALL PEOPLE AS MUCH AS US CHRISTIANS DO! SHAME ON YOU! I'M A PRO-SEMITIC GENTILE,AND I WORSHIP Y'SHUA ELOHIM A.K.A. JESUS CHRIST! YOU'D BETTER READ GENESIS 27:29 OR YOU'LL BE IN DEEP TROUBLE WITH THE HOLY TRINITY! WARNING:DO NOT CURSE ISRAEL OR THE JEWS OR YOU'LL GO DOWN THE TUBES! D'Y'DIG?
The shame is that this beautiful, yearning melody should accompany this text that has understandably be seized upon by anti-Semites to 'prove' the untrustworthiness of Jewish promises. Let it be known that many rabbis and community leaders throughout history have objected to the text of the Kol Nidre, and that many congregations - notably Sephardic ones - have dropped it from the erev Yom Kippur service,
@Alyosha3561 The beauty of all of this is that if you find the text objectionable, don't use it. I, personally, don't see anything wrong with it. The text asks that the individual be absolved of all vows that couldn't be kept between that person and God. It says nothing of the promises we make to our fellow men/women. For broken promises against another person, you must ask forgiveness personally.
Enjoyed your "Kol Nidrei" again this year, Rowena. I'm so, so glad you posted this...it's becoming a yearly tradition for me to listen to you sing this prayer, up here in the "north woods" of Vermont...
@whbclaire Isn't it a most special place? It is one of the "mystical" cities of Israel. It's beauty is only surpassed by its innate feeling of spirituality. It was here that we have the whole kabbalistic notion of shabbat and our song for bringing it in, L'Cha Dodi
@cantorandopera Yes, it was absolutely awe inspiring and stunningly beautiful -- both the synagogue and the town. I was wishing we could spend more than a day there.
Heart-rendingly beautiful; I find this one of the most compelling performances of Kol Nidre I've ever heard. Thank you, Rowna Sutin! If only I could have been there in person...
Paulostroff99: Thanks for sending this to me. I really should not be on my computer today because of Yom Kipur, but I couldn't help it. Very, very beautiful indeed, and thank you so much for sharing this with me on this very important day.
Beautiful photos that were taken...Would you be able to inform where the second photo was taken (one with the blue center) as well as the photo after the black and white please? Thanks.
cantorandopera-Thank you so much for those kind wishes. I wish the very same to you and yours. I assume the vocalist on this video to be you. You have a truly fabulous voice. I'd love to hear you doing a vocalise as in the Rachmanlnov or the Brazilian Bachineros Brazilianos# 5. Sorry for the probably butchered spelling on the latter.
Paul - your compiments are so meaningful to me. I am just about to leave to sing this morning. The Bachianos Brazileiros #5 is a great piece of music - written for Bidu Sayou - Brazil's greatest singer. I am a little long in the tooth for this now, but when I was younger I did study it a bit. It is a hard piece to perform. I was lucky that I spoke Portuguese at one time :))
What a beautiful Kol Nidre this is - the combination and purity of the female voice, cello and choir reach true spiritual heights.How lovely it would be to hear this on professional recording. Thank you for posting this. It is as you say "awesome". The Rodef Shalom Congregation are indeed blessed.
I am a non-practicing Jew living in Europe. I live in the country and there is no Jewish community close by. I was feeling a bit sad thinking about Yom Kippur today. So I clicked on this video for some connection.
Imagine my surprise- Rodef Shalom, Pittsburgh! It was my temple, I was confirmed there (1966)and sang in the choir.
what a lovely connection! thank you for telling me this. Estelle Kruman who was involved in the music then is still coming to services all the time! Shana Tova. Rowna
@equilie I understand your feeling. I am not in my community either and always on the High Holy Days I feel so disconnected. I find solace in these prayers I can find on Youtube. I know you posted this comment a long time ago but it rang out to me.
i hope that in november i will hear the real bruch real kol nidrei perforemed in bucharest by a wonderful cellist n.g but that is a really wonderful performance
Our Synagogue performs the Bruch Kol Nidre as an anthem after the Rabbi's Sermon on Erev Yom Kippur. We have been lucky enough to have had David Primo, one of the principal cellists at the Pittsburgh symphony with us for many years to play with us for the High Holy Days. He is the cellist on this audio as well. And thank you for your compliment.
The internet has it's detractors,but the voice of a YouTuber, such as this, proves the power and beauty of communication through song.I'll spare the superlatives,and just say,thankyou.
BEAUTIFUL! TRULY BEAUTIFUL! As a Pro-Semetic Gentile worshipper of Y'SHUA/JESUS,this prayer is a VERY BEAUTIFUL WORK OF ART!
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@dane810 Thank you very much - please browse on my channel for my upload sung this past year - the sound is very improved. Rowna
cantorandopera 3 days ago
Music is one of the shortest ways to God - whatever people, whatever country, whatever religion, whatever universe. Quod eratd emonstrandum.
terryfisherkant 4 months ago
Having recently moved to a state where Jews are few and far between, I have begun to have feelings, stirrings within my soul. This prayer is a synopsis of what I have had to defend for so long. Jews are not out to steal from you. We wish to make the world a better place for our children, for all children. The epitome of the Jewish soul is the desire for a power, a concept that we openly admit is greater and better than ourselves, and we feel guilty when the entire world falters.
redMotif 7 months ago
To be released from an unkept promise to G-D is not permission to lie. We often make promises in full expectation of keeping, such as "Lord, if you only help me to do this and that, I will find someone I've wronged and make it up to them twofold." Then the person tells us, "I don't want anything of you! I won't take your money or goods! Begone!" So we are unable to keep our vow, and having taken an oath to G-D are stuck unless the Lord of Hosts releases us.
MageScribe 9 months ago
@MageScribe In this prayer, we petition God to exonerate us from these vows, and not to punish us.
cantorandopera 9 months ago
Ah yes the good old Judaic prayer that gives the beholder moral permission to lie to whomever, whenever they want.
Could their be no more morally debased religion than this? One that takes pride in deception and iniquity?
OrthodoxDarwinist 10 months ago
@OrthodoxDarwinist This prayer asks God's forgiveness for vows that were made to God, that weren't kept. E.g., you have a sick child and you utter, Oh, God - if my child recovers I promise whatever . . . and you don't keep that promise. For broken vows against man, this prayer is not relevant. You are free to think that this religion is morally debased - that is your right in a free world. For many, religion provides a moral compass. Like all things in this world, nothing is perfect.
cantorandopera 10 months ago 3
@cantorandopera That was a wonderful answer to @OrthodoxDarwinist. Judaism has so many good things; one could only wish that Christianity had some of it!
56Yeya 9 months ago
@cantorandopera why do you post with "trepidation?" What are you afraid of?
StJouish 8 months ago
@StJouish From a historical and personal perspective, this was the first time I had sung the Kol Nidre Service at Rodef Shalom Congregation, in Pittsburgh in the main sanctuary. I had previously sung it in the "spillover" room. Rodef hosted the "Pittsburgh Platform" for Reform Judaism in the 1800s and is a landmark Synagogue. You bet I was scared! I had a lot of ghosts behind me.
cantorandopera 8 months ago
@LIAR
Nakedly lying for your religion won't work buddy.
"All personal vows we are likely to make, all personal oaths and pledges we are likely to take between this Yom Kippur and the next Yom Kippur, we publicly renounce. Let them all be relinquished and abandoned, null and void, neither firm nor established. Let our personal vows, pledges and oaths be considered neither vows nor pledges nor oaths."
... that's not oaths to God at all, it's making any oath made to man void, and you know it.
OrthodoxDarwinist 7 months ago
@OrthodoxDarwinist To set the record straight from MY point of view, religion serves a purpose for those who wish to follow it. Taking a piece of liturgy and turning the context into what YOU wish it to mean is irrelevant to those who find great meaning, or solace in a prayer. Hateful people denegrate other's religions. Every legitimate religion brings something positive to those who practice it with honest intent. If you wish to continue to post here with negativity I will delete your words.
cantorandopera 7 months ago
@OrthodoxDarwinist You have no idea what you are talking about. If this covers oaths to man, why is it addressed to G-D? And making oaths with the intent of nullifying them later on is not covered because G-D does know what you are thinking.
By the way, you do know that Darwin got a lot of the details of evolution wrong, don't you? His calculations on the timing were way off. So you may want to think twice about being an Orthodox Darwinist.
MFPhoto1 4 months ago
@OrthodoxDarwinist You don't understand the prayer. You came around to be hateful.Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement. The faith from which you sprung has no Day of Atonement. Just a wacked belief that God died for your sins and that all people are born evil. Judaism is the faith which emphasizes an ethical covenant. The morally debased faith is the one based on a mythology that turns its believers into prosecutors of perpetrators and makes people guilty so they will make The Church rich.
StJouish 8 months ago
@StJouish
The point of the Kol Nidre prayer is to absolve the "faithful" of any vows or pledges
It is saying that their word is absolutely without honor towards the Goyim.
OrthodoxDarwinist 8 months ago
@OrthodoxDarwinist ""It is saying their word is absolutely without honor towards the Goyim." There is absolutely no mention of HaGoyim/other nations. But u dodged my point : Jewish religion more than any other honors ethical action and moral integrity—with a spiritual SEASON of atonement / self-examination which begins with S'lichot the Sabbath before the Jewish New Year & ends after a 24 hour fast at sundown on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. What other religion w/ equal weight?
StJouish 8 months ago
@OrthodoxDarwinist Contrast the central mythology of Christianity w/ central myth of Judaism. Wwhich points to a more intense ETHICAL sensibility? "God's only son was crucified for our sins because we are born in original sin?" Or: We were redeemed from slavery and we entered into an enduring covenant for righteous action? Which more tied to moral integrity? "Believe in Christ?" "Honor the covenant?" You're embarrassed by your bigoted, uninformed assault against the Jews, yes?
StJouish 8 months ago
@StJouish
Lol, W.T.F are you on about? You must be crazier than a loon. Where did all this come from? I was simply talking about the moral depravity of the Jewish Kol Nidre prayer, and you come up with some bizarre comment about Jesus being crucified, slavery and covenants?
You do know that talking to one's self is one of the first signs of schizophrenia?
OrthodoxDarwinist 8 months ago
@OrthodoxDarwinist Sorry, I made a mistake. Rational discourse and abstract constructs: over your head.
StJouish 8 months ago
@StJouish
That was "rational".
Ok then.
Yesterday I went to Red Rooster since it was too late to go to my favorite sushi bar and get the No.3 take-away - "Korean spicy pork" - which comes in a handy 弁当 box, chopsticks and all. There are some cute waiters there including one particularly buxom Japanese young woman, whom I always allow myself a felicitous flirtation of sorts, with lots of playful kow-towing.
OrthodoxDarwinist 8 months ago
@OrthodoxDarwinist Perhaps...you lack the education or intellect to understand what I wrote clearly and intelligibly—about the apparent priority Judaism places on ethical action as indicated by the festivals on the annual, religious calendar. Or...you lack the humility to admit yours was an unwarranted attack which extrapolates about a religion from one prayer. Or...insults and accusation are your only stock-in-trade. Go back to school? The best cure for bigotry: education.
StJouish 8 months ago
@StJouish WAY TO GO,ST.JOUISH! YOU TELL HIM!
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@dane810 Thanks for your vote of confidence. Although, it must be a sign of dementia that I would waste my time writing a series of responses to a lunatic.
StJouish 1 week ago
@StJouish You're welcome,and I agree...I'm a Creationist. I believe in the truth concerning Genesis 1:1. And you're right...OrthodoxDarwinist IS a lunatic. And I'm on YOUR side.
dane810 3 days ago
@dane810 It's easy to get sucked in to dialogue with hecklers on YouTube. But it's not a meaningful activity. These people are demagogues. the more we write to them, the more we give them a platform for nonsense. I have bumped into OrthodoxDarwinist on another video(s). If he were a sensible person with a real life, and could get anyone live to listen to him would he be spending time planting incendiary comments on YouTube?
StJouish 3 days ago
@dane810 There is a lot of truth in the Hebrew Bible, but I don't take every word as true. In all some 100-150 authors and editors contributed to the Bible starting maybe as long ago as 4,000 years ago. Since then, humans found out so much more about the earth and the cosmos, biology and the brain.
StJouish 3 days ago
@dane810 Sorry I made a mistake about the age of the Hebrew Bible. The oldest texts are probably Song of Deborah and Song of Miriam from 9th to 12th Century B.C.E. Clues to age: spelling, content, setting, language, archaeological record.
StJouish 3 days ago
@OrthodoxDarwinist "There are some cute waiters there including one particularly buxom Japanese young woman, whom I always allow myself a felicitous flirtation of sorts, with lots of playful kow-towing." So when you run out of logical responses you boast of your sexual prowess at a fast-food sushi bar? Who cares? Not even the woman you're harassing, unless it earns a nice tip. (But you don't sound like the generous-tip type.)
StJouish 8 months ago
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@StJouish
Sorry, I made a mistake. Rational discourse and abstract constructs: over your head.
OrthodoxDarwinist 8 months ago
@OrthodoxDarwinist YOUR NAME IS DANG WRONG! GENESIS 1:1 SAYS:
"IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH!"
I WOULD GET RIGHT WITH JESUS IF I WERE YOU!
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@OrthodoxDarwinist your profile describes you as a well educated man. I count 4 majors, and you are going for a phd in veterinary studies, correct?
but then, when you open your mouth, its a whole different story. the things you say are completely false. perhaps you should research things before you discuss them.
also, a man as educated as you should probably be getting a very good job, instead of spending time trolling on Jewish videos.
3beepu 4 days ago
@3beepu
Unfortunately for me, I actually bothered to read much of the Jewish oral law, and realize just how much of a racist ethnic supremacist cult it is.
I know gentiles are forbidden to read the oral law under penalty of death, but curiosity got the better of me. Why is it so hidden unlike the Tanakh and others? Answer: Because it's hideously morally bankrupt.
If all the Goyim bothered to read it like me, Judaism as a religion would be in big trouble, and that's what you fear.
Ecologicalification 4 days ago
@Ecologicalification oh darn, a goy read the oral law. i better inform Mossad about this.
But seriously, where do you get this crap?
3beepu 4 days ago
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@3beepu
Unfortunately for me, I actually bothered to read much of the Jewish oral law, and realize just how much of a racist ethnic supremacist cult it is.
I know gentiles are forbidden to read the oral law under penalty of death, but curiosity got the better of me. Why is it so hidden unlike the Tanakh and others? Answer: Because it's hideously morally bankrupt.
If all the Goyim bothered to read it like me, Judaism as a religion would be in big trouble, and that's what you fear.
Ecologicalification 4 days ago
@Ecologicalification THE JEWS ARE NOT RACIAL SUPREMACISTS! THEY ARE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE! THEY ARE NOT PREDJUDICED! THEY LOVE ALL PEOPLE AS MUCH AS US CHRISTIANS DO! SHAME ON YOU! I'M A PRO-SEMITIC GENTILE,AND I WORSHIP Y'SHUA ELOHIM A.K.A. JESUS CHRIST! YOU'D BETTER READ GENESIS 27:29 OR YOU'LL BE IN DEEP TROUBLE WITH THE HOLY TRINITY! WARNING:DO NOT CURSE ISRAEL OR THE JEWS OR YOU'LL GO DOWN THE TUBES! D'Y'DIG?
dane810 3 days ago
@dane810
Do you realize only two ethnic groups have ever called themselves "the chosen people".
Hint: one was the Nazis.
Ecologicalification 1 day ago
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Camdentown100 1 year ago
Awesome! TY my dear friend Rowna. For and from a peoples and a culture that will never perish
paulostroff99 1 year ago
Awesome! TY Rowna.
paulostroff99 1 year ago
Awesome! A gem from the heart and voice of an angel. TY
paulostroff99 1 year ago
The shame is that this beautiful, yearning melody should accompany this text that has understandably be seized upon by anti-Semites to 'prove' the untrustworthiness of Jewish promises. Let it be known that many rabbis and community leaders throughout history have objected to the text of the Kol Nidre, and that many congregations - notably Sephardic ones - have dropped it from the erev Yom Kippur service,
Alyosha3561 1 year ago
@Alyosha3561 The beauty of all of this is that if you find the text objectionable, don't use it. I, personally, don't see anything wrong with it. The text asks that the individual be absolved of all vows that couldn't be kept between that person and God. It says nothing of the promises we make to our fellow men/women. For broken promises against another person, you must ask forgiveness personally.
cantorandopera 1 year ago 2
Enjoyed your "Kol Nidrei" again this year, Rowena. I'm so, so glad you posted this...it's becoming a yearly tradition for me to listen to you sing this prayer, up here in the "north woods" of Vermont...
avivagabriel 1 year ago
@avivagabriel New posting coming soon! I hope you get to listen to it . . . .
cantorandopera 1 year ago
The first couple of pictures of a synagogue when I was in Israel last summer. It's beautiful.
whbclaire 1 year ago
@whbclaire The photos of the synagogue in Sfat (Safed) were taken by me :))Rowna
cantorandopera 1 year ago
@cantorandopera Yes! Thank you. I remembered beautiful artist colony town high up in the hills but couldn't remember its name.
whbclaire 1 year ago
@whbclaire Isn't it a most special place? It is one of the "mystical" cities of Israel. It's beauty is only surpassed by its innate feeling of spirituality. It was here that we have the whole kabbalistic notion of shabbat and our song for bringing it in, L'Cha Dodi
cantorandopera 1 year ago
@cantorandopera Yes, it was absolutely awe inspiring and stunningly beautiful -- both the synagogue and the town. I was wishing we could spend more than a day there.
whbclaire 1 year ago
Really beautiful, Rowna! Wish, well, you know what I wish.
mkmkm52 1 year ago
Heart-rendingly beautiful; I find this one of the most compelling performances of Kol Nidre I've ever heard. Thank you, Rowna Sutin! If only I could have been there in person...
avivagabriel 1 year ago
@avivagabriel Thank you Aviva - I am going to rehearsal for it in just 2 hours! I can't believe the HHDays are so soon this year . . . Rowna
cantorandopera 1 year ago
Paulostroff99: Thanks for sending this to me. I really should not be on my computer today because of Yom Kipur, but I couldn't help it. Very, very beautiful indeed, and thank you so much for sharing this with me on this very important day.
Zva26 2 years ago
I'm also watching it from my college!!! Thank you very much! Shana Tova and have an easy fasting!
Rosa (Cambridge, UK)
jinfeyla2 2 years ago
So happy college students can hear part of the Erev Yom Kippur services. Rowna
cantorandopera 2 years ago
watchin it now im my college dorm, thank you so much.
havin my own servuce here :)
have an easy fast all
(Dylan, FL, 18)
SPIT5FIYA 2 years ago
Mazel Tov to you for having your own service - I bet it was very special. Rowna
cantorandopera 2 years ago
Beautiful photos that were taken...Would you be able to inform where the second photo was taken (one with the blue center) as well as the photo after the black and white please? Thanks.
DGromet 2 years ago
Thank you so much!!!!!
Dinorah173 2 years ago
Awesome .Thank you for posting this gem R.
paulostroff99 2 years ago
Thank you Paul - and a very good and healthy new year to you and yours :)) Rowna
cantorandopera 2 years ago
cantorandopera-Thank you so much for those kind wishes. I wish the very same to you and yours. I assume the vocalist on this video to be you. You have a truly fabulous voice. I'd love to hear you doing a vocalise as in the Rachmanlnov or the Brazilian Bachineros Brazilianos# 5. Sorry for the probably butchered spelling on the latter.
paulostroff99 2 years ago
Paul - your compiments are so meaningful to me. I am just about to leave to sing this morning. The Bachianos Brazileiros #5 is a great piece of music - written for Bidu Sayou - Brazil's greatest singer. I am a little long in the tooth for this now, but when I was younger I did study it a bit. It is a hard piece to perform. I was lucky that I spoke Portuguese at one time :))
cantorandopera 2 years ago
l love Rowna and we are friends.
joanabanyeres 2 years ago
joanabanyeres-I'm so pleased to hear that you and Rowna are friends. She is such a nice and talented lady.
paulostroff99 2 years ago
xoxox to the wonderful singer and artist, Joana, and most of all, to my sister across the ocean.
cantorandopera 2 years ago
מקורי!
smitelma 2 years ago
What a beautiful Kol Nidre this is - the combination and purity of the female voice, cello and choir reach true spiritual heights.How lovely it would be to hear this on professional recording. Thank you for posting this. It is as you say "awesome". The Rodef Shalom Congregation are indeed blessed.
fivnten 2 years ago
This is simply wonderful.
Deerfielder 2 years ago
תודה רבה
majoze1 3 years ago
thank you - I read hebrew but I don't have hebrew letters to respond . . .
rowna (racheyl bat leiv v'rifka)
cantorandopera 3 years ago
Thanks Rowna, I don't know the name. Give my love to Pittsburgh.
I have recently heard of a Reform/Liberal congregation here in the area, so I may be 'coming home'after all this time. cheers, Sarah
equilie 3 years ago
I am a non-practicing Jew living in Europe. I live in the country and there is no Jewish community close by. I was feeling a bit sad thinking about Yom Kippur today. So I clicked on this video for some connection.
Imagine my surprise- Rodef Shalom, Pittsburgh! It was my temple, I was confirmed there (1966)and sang in the choir.
thank you. I was really touched.
equilie 3 years ago 15
what a lovely connection! thank you for telling me this. Estelle Kruman who was involved in the music then is still coming to services all the time! Shana Tova. Rowna
cantorandopera 3 years ago
@equilie I understand your feeling. I am not in my community either and always on the High Holy Days I feel so disconnected. I find solace in these prayers I can find on Youtube. I know you posted this comment a long time ago but it rang out to me.
ichweasel 1 year ago
@ichweasel thanks for your response, glad you've found your way to connect.
equilie 1 year ago
@equilie God is always with you. We are all connected.
aTime4UandMe 4 months ago
i hope that in november i will hear the real bruch real kol nidrei perforemed in bucharest by a wonderful cellist n.g but that is a really wonderful performance
sinaia1 3 years ago
Our Synagogue performs the Bruch Kol Nidre as an anthem after the Rabbi's Sermon on Erev Yom Kippur. We have been lucky enough to have had David Primo, one of the principal cellists at the Pittsburgh symphony with us for many years to play with us for the High Holy Days. He is the cellist on this audio as well. And thank you for your compliment.
cantorandopera 3 years ago
Beautifully done.
ERW104 3 years ago
Thank you.
cantorandopera 3 years ago
Glorious voice, but she sounds a bit estranged from Jewish tradition. The song is reminiscent of Kol Nidre.
birmington 3 years ago
That cello and orchestra piece by Max Bruch
cubsrule2040 3 years ago
A glorious voice and a glorious shul! Truly this is one of the loveliest interpretations of Kol Nidre I ever heard ... it is gorgeous.
buddmar 3 years ago
Beautiful voice & beautiful performance! Thanks. Dorothea :))
dorotheafayne 3 years ago
The internet has it's detractors,but the voice of a YouTuber, such as this, proves the power and beauty of communication through song.I'll spare the superlatives,and just say,thankyou.
lochness11 3 years ago
You are very welcome. Rowna
cantorandopera 3 years ago