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Gabrielle Birkner

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Why Kol Nidrei Involves Time Travel

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By Gabrielle Birkner
| My Jewish Learning Verified
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As Yom Kippur evening falls around the Jewish world, the most sacred of holidays begins with the annulling of vows. The ritual of Kol Nidrei, performed right before the Yom Kippur evening service, is a dramatic recitation of a legal formula that cancels vows we’ve made to God; that way, fallible humans do not suffer the consequences of having broken them.
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Psalms in the morgue and scrapped Rosh Hashanah sermons: What rabbis remember about 9/11

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By Gabrielle Birkner
| Jewish Report -(South Africa) Verified
New Yorkers look at posters of missing persons days after the World Trade Center attack in New York on Sept. 11, 2001,. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt AFP via Getty Images) JTA – “Today is the birthday of the world. It is also the end of shiva. September 11 plus 7.” That’s how Rabbi Joshua Hammerman of Temple Beth El in Stamford, Connecticut, began his Rosh Hashanah sermon on 18 September 2001 – 1 Tishrei 5762.
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Psalms in the morgue and scrapped Rosh Hashanah sermons: American rabbis recall 9/11

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By Gabrielle Birkner
| QOSHE
On 25th anniversary of attack, which coincides with start of the Jewish New Year, rabbis describe how it changed both themselves and the US in ways that 'the previous Rosh Hashanah, no one could have imagined'
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