The Mystery of Yom Kippur’s Most Famous Prayer - Rabbi Menachem Salasnik

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Many of us, we going to turn up Yom Kippur in the night. This is most amazing, amazing evening, the Kol Nidre evening. The men turn up wearing their white kittles, this white robe with their tallis. Everybody's dressed well. You can feel the awe of the moment. And then the chazzan, the person leading the service, gets up there and he says that tune that across the Ashkenazi world, in every single synagogue across the world for No. It's about if by mistake during the year, I said I was going to do something and I didn't say the formula of bli neder, that means without a promise. I didn't say, "I'll do this, but without a promise." So then, I want to sort of wash that away and use a a particular mechanism that can undo that vow that I made. And [laughter] you think to yourself, "One second, this is this is the beginning OF THE MOST HOLY DAY OF THE YEAR. And this is what I'm focusing on?" YEAR. And this is what I'm focusing on?" It's weird. We're coming up to the High Holy Days and on Yom Kippur, this day of atonement, we stand there all day confessing our sins. For those who know, we bang our chests and we go through several phrases called the Al Cheytz, for the transgressions that we've done during this year. There's 44 of these Al Cheytz, 44 transgressions where we beat at heart. And if you look through that list, you'll see that 13 of them are specifically to do with speech. And of

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1. 0:00Many of us, we going to turn up Yom Kippur in the night. This is most…
2. 1:02No. It's about if by mistake during the year, I said I was going to do…
3. 2:02specifically to do with speech. And of the others, there are quite a few that although…
4. 3:03and I'll heal quickly. But words, words will put me in therapy forever. And that's the…
5. 4:04contained, restrained within its boundaries. Then there's something called liquid. Liquid is actually less hard than…
6. 5:05a club. You'd have to be right in front of that person to be able to…
7. 5:35And speech is very much like that. It is very intangible. There is nothing physical about…
8. 7:08our mouth, is the tool of connection. It connects us between us and us and other…
9. 8:12Kippur. We're going to be standing there and we're going to be asking God, "Please give…
10. 9:15They're going to be untrustworthy. When we say, "No, no, I'm going to be better." Why…

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