All These Vows: Kol Nidre
The most memorable prayer of the Jewish New Year--what it means, why we sing it, and the secrets of its magical appeal.
Through a series of lively commentaries, over thirty contributors--men and women, scholars and rabbis, artists and poets, spanning three continents and all major Jewish denominations--examine Kol Nidre's theology, usage, and deeply personal impact. They trace the actual history of the prayer and attempts through the ages to emend it, downplay it and even do away with it-all in vain. They explore why Kol Nidre remains an annual liturgical highlight that is regularly attended even by Jews who disbelieve everything the prayer says.
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Book details
- Edited by
- Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD, Catherine Madsen, Dr. Annette M. Boeckler
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 288
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Series
- Prayers of Awe
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism › Rituals & Practice
Religion › Holidays › Jewish
Religion › Judaism › Theology - Topics
- Yom Kippur · Jewish liturgy · Jewish prayer · Jewish holidays · Jewish theology · vows and oaths · High Holy Days
- ISBN-13
- 9781580234306 (Hardcover)9781681629759 (Paperback)
About the author
RABBI LAWRENCE A. HOFFMAN, PhD, has served for more than three decades as professor of liturgy at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. His recent books include All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet.
Hoffman holds the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair in Liturgy, Worship and Ritual. He is coeditor of My People’s Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award; his My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series won the National Jewish Book Award.
Hoffman is a developer of Synagogue 3000, a transdenominational project designed to envision and implement the ideal synagogue of the spirit for the twenty-first century.