Kol Nidre: The Lie That Told the Truth
John Kaminski
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n05/mend01_.html
The one time the Jews told the truth was to tell us they will always lie.
It's the Kol Nidre oath.
Every year on the same day, they declare that any promises they had made that year were now officially null and void. They also promised this deal would be in effect for the coming year as well.
Imagine that. A license to lie. Renewable every year. How holy.
A license to lie, sanctified by that holy of holies, The Talmud, which now rains down financial coercion and terror on every government in the known world. And bombs on the babies of Babylon.
And poison in your food and medicine. They give your daughters cervical cancer and it's legal. Totally mindlocked media, on a multiplicity of levels, from cradle to grave. Currently, your so-called government is compiling a file on you. When the Neocon Lockdown comes, they won't let you go off the block without the permission of your local Rabbi. Thus does the American Gulag commence.
Take everybody's money, herd 'em all into camps, where people can only survive by making money taking experimental drugs for cash, while the government comprehensively monitors your progressive robotization. Those who don't survive weren't needed, according to the prerequisites of the rich puppeteers planning all these machinations years if not decades in advance.
The Kol Nidre oath. The most telling reason why Jews â€" any Jews, all those who call themselves Jews â€" can never be trusted.
As the Jewish encyclopedia explains the text
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"All vows, obligations, oaths, and anathemas, whether called 'onam,' 'onas,' or by any other name, which we may vow, or swear, or pledge, or whereby we may be bound, from this Day of Atonement until the next (whose happy coming we await), we do repent. May they be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, and void, and made of no effect; they shall not bind us nor have power over us. The vows shall not be reckoned vows; the obligations shall not be obligatory; nor the oaths be oaths."
"And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them, seeing all the people were in ignorance"
Isn't it nice of Jews to declare that all other peoples may lie and forgive themselves, too? Quite a business proposition, wouldn’t you say?
The tendency to make vows was so strong in ancient Israel that the Pentateuchal code found it necessary to protest against the excessive estimate of the religious value of such obligations (Deut. xxiii. 23). Rash and frequent vows inevitably involved in difficulties many who had made them, and thus evoked an earnest desire for dispensation from such responsibilities. This gave rise to the rite of absolution from a vow ("hattarat nedarim") which might be performed only by a scholar ("talmid ?akam"), or an expert ("mum?eh") on the one hand, or by a board of three laymen on the other.
On account of the passionate nature of the Jews and of Orientals in general, however, and in view of their addiction to making vows, it might easily happen that these obligations would afterward be wholly forgotten and either not be kept or be violated unintentionally (see L. Löw, "Die Dispensation von Gelöbnissen," in "Gesammelte Schriften," iii. 361 et seq.). The religious consciousness, which felt oppressed at the thought of the non-fulfilment of its solemn vows, accordingly devised a general and comprehensive formula of dispensation which was repeated by the ?azzan in the name of the assembled congregation at the beginning of the fast of Atonement. This declared that the petitioners, who were seeking reconciliation with God, solemnly retracted in His presence all vows and oaths which they had taken during the period intervening between the previous Day of Atonement and the present one, and made them null and void from the beginning, entreating in their stead pardon and forgiveness from the Heavenly Father.
As early as 1240 Jehiel of Paris was obliged to defend the "Kol Nidre" against these charges. It cannot be denied that, according to the usual wording of the formula, an unscrupulous man might think that it offers a means of escape from the obligations and promises which he had assumed and made in regard to others.The teachers of the synagogues, however, have never failed to point out to their cobelievers that the dispensation from vows in the "Kol Nidre" refers only to those which an individual voluntarily assumes for himself alone (see RoSH to Ned. 23b) and in which no other persons or their interests are involved. In other words, the formula is restricted to those vows which concern only the relation of man to his conscience or to his Heavenly Judge (see especially Tos. to Ned. 23b). In the opinion of Jewish teachers, therefore, the object of the "Kol Nidre" in declaring oaths null and void is to give protection from divine punishment in case of violation of the vow. No vow, promise, or oath, however, which concerns another person, a court of justice, or a community is implied in the "Kol Nidre."
Right! Try telling that to the Palestinians. Or the relatives of victims of 9/11. Or the Iraqis. Or the Afghanis. Or the Lebanese. Or, especially, the Germans, who allowed them to thrive for a century, only to be rewarded by the absolute betrayal of the Jews to German hospitality. Americans are also clearly in this same boat.