There are almost as many recordings of Kol Nidrei as there are cantors to sing it. This year, lovers of cantorial music were given a special treat because the prayer is included in a new CD by Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot and master violinist Itzhak Perlman titled Eternal Echoes: Songs and Dances for the Soul.
We found the Kol Nidrei cut from the CD on YouTube, along with a short video of Perlman and Helfgot preparing for the 2011 concert at which the CD was recorded. Both videos appear below. We hope they enrich your Yom Kippur experience.
We will be attending Yom Kippur services in Jerusalem this week, so there will be no posts on Tuesday and Wednesday. We'll be back on Thursday with our usual Jewish Humor Central mix, with an emphasis on the holiday of Sukkot, which starts next Sunday evening.
We wish all of our readers a G'mar Chatima Tova, a wish that even the buses in Jerusalem are carrying this week.
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Your blog is wonderful just the way it is -- the right mix of humor, pathos, information and culture.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year and thank you.
The Pearlman-Helfgot video is outstanding.
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Max Bruch wrote an arrangement of Kol Nidre. He didn't compose the melody -- the melody (or more likely, melodies that were later stitched together into one) arose between the 12th and 15th century in the Germanic regions of Europe. We know the text predates Rav Amram (9th century) because he is familiar with it and, like many early rabbis, was highly critical of it. Other than that, we really don't know for certain when, where, or even why the text was originally composed, since it doesn't actually conform to any formula for annulling vows that halacha would accept. That being said, this is a beautiful rendition.
ReplyDeleteRabbi Daniel Swartz -- Temple Hesed of Scranton