BONUS EPISODE: Kol Nidrei...misunderstood - with Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

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🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, begins in a few days. Kol Nidrei, is one of the most misunderstood parts of the Jewish high holidays -- and of the entirety of Jewish liturgy -- according to Rabbi Meir Soloveichik. He laid this out in a recent thought-provoking piece in The Wall Street Journal, which you can access here: https://tinyurl.com/44e4z7z8 Rabbi Soloveichik is the senior rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in Manhattan, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. He is also director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. He has a must-listen daily podcast called Bible 365, which you can access through the Tikvah Fund. He is prolific – he writes a monthly column in Commentary magazine, and his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Mosaic, the Jewish Review of Books, and many other outlets. You can keep up with all of his work at meirsoloveichik.com

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0:00.0	You're highlighting your Ashkenormativity Dan, and I actually feel that this
0:04.3	podcast is no longer a safe space. I don't feel safe and you'll be hearing from my
0:08.8	attorneys. Yom Kipur, the day of atonement, begins in a few days.
0:25.6	Koldny Dre is one of the most misunderstood parts of this Jewish high holiday
0:30.6	and one of the most misunderstood parts of the entirety of Jewish
0:34.3	liturgy that's according to Rabbi Mayor Solovechik he laid this all out in a recent
0:39.3	thought-provoking peace in the Wall Street Journal Rabbi Mayor Mayor Solovechik, or Sali as we call him, is the senior rabbi of congregation
0:47.6	charit Israel in Manhattan or the Spanish-Portugue, which is the oldest Jewish congregation in the
0:54.5	United States. He's also the director of the Strouse Center for Torah and Western
0:58.3	Thought at Yeshiva University. Sali has a must listen to daily podcast called Bible 365, which you can
1:07.3	access through the Tikva Fund or wherever you get your podcasts. Sali is also super prolific. He writes a monthly column for
1:16.0	commentary magazine. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the
1:19.4	New York Times, Mosaic, the Jewish Review of books, and many other outlets.
1:23.6	You can keep up with all of his work at mayor solovechic.com.
1:28.3	I won't attempt to spell mayor solovechic.
1:31.9	It's one of those things it's like if you know, you know. And as I mentioned
1:36.5	he just penned this Wall Street Journal piece called The Meaning of a Yom Kippur prayer, which I highly
1:42.0	recommend and we'll talk about today. This is
1:45.2	Call Me Back.
1:49.3	And I am pleased to welcome to the podcast for the first time my very dear friend Rabbi
1:56.2	Mayor Solovechik I will call him Soli on this conversation because whenever I'm
2:01.8	actually chatting with him that's how we refer to him as this conversation.
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