All these vows
Subtitle: Kol Nidre
By: edited by Lawrence A. Hoffman
Edition: Hardcover ed.
Series: Prayers of awe; Prayers of awe
Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Woodstock, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781580234306
Subjects: Yom Kippur; Liturgy; Kol nidrei; Judaism; Vows (Jewish law)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Morality, meaning, and the ritual search for the sacred  -- Lawrence A. Hoffman; title: Heavenly assembly  -- Marc Zvi Brettler; title: What's in a bowl? Babylonian magic spells and the origins of Kol Nidre  -- Dalia Marx; title: Sermons and history: the "Marrano" connection to Kol Nidre  -- Marc Saperstein; title: Magic of the moment: Kol Nidre in progressive Judaism  -- Annette M. Boeckler; title: Music of Kol Nidre  -- Mark Kligman; title: Kol Nidre: a halakhic history and analysis  -- Eliezer Diamond; title: Choice, commitment, cancellation: vows and oaths in Jewish law  -- Daniel Landes; title: Kol Nidre: translation and commentary  -- [Lawrence A. Hoffman]; title: Kol Nidre from Union prayer book to Gates of repentance  -- Lawrence A. Hoffman; title: Memories of the past, guidelines for the future  -- Andrew Goldstein; title: What if cleverness is foolishness and righteousness an illusion?  -- Jonathan Magonet; title: Words of wisdom or legalese?  -- Charles H. Middleburgh; title: Two Torah scrolls and Kol Nidre: the earthly court below  -- David A. Teutsch; title: At least credit me with being compassionate  -- Tony Bayfield; title: Filling the void  -- Erica Brown; title: Words mean everything, words mean nothing: both are true  -- Ruth Durchslag; title: "Woe is me that I have sworn": the power to annul God's vows  -- Rachel Farbiarz and Ruth Messinger; title: Tyranny of perfection  -- Edward Feinstein; title: Disruption, disorientation, and restarting: the Kol Nidre road to return  -- Shoshana Boyd Gelfand; title: Lifting the curtain: the theatrical Kol Nidre  -- Delphine Horvilleur; title: "It's rather hard to understand": approaching God through sound, not translation  -- Elie Kaunfer; title: Sound and pageantry: willingness, aspiration, and discernment  -- Karyn D. Kedar; title: Is Kol Nidre typical?  -- Reuven Kimelman; title: All bets are off  -- Lawrence Kushner; title: Room with no back, only forward  -- Noa Kushner; title: Imagining nothing  -- Liz Lerman; title: Vote of no confidence  -- Catherine Madsen; title: Over-promise, under-deliver ... and then forgive  -- Rachel Nussbaum; title: Courting inversion: Kol Nidre as legal drama  -- Aaron Panken; title: Kol Nidre mirror to our soul  -- Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; title: Release beyond words: Kol Nidre even on a violin  -- Jonathan P. Slater; title: Night vision: a gift of sacred uncertainty  -- David Stern; title: Ritualizing Kol Nidre: the power of three  -- Ellen M. Umansky; title: All vows? No! Then, which vows?  -- Margaret Moers Wenig; title: How is Kol Nidre like a Dodgers game?  -- Ron Wolfson; title: We are the image of God that God leaves behind for history to know  -- Daniel G. Zemel; title: Oath, or My family story -- Wendy Zierler.