kol nidre in English
noun
1
an Aramaic prayer annulling vows made before God, sung by Jews at the opening of the Day of Atonement service on the eve of Yom Kippur.
There are moving stories of the cathartic power of Kol Nidre bringing Jews to tears during the terror-numbing years of the Holocaust.
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1. Beys The history of our houses is a history of dissolution, like vows on Kol Nidre—our walls are no longer walls, our doors, no longer doors, our roofs, no longer roofs
2. Max Bruch, a German Protestant, (but a student of the German Jewish composer Ferdinand Hiller) made an arrangement, Kol Nidrei, of the Jewish Yom Kippur prayer Kol Nidre for cello and orchestra.