Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An opening prayer recited on the eve of Yom Kippur, retroactively or preemptively declaring the annulment of all personal vows made to God in the previous or following year.
- noun The melody to which such a prayer is chanted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The opening words of the most solemn prayer of the Jewish ritual for the eve of the atonement fast.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the opening prayer on the eve of Yom Kippur
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Johnny Mathis was no stranger to Jewish music when he recorded "Kol Nidre," the soul-stirring Aramaic prayer sung at the start of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
SFGate: Top News Stories Spe datebookletters@sfchronicle.com (Jesse Hamlin 2011
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Mathis grew up listening to Jewish melodies in synagogues, and it was his 1958 recording of "Kol Nidre," the Aramaic prayer intoned at the beginning of Yom Kippur, which inspired the exhibition.
SFGate: Top News Stories Kathleen Dixon 2011
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(Soundbite of song, "Kol Nidre") Mr. JOHNNY MATHIS (Singer): (Singing) Kol Nidre veesore vacharome.
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(Soundbite of song, "Kol Nidre") Mr. JOHNNY MATHIS (Singer): (Singing) Kol Nidre veesore vacharome.
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(Soundbite of song, "Kol Nidre") Mr. JOHNNY MATHIS (Singer): (Singing) Kol Nidre veesore vacharome.
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(Soundbite of song, "Kol Nidre") Mr. JOHNNY MATHIS (Singer): (Singing) Kol Nidre veesore vacharome.
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As the service begins, Cantor Erin Frankel stands behind a wooden podium adorned with an elaborate bouquet of white lilies, and intones the opening strains of the Kol Nidre, a hauntingly beautiful prayer sung in operatically styled Aramaic, accompanied by a professional cellist and choir.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Standing on an outcrop of rock I chanted Kol Nidre.
Rabbi Yael Levy: Yom Kippur In The Canyon: A Fast Of Presence Rabbi Yael Levy 2011
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Composed by a holy master during one of the many Inquisitions where Jews were forced to renounce their Maker or die, Kol Nidre declares the opening of heaven's gates to the cries of the Jewish people; its sacred stanzas calling for the penitent to renounce prior renunciations and return to the Holy One as clean and white as newborn lambs.
Cheryl Pearl Sucher: Life Is Prayer During The Days Of Awe Cheryl Pearl Sucher 2011
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For the last years of his life, my father, as a former president of his Long Island congregation, was granted the supreme honor of carrying the Torah during the recitation of the Kol Nidre.
Cheryl Pearl Sucher: Life Is Prayer During The Days Of Awe Cheryl Pearl Sucher 2011
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