Kol Nidre
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  • ugly bitchesssssssss

    

  • Reverendjim 1 Please forgive my ignorance Are we saying here; Our Great and Merciful G-D forgives all things before we did anything? Trusting G-D, Knowing as we do, we ask upfront and we are given absolution?

  • Is there anything more thrilling than listening to G-DS men singing to G--D?

  • Shalom brothers Beautiful Gentlemen ! How could I  the Christian not know the foundation of my faith? Fiona

  • kab.tv

  • Im a Jew living in Canada, and I'll be honest, it absolutely fucking disgusts me to see racism in this day and age. Have the genocides of the world modern and older eras taught you nothing? We have to love not hate!! It is the season for peace and love, not fucking racism, and hatred. Just shut up unless you have something kind and genuine to say. If you're going to make racist comment on any video that isn't something white or whatever race/religion that isn't yours, just fucking say nothing!!!

  • @metallover010 Don't shame your faith by resorting to obscenities, Hallul ha-shem!

  • אודי, שנה טובה, גמר חתימה טובה לך ולכל משפחתך,

    אמיר(מחשבים)

  • Gmar hatima tova, ve shana tova le kol am Israel!

  • What a wonderful voice. Ehud Spielman, wow! Thanks for this terrific post.

  • The solemnity of Kol Nidre is because during the INquisition, Jews were forced to renounce their faith and accept Christianity, or face dispossession, expulsion, and even death. Since a vow to God is a sacrosanct oath, this prayer was created to beg God for absolution. It has no connection to oaths or contracts or any such matters between human beings, but only in regard made to vows to God made under duress and threats of dispossession and even death.

  • Sono grato per queste voci

  • Beautiful, just beautiful.

  • Kol Nidre a song sung by Jews to renounce all vows made during the previous years-specifically for those who underwent forced conversions to Catholicism during the Inquisitions that began in the 12th century. FYI. I wish you an easy fast.Shalom.

  • Hey Rommel, You certainly do not sound as a liar, you come through as a genuine idiot. So take your frustrations elsewhere and pollute some other site, that of Goering, Hess ....

  • @MOGILVY1, you are too kind. He is, indeed, smart enough to know that he's lying. No one can be as dumb as to believe all that he spews & still have enough brains to remember to breathe.

  • Many thanks BishopMrs now I have a name to the Cantor.

  • Absolutely amazing

  • Can ayone put a name to this Cantor, I think this brilliant

  • @06chayil06 this Cantor Ehud (Udi) Spielman, originally from Israel, and he is the Cantor of the Bnai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton, FL. I am going to FL in January, and will go to his synagogue to hear him, can hardly wait. He has a beautiful voice, doesn't he?

  • This is so dark, weird thinking it's been sung for centuries. But awesome.

  • @FieldMarshalRommel23, not that you will believe this, but the only contracts the prayer is discussing are those made with G-d. The classic example: "Gee, if you get me out of the jam, Lord, I'll never swear again!" or some such. Things people are bound to break, & thereby, sin. On Jewish law, only those who make the bargains, pledges or oaths can break or dissolve them.

  • @FlaviaR Never make an oath to God you are not going to fully realize! If you lie to God you'd lie to anyone!

  • @FieldMarshalRommel23 It's not referring to agreements made between people, just vows a person makes carelessly to g-d.

  • @5w33ti3 As can be deduced from his nym, 'FieldMarshalRommel23' is not interested in learning any facts, just spreading hate & lies about Jews.

  • @FlaviaR Am i antisemetic if I tell the truth about jews? All I do is tell the truth, The God honest truth!

  • @5w33ti3 Lying to God is the worst sin ever!

  • @FieldMarshalRommel23 I think you forgot to add in the "OMG, Becky..." at the start of your comment, and I to really help ennunciate the phrase properly, you should probably change "ever" to "eh-vurrrr!" Additionally, you're missing the word "like" between the words 'is' and 'the.'

  • @5w33ti3 You should probably be gassed!

  • @FieldMarshalRommel23 lol fair enough

  • such a hauntingly beautiful melody. L'shanna Tova 5772 everyone!

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  • Great voices!

  • Best one of these on the net.

  • Utterly, breathtakingly beautiful. I am a cellist and an atheist, and am studying the version for cello solo and orchestra by Max Bruch. I am trying to learn as much as I can about the Kol Nidre. Thank you for such an incredibly beautiful performance!

  • @volk410 As a jew and a classical musician, I've come to find the Bruch Kol Nidre rather distasteful. I feel it fails to capture the pathos of the Kol Nidre prayer and the service, and to me it dilutes the raw emotion of the prayer. But then again, so does this arrangement here in this video, in my opinion.

  • Very nice!

  • NICE JOB

    

  • Great! Do you have sheetmusic from this version? Where can I find it ?

  • @jerrytimothy1 This is the original Kol Nidre prayer sung to Max Bruch's Kol Nidre arranged for a symphony orchestra with a cello solo. It can be found on the International Music Score Library Project website (just search "imslp kol nidre bruch" in google and you'll find it).

  • Counterpoint

    Rabbis have always pointed out that the dispensation from vows in Kol Nidrei refers only to those an individual voluntarily assumes for himself alone and no other persons or their interests are involved in. The formula is restricted to those vows between man and God alone; they have no effect on vows made between one man and another. No vow, promise, or oath that concerns another person, a court of justice, or a community is implied in Kol Nidrei.

  • Counterpoint

    Rabbis have always pointed out that the dispensation from vows in Kol Nidrei refers only to those an individual voluntarily assumes for himself alone and no other persons or their interests are involved in. The formula is restricted to those vows between man and God alone; they have no effect on vows made between one man and another. No vow, promise, or oath that concerns another person, a court of justice, or a community is implied in Kol Nidrei

  • Counterpoint

    Rabbis have always pointed out that the dispensation from vows in Kol Nidrei refers only to those an individual voluntarily assumes for himself alone and no other persons or their interests are involved in. The formula is restricted to those vows between man and God alone; they have no effect on vows made between one man and another. No vow, promise, or oath that concerns another person, a court of justice, or a community is implied in Kol Nidrei.

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  • @AlienZygote010

    Coming from someone who openly flaunts their racism, blood-lust towards those you consider racially inferior to your fellow Jews (namely Arabs), and what is clearly a bad case of psychopathy.

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  • @AlienZygote010

    I'm not interested in your insane racial hate towards Arabs.

    The reason I assumed you were Jewish because your name is Ya'acov Ben-Uziel and you're a rabid racist Zionist.

    But yeah I think racists like you are filth so please don't talk to me.

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  • @AlienZygote010

    I see from your profile that you're obsessed with guns and violence.

    Why am I not surprised?

    A racist blood-lusting Zionist, so typical I'm yawning.

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  • @AlienZygote010

    Why do you keep on commenting and trying to slander me and then deleting it?

    Fucking loser.

  • Beautiful, beautiful music. Such ashame the Israeli are the Nazis of the 21st century, murderers and humiliators of their neighbours who aren't jewish.

  • I had the pleasure of hearing this choir this past shabbat and I absolutely loved it!!

  • @coinageboy I presume you do not like Jews? Indeed, promises & all made to G'd can be renounced, never those made to another man, Jew or gentile! But don't let the truth be any hindrance in uttering your stupidity.

  • Keep telling yourself that sister. Maybe it will come true.

  • Touches the spirit.

  • "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."

  • @Reverendjim1 The big part to remember is that it is all vows, oaths and pledges between a person and G-d. Many people forget part of it and that vows, oaths and pledges between people are still valid

  • The best I have ever heard. Is there a recording of Cantor Spielman's? I love the choral work as well.

  • Who disliked this?!  Probably neo nazis.

  • Breathtaking.

  • Breathtaking.

    What version is this? Composer/arranger?

  • I wish someone would put the Kol Nidre by Nicholas Jolliet on youtube so I could hear the whole thing....New Brunswick Canada woman

  • So beautiful.

  • Hey aaround, I was brought up in the Ukranian Catholic church and my grandmother was a Jewish Pole. I have the corner on the guilt market.

    I grew up in a largely Jewish neighbourhood and learned to love he wonderful music of the Jewish tradition, my own Ukranian tradition, and the more Western English hymnary. Today my religious views are more closely aligned to B'Hai so I can appreciate every tradition of music without fear or bias.

  • Extremely moving.

  • Without a doubt, this is the most beautiful version of Kol Nidre I have ever heard.

  • shalom

    

  • I have been listening different chantors (jazanim) putting their best voices into Kol Nidrei, since my childhood. I can mention among them Moishe Oysher and Josef Rosenblatt. These chorus is excellent.

  • I was never a Bar Mitzvah and now in my senior years, the Kol Nidre seems to affect me more deeply - It has brought tears to my eyes and a longing for those that have left my life, and for the lost opportunity to have appreciated more deeply the faith that I identify with but know so little about.

  • @marvelliot It is never so late to be a Bar Mitzvah

  • No words can say how this touches my very soul. I praise HaShem for to precious gift He placed in your care and the light it spreads. 

  • Incredible

  • So Beautiful...

    Kol Nidre releases from vows made under duress, such as Jews forced to convert during the Inquisition. It is not a dispensation to break vows as is convenient.

    A person can atone for sins against G-d, but sins committed against other people can only be forgiven by the injured party.

  • The guy with the incredible voice is Cantor Udi Shpielman, but is this his group in Boca Raton? More info, please - and more beautiful Jewish liturgical music!

  • Very soulful and beautiful - sung with kavanah, you can tell. Such a voice this man has!

  • Gmar chatima tova, and have an easy fast.

  • I wish I could be in NYC this evening listening to the Kol Nidrei with my beloved. This warms my heart.

  • Hatima Tova

    David ben shlomo

  • WAU!!!

    Who are you guys?

    who is the lead ch'azan?

  • I love it.

  • That was phenomenal! My choir sings this piece every Kol Nidre.

  • What's this about: "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." ?

  • @zyby and what is your question Sir? Lets say that you made a vow to go to church every day (I will make it simple) but in the end you find this very difficult, because of time, health ect; with Kol Nidre you declared your vow to be void for the future. and this apply to all vows that have to do with your personal relashionship with God alone not with your fellow humans. And start a new page.

  • @oblatusosb Thank you for your reply. My question was as asked and you answered it.

    It seems to me that people should not be encouraged to make vows lightly - i.m.o. there is moral hazard in this. Furthermore it is not clear from the text (from what I see) that this vow excludes fellow humans - If it is not clear in the text then it will remain open to interpretation for all time - that again presents a moral hazard.

  • @zyby Moral hazard? I looked in the Canon Law dictionary and has no voice entry for it. People in need, fear, danger, etc do make vows to their God, just check Leviticus 27,1 Nm:30,3-6 Dt:12,6-12. etc. Moral hazard is totally without merit in this case. On Yom Kippur the Jewish people have Kol Nidre' Roman Catholics have confessions, and all the others I have no idea what they have, and I dont care. I wish you the best for this New Year of salvation.

  • @oblatusosb Thank you for your reply. Roman Catholics confess their sins and ask for forgiveness - that is not the same as asking in advance to nullify contracts you may make. It seems to me that the latter could be seen as smultaneously preparing for deceit and absolution - I cannot see this as being moral in any common sense of the word.

  • @zyby Nedarim 23b: "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 may make in the future shall be null." Footnote: This may have provided a support for the custom of reciting Kol Nidre (edit). The context makes it perfectly obvious that only vows, where the maker abjures benefit from aught. or imposes an interdict of his own property upon his neighbour, are referred to.

  • @ zyby I believe there is a misunderstanding: it's clearly ment to vows that one might not be able to fulfill during the next year. This point was amended to reflect the future and not the past in the XII century when Jews were forced to convert to christianity. Nedarim 23b.It is not abou frivolous vows. In any case my explanation will not fit in this space and might not convince you. so Peace, Pax tibi frater, shalom.

  • @oblatusosb Thank you. And to you - שָׁנָה טוֹבָה.

  • @zyby im sorry but you got the wrong answer acctualy this prey /saying that every one say together help you cencel the vows that accidently became vow for example if you do somthing three times day after day like a mitzva or alike it became almost a vow and you need to ask against three people to sot this "habit" but if you sayed load and clear with the right words that you want to do somthing for a period of time then this saying won't help you at all .you can go to a qualifaid raby and more..

  • A beautiful choral sound, with a satisfactory cantorial performance. Who is this young conductor?

  • Dear east215: I'm not on the site to banter, especially today. but I wish to honor your heart,and your desire to embrace a piece of spirit which you have found in your family history. If you look further than the internet advisors, you may perhaps find a commonality far, far deeper and more profound regarding two paths which have been made antithetical, starting 2000yrs ago. A jew, perhaps, offering commentary on Torah. "if you seek me, you will find me..." - blessings to you, as you seek.

  • I love this this. I was adopted by an Irish couple and recently found out that my birth mother was irish-catholic and my birth father was a sephardic jew. I know that in the jewish faith that i'm a gentile since my mother was a christian. is it possible to embrace both faiths (going to church and temple)?. i'm already circumcised.

  • @east215 According to Reform Judaism, if your father is a Jew and you were raised Jewish, you'd be considered a Jew. It is not possible to embrace both Judaism and Christianity as the fundamental tenets of both religions are too different (Jesus comes to mind, lol). You can certainly attend synagogue services. The High Holy Days is a particularly lovely time to attend.

  • @east215 You will have to make a choice! you cant be both. Both faiths are gifts from God but in the end you will have to choose between God of Abraham and Jesus; or recognise Jesus as God; very hard! Good luck!

  • @east215 Go to a messianic synagogue. I am a Christian and I have been going to a messianic synagogue for 6 months now. In the messianic synagogue I am attending there are perhaps 40 percent Christians. You will be very happy there and you will retain your Jewish traditions and prayers. In our messianic synagogue we pray for our Jewish friends in order for them to embrace Yeshuah. I hope you will. Shalom.

  • @east215

    I know somebody else in a similar situation. His father was Jewish; mother Catholic. He identifies with his Jewish roots. My take on it that you feel Jewish or identify as such, why shouldn't you be. There are plenty of Jews born to Jewish mothers that don't have as much feeling for the religion as you might.

    Embracing 2 faiths just seems to be an oxymoron to me regardless of religions. That doesn't mean you cannot participate in both traditions though.

  • This is a beautiful rendition. Who is the Chazan? Who are the choir members. Can anyone identify these singers?

  • This is one of the most beautiful pieces I have heard!

  • Lunchie3000,

    Have you heard of the Ten Commandments? Here is a small excerpt of them

    6 “You shall not murder.

    7 “You shall not commit adultery.

    8 “You shall not steal.

    9 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

    10 “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.”

    Take a good look at number 9!

  • @MaaraviM. I am neither condemning nor condoning the beliefs expressed in your comment, but I feel obligated to say that 5 out of 10 is NOT a small excerpt.

    Now that we have that established, please proceed with the flame war.

  • @MaaraviM And it would be great if the State of Israel and the people who support it took note of Commandments 6, 8, and 10.

  • Baruj Adonai Avinu malkenu meolam veadolam!!!

  • it is realy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Gorgeous

  • A beautiful arrangement and presentation of this moving piece of liturgy! WHERE can I get hold of a copy of this arrangement?

  • @lynchie3000 You're such an ignorant... don't you know about Jewish history? Several times they were forced to convert to Christianism or Islam. By the Kol Nidre, Jews who wanted to remain Jewish voided the vows of conversion... Ignorant.

  • @djudeo Several means literally; three or more so many would of been a better word.

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    I know much more about Jewish history than the average person, and not the kosher Kol Nidre version either. If you believe that Jews are peaceful, loving, respectful and tolerant then more fool you.

  • @lynchie3000 if you generalize about jewish people reading shit, you're the fool..Jews are.. Jews aren't.. you know all the Jews in the world? What's the "non kosher" version of the Kol Nidre, by the way?

  • At 2:02 in the video it brings tears to my eyes. Beautiful. As a Catholic I can feel the awesome feelings of the music and how it brings us all together.

  • @spicole I suggest you read the lyrics to this prayer: "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."

  • Gorgeous.

  • This performance is like the proverbial paradoxical steak: rare and well done. Thank you for making beautiful music. Beautiful music is the key that opens the door to spirituality.

  • Yes, how "beautiful" and "amazing" your oath-annulling prayer is... "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." Benjamin Freedman knew which way the wind blew.

  • touching!!!

  • amazing choir.

  • I care of an elderly lady. She wept when she heard this beautiful recording. Thank you to the singers and to the person who posted it.

  • beautiful job! Much of it is close to the way I remember it from our orthodox synagogue many, many years ago. The nicest of the renditions I have listened to and just what I was looking for this kol nidre night.

  • lovely...

  • so beautiful, even though I do not know the translation, it touches my soul. Blessings to the prayers of this beautiful vocal rendition.

  • קול נהדר . אני מצדיע למר שפילמן.

  • Awesome!

  • I've commented on this a few times over the past few years. I just wanted to share, once again, brotherly Christian love for my Jewish friends and this music.... Absolutely beautiful.

  • yes it is.. it was useful when Jews were forced to embrace christianity.

  • that is both offensive and a deliberate misunderstanding.

    1. It is a prayer said once a year

    2. it is not designed to break a vow - it appliews to all vows whether to other jews gentiles of deity - asking for forgiveness if a vow has been msade but not fulfilled

    3. contractual promises to jew or gentile are enforceable

    4. jewish law incorporates "derech eretz" respect to the law of the land. As such there is no equivalent of a campaign to impose "sharisa law"

  • Sounds beautiful. Makes me wish I knew the language.

  • A truly beautiful song. I don't know the religious significance of it, but that doesn't stop me appreciating it for what it is - a beautiful and touching piece of music.

  • Amazing..

    The cantor's name is Udi Spielman..

    search his name for more great songs

  • Beautiful, I am catholic, and I love Jewish music tradition,, I can learn from you a lot..

    The Horrible music, that I've to sing in my church..

    Beautiful

  • @aaround I'm catholic and this song as well as many of the Jewish traditional chants draw direct influence from the Catholic tradition of church chant and Gregorian chant....This song is touching yes. I believe chant to be one of the most beautiful forms of musical prayer out there. God bless his people!

  • @aaround Idiot, do you know what these liars are singing here, and what it means to their daily lives and their actions towards non-Jews: The prayer - "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."

  • @aaround

    Actually, it is Catholic influence that produced this beautiful piece. Read it in English and you might see what I mean: this is a dry, legal formula that was set to music in the tradition of the church. I love it (and am Jewish), but love Catholic music too.

  • you mean like Bach? idiot.... you know nothing of that music.

  • @aaround Do you have any idea what this prayer is? The pre-forgiveness to lie. "All vows, obligations, oaths, and anathemas [curses]which we may vow, or swear, or pledge, or whereby we may be bound, from this Day of Atonement until the nextwe do repent. May they be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, and void, and made of no effect: they shall not bind us nor have any power over us. The vows shall not be reckoned vows; the obligations shall not be obligations; nor the oaths be oaths."

  • @SaltyToob Per the Kol Nidre page on Wikipedia: "Rabbis have always pointed out that the dispensation from vows in Kol Nidrei refers only to those an individual voluntarily assumes for himself alone and no other persons or their interests are involved in. The formula is restricted to those vows between man and God alone; they have no effect on vows made between one man and another."

  • @aaround

    Do you know what they're singing?

    They;re singing to "Yahweh" to absolve them of any oaths they have taken or may take in the year to come.

    Ie: They are praying so that they may have a spiritual license to LIE.

    Don't believe me? Look it up.

  • I listened to this with tears pouring down my cheeks, I am eighty years old and live nowhere near a synagogue.

  • @llewri Bless You In your Golden Years...G-D provides a Tabernacle to go where you go...within you...May You Live to see Jerusalem restored...

  • Absolutely gorgeous!!!

  • (the rest), cancelled, null and void, without power and without standing. Our vows shall not be valid vows; our prohibitions shall not be valid prohibitions; and our oaths shall not be valid oaths.

  • All vows, prohibitions, oaths, consecrations, konam-vows, konas-vows, or equivalent terms that we may vow, swear, consecrate, or prohibit upon ourselves - [from the last Yom Kippur until this Yom Kippur, and] from this Yom Kippur until the next Yom Kippur, may it come upon us for good - regarding them all, we regret them henceforth. They all will be permitted, abandoned, (continued)

  • I missed the Yom Kippur / Kol Nidre service last night (still new to Judaism, got my days mixed up). Thank you for this opportunity to hear Kol Nidre.

  • It touches the soul

    So beautifully sung

    Thank you waldog77

  • I probably shouldnt be posting on Yom Kippur, but this Hazzan is unbeliveable. I listened to this rendition for a week preceding Kol Nidre. I would love to attend his service.

  • you're right. Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year and should never be desecrated. It's an opportunity for atoning our sins, not creaing new ones.

  • Love this song, I find it absolutely gorgeous, though I'm not too familiar with Hebew..

    Can anyone give me a quite translation or gist of the song?

    Thanks!

  • Translation is in Comments for today Yom Kippur 5770!

    The words are difficult to understand without explanation. A rabbi should be able to shed some light on it's history and meaning.

  • Kol Nidre is in Aramaic. Close!

    And I agree that this rendition is marvelous.

  • WOW

  • Beautiful is really too plain of a description. Bless the Lord for giving me ears to hear and for preparing my heart for such a time. And what does the Lord require of me? But to do justly to have mercy and to walk according to his ways ...all the Lord has said, I will do.

  • it is fantastic

  • Whose arrangement is this?

  • The Cantor is Udi Spielman...

  • Beautiful simply beautiful.

  • Wow. Simply amazing.

  • A most beautiful rendition...it resonates in your core...who cares what they are wearing...it's a rehearsal...they are fabulous!!!

  • What gorgeous harmony! It's so beautiful. I can listen to this over and over again but not in shul. In shul we need something to inspire our kavanot and this isn't it.

  • Een geweldig mooie versie van het kol Nidre gezongen door een gazzan met een mooie heldere zangstem en goed gearticuleerd.

  • Inderdaad,een mooie stuk.

  • מזמן לא שמעתי קול יפה שכזה. לפני 40 שנה שרתי במקהלת בית הכנסת המרכזי בחיפה במקהלה בניצוחו של מר יצחק הילמן ז"ל. המנצח היה מתמוגג למשמע קולו של החזן מר שפילמן.

  • Beautifull . I am a tenor in an Orthodox Church Choir and we are an accapella choir. Your arangment beautifull and the singing . YOu have mad G*d Happy.

  • I think it's nice that even though some of the members of the choir are apparently not religious, they donned kipot out of respect for this very holy prayer.

  • Wow, kippot!

    This is prayer, the meaning of which is lost on them, I fear.

  • Unfortunately true. Look, they could have performed in jeans and checkered shirts. The fact that they dressed in uniform with kippot.shows that they