Kol Nidrei, the prayer which ushers in the holy day of Yom Kippur, is perhaps the most famous one in our liturgy. Ironically, it is not really a prayer at all, but rather a statement.
A statement that deals with promises, vows and other sorts of verbal commitments commonly made in the course of the year. The Torah places strict demands on keeping one’s word, and not fulfilling a vow is considered a serious misdeed.
Kol Nidrei, which means “all vows”, nullifies the binding nature of such promises in advance. One declares all future vows and promises invalid, by declaring that all vows are “absolved, remitted, cancelled, declared null and void, not in force of in effect.”
On Yom Kippur when the essence of the soul is fully revealed, we express our real attitude towards the imperfections which might slip into our behavior, in the coming year. They are thus denied and declared insignificant.
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The Church never used the word Marranos, it used instead the expression Cristianos Nuevos.
The Jews themselves called jokingly those who converted “Mar Anus” = “Mister the Convert” in Hebrew, which sounds like Marranos (pigs) in Spanish.
The first statement it’s not accurate.
Kol nidrey is not for the past but for the future.
Hatoras nedarim is for the past.
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that is why the proper name to call אנוסים nowadays is conversos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converso
all these years.
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