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Kol Nidrei prayer from 1825 Yom Kippur Machzor (Prayer Book).

Click here to listen to Cantor Angela Warnick Buchdahl chant the Kol Nidrei prayer during the 2008/5769 Kol Nidrei Service held in our Main Sanctuary.

Translation of Kol Nidrei prayer by Philip Birnbaum from High Holyday Prayer Book, Hebrew Publishing Company, NY, 1951:

"In the tribunal of Heaven and the tribunal of earth, by the permission of God — praised be He — and by the permission of this holy congregation, we hold it lawful to pray with transgressors.“

"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".

"May all the people of Israel be forgiven, including all the strangers who live in their midst, for all the people are in fault.”