From the destruction of the First Temple to the synagogues of today, Aramaic reminds us that Jewish identity can endure even when everything around us changes.
I am reading this 1 hour and 13 minutes before the onset of Yom Kippur (in Victoria, Australia) and the reciting of Kol Nidrei. How fortuitous for me and how apt in timing, for the words you have used are not only informative, but exceedingly beautiful. They penetrate the soul and add such dimension to what it is to be Jewish.
and thank you for such an enlightening article... I studied the tanach with tirgum Onkelos and Rashi but I didn't realize how many modern words have their base in Aramaic.
I have always found the Kol Nidre prayer troubling, but you help me understand which vows it addresses. Here in the Diaspora it is usually chanted three times in a row, which is also interesting. I can’t speak for what happens in Israel. I would love to know more about the origins of the melody. Max Bruch did a gorgeous setting of it, often played by a cellist with piano accompaniment in Reform services. I’m guessing that doesn’t happen much in Israel, but it has enough power that it gets people to shul on time for a change!
Lovely and moving piece. שנה טובה
and learned and thoughtful
Fascinating history lesson.
I am reading this 1 hour and 13 minutes before the onset of Yom Kippur (in Victoria, Australia) and the reciting of Kol Nidrei. How fortuitous for me and how apt in timing, for the words you have used are not only informative, but exceedingly beautiful. They penetrate the soul and add such dimension to what it is to be Jewish.
Gmar Hatima tova... ve shana mevurechet...
and thank you for such an enlightening article... I studied the tanach with tirgum Onkelos and Rashi but I didn't realize how many modern words have their base in Aramaic.
I have always found the Kol Nidre prayer troubling, but you help me understand which vows it addresses. Here in the Diaspora it is usually chanted three times in a row, which is also interesting. I can’t speak for what happens in Israel. I would love to know more about the origins of the melody. Max Bruch did a gorgeous setting of it, often played by a cellist with piano accompaniment in Reform services. I’m guessing that doesn’t happen much in Israel, but it has enough power that it gets people to shul on time for a change!
Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
Gmar hatima tova! Am Yisrael Chai!
Thank you for this very valuable and moving teaching!
Fascinating
Thank you, Joshua. I hardly knew anything about this matter, which I find very interesting.