As I write, Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement – is being observed by self-identified Jews the world over, a growing number of whom have been critical of Israeli Prime Minister “Bibi” Netanyahu’s track record of committing to negotiations or other agreements aimed at establishing peace, only to then sabotage the entire process.
In other words, it has become perfectly clear to even the most casual observer, Jewish and otherwise, that Netanyahu’s word most certainly is not his bond. Insofar as the most powerful actors in Zionist circles are concerned, however, Bibi is far from alone in this regard.
In fact, the breaking of one’s word is baked into the bagels, so to speak, and this according to the Jew’s own “sacred” texts.
Which brings us back to Yom Kippur.
On this, the holiest day of the Jewish year, religious, and even many secular Jews, enter the synagogue where they will recite (chant, actually) a prayer known as Kol Nidre, Aramaic for “all vows.”
The prayer reads as follows in English:
All vows, and prohibitions, and oaths, and consecrations, and bans, and terms, and obligations that we vow, and swear, and devote, and prohibit upon ourselves – from this Yom Kippur until the next Yom Kippur, may it come upon us for good – regarding all of them, we regret them.
Let all of them be annulled, canceled, voided, and nullified. Let them not be valid or binding. Our vows are not vows; our prohibitions are not prohibitions; our oaths are not oaths.
Imagine standing at Holy Mass on Easter Sunday dictating such evil terms to Almighty God Himself?
It bears mention that even among those who are able to phonetically pronounce the words that comprise the Kol Nidre, as well as other traditional Hebrew or Aramaic prayers, very few Jews have a solid enough grasp of the language to produce a meaningful translation of the texts.
In other words, many today are unaware of what they are actually saying, which is not to suggest that the prayer’s ethos is necessarily foreign to them as a result. More on that momentarily.
In any case, for obvious reasons, once the meaning of the Kol Nidre became known to non-Jews, it has been a source of controversy for centuries. And just as one might expect from those who have the audacity to make such a declaration before God, many lies have been told in order to downplay its importance.
One of the lies most often told to justify the Kol Nidre is that it came about in response to the forced conversions that were carried out during the Spanish Inquisition, which began in 1478.
In addition to the fact that this story doesn’t explain why the Kol Nidre is prayed even now, at a time when Jews are nowhere being forced to convert, the prayer itself and the attitude that it expresses are many centuries older, as we shall see.
In any event, this poor attempt at an excuse is nothing more than a version of the much more widespread perpetual Jewish victimhood fable, which is used with impunity by the Zionist supremacist class in order to foment collective guilt among the gentiles while furthering their nefarious agenda.
Another very common cover story aimed at dismissing the Kol Nidre’s importance is the claim that it’s not really a prayer at all, but rather “a dry legal formula,” a cut-n-paste excuse that appears in hundreds of Jewish books and websites verbatim.
This too is a blatant lie.
While the Kol Nidre is most often prayed in Aramaic, a Hebrew version is also prayed in some places, and it includes the phrase:
… we announce before our father in heaven that if we vowed a vow, there is no vow…
Add to this the fact that the Kol Nidre is invoked just once a year in the synagogue, on the holiest of days, and not just by individuals, but rather by the entire community gathered together with their rabbi in the presence of the Torah scrolls.
To suggest that it is anything other than a prayer is so disingenuous as to make one laugh.
So, from where did the vile ideas expressed in the Kol Nidre prayer originate?
I suspect you know the answer: The Talmud, which includes the following.
One who desires that his vows not be upheld for the entire year should stand up on Rosh HaShana and say: Any vow that I take in the future should be void. And this statement is effective, provided that he remembers at the time of the vow that his intent at the beginning of the year was to render it void. (Nedarim 23b)
Rosh HaShana, incidentally, is the Jewish new year, a High Holy Day that precedes Yom Kippur by ten days, inaugurating a period of preparation for the Day of Atonement.
According to the Talmud, if the vow maker remembers (secretly, obviously) that he made his intent known at the beginning of the year to render his vows worthless, he has no obligation to uphold his pledge.
As for the Talmud’s place in contemporary Jewish life, one notes that Israeli Chasidic Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, who is very well known for producing the Steinsaltz Edition of the Talmud, said of the ancient text (a compendium of rabbinic teaching compiled between roughly the 3rd and 6th centuries A.D.):
It’s a central pillar for understanding anything about Judaism, more than the Bible. The Talmud is not a divine gift given to people. The Jewish people created it. But on the other hand, it created the Jewish people. In so many ways, we’re Talmudic Jews, whether we believe in it or not. (Times of Israel,August 9, 2012)
This is quite an admission and an accurate one at that. Steinsaltz is clear: The Talmud, which is not of divine origin, created the so-called “Jewish people” of today, and this whether the people realize it or not.
The “Talmudic Jews,” as the rabbi calls them, include men like the Prime Minister of Israel and his closest associates.
With all that has been said in mind, how confident can anyone be that Netanyahu is a sincere negotiator?
Who can possibly trust that he is being truthful when he enters into an agreement (e.g., a cease fire), or when he speaks about the specter of Iranian nuclear weapons, or when he insists that he and his government were totally taken by surprise by the events of October 7, 2023, or anything else that might roll off his forked tongue?
The answer is as obvious as his track record.
