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Title: KOL NIDRE: JUDAISM'S LICENSE TO LIE
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URL Source: http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/kolnidre.htm
Published: Nov 17, 2008
Author: Rev. Ted Pike
Post Date: 2008-11-18 12:02:47 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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KOL NIDRE: JUDAISM'S LICENSE TO LIE By Rev. Ted Pike 17 Nov 08 Seventy-eight percent of American Jews voted for Obama and there are now a record 46 Jews in Congress (nearly six times their proportion to Jews in the American population). As never before, Americans can expect Jewish influence in government. During the Clinton and Bush administrations, Jews attained saturation-level presence in government and cabinet positions. 1 Undoubtedly Obama will be surrounded by powerful Jews; he already appointed an Orthodox Jew as his chief of staff. Will these powerful Jews legislate and judge justly? Will they reflect what is regarded as a common Judeo-Christian tradition of high moral values? It's highly unlikely. In fact, the more religiously observant a Jewish congressman, federal judge, or attorney general is, the more at variance he will probably be with Christian values. Let me explain. Every year through the fall session of Congress, relatively little is accomplished because of lengthy interruptions from Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Today, though Jews constitute only 1.5 percent of the US population, Congress also frequently shuts down so Jewish members may debark, some flying home, for the Jewish holidays. First comes Rosh Hashanah, then Yom Kippur, and finally Sukkoth (See, "Does Congress Always Take Off for Rosh Hashanah?", "Congress quiet on Jewish New Year"). The more religious a Jewish legislator, the more important he attend synagogue on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. This highest Jewish holiday begins on the eve of Passover with rites and collective recitation of the Kol Nidre prayer. The Kol Nidre says, "All vows, obligations, oaths, and anathemas [curses]…which we may vow, or swear, or pledge, or whereby we may be bound, from this Day of Atonement until the next…we do repent. May they be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, and void, and made of no effect: they shall not bind us nor have any power over us. The vows shall not be reckoned vows; the obligations shall not be obligations; nor the oaths be oaths." 2 What is the meaning of this strange and disturbing prayer recited by millions of Jews every fall? Surely, you may say, it cannot literally mean what it says: that Jews invalidate all their promises, contracts, agreements, and even curses throughout the coming year? If that were true, the word of a religious Jew would be meaningless. No rational person could trust anything he said, not to mention elect him to high office. Overturning God's Law To understand the Kol Nidre prayer, let’s first consider the opposite: God’s ancient command to His chosen people to fulfill all their oaths and promises. "When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee...that which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform…" (Deuteronomy 24:21, 23) Yet the Jewish Encyclopedia tells us God’s requirement of promise-keeping ultimately became so burdensome to Jews that, as a result of "their longing for a clear conscience," compassionate rabbinic authorities overturned God's law around the 8th century AD. They collectively absolved entire congregations, instructing them to recite what has became known as the Kol Nidre prayer. 3 At first, the prayer allowed forgiveness for broken promises and curses of the previous year; later, in the twelfth century, it granted pre-forgiveness for sins of unfaithfulness for the following year. Both forms are observed today. Kol Nidre, from its beginnings, was controversial and "aroused bitter controversy" among rabbinical authorities. 4 Dissident, non-Talmudic Karaites also proclaimed it a sham and said it made the word of a Jew worthless. Christian critics leveled the same charge (but are now called "anti-Semitic" for doing so). Such criticism provoked more than a millennium of suspicion, persecution and discrimination against Jews (i.e. much of the "senseless anti-Semitism" with which historical Christianity has been charged). Yet the Jewish people were willing to suffer unspeakable persecutions rather than give up the intoxicating moral release of Kol Nidre. It "became the most beloved ritual of the Day of Atonement." 5 Today synagogues are packed worldwide on the eve of Yom Kippur as millions of Jews, deeply moved by the high drama, pageantry and haunting melodies of Kol Nidre, affirm that their "vows, obligations, and oaths" or curses are forgiven and forgotten by God. All Jewish encyclopedias and authoritative works on Kol Nidre include a powerful disclaimer. They say Gentiles should not feel threatened by Kol Nidre! The prayer's Kol Nidre, we are told, applies only to breaking vows to oneself or to God. It may not be employed to justify breaches of confidence, curses of Gentiles, or lies under oath in civil courts. Testimony from a Christian Jew I posed the question to a Christian Jew, Milton (Brother Nathaniel) Kapner. "What is the reason behind the mass appeal of Kol Nidre," I asked. "Do millions of Jews seek absolution from Kol Nidre because they are tormented with guilt for violating oaths to themselves and God?" Until age 21, Kapner, now 57, was a convinced Jew involved in conservative, Orthodox, and ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At 21, even after finding Christ, he spent a year of intense study with ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher rabbis and scholars. "Kol Nidre," he said, "is a big show. The Jews get worked up by the high drama and cantor singing the haunting Kol Nidre melody. They persuade themselves that every lie they have told over the past year is forgiven. They’re off the hook!" "Are they repenting of lies to God, or also to the Gentiles?" I asked. "All lies and broken vows to everyone are covered," he replied, "except for legal contracts that are enforced by law." He said most Jews consider Gentiles inferior. Most ultra-Orthodox consider them sub-human. Kapner said just as promises made to animals are worthless, so the Talmud (even without Kol Nidre) teaches that promises to the goyim are meaningless. The Talmud frequently says Gentiles may be deceived and defrauded. Jews are above "barbaric" Gentile laws and courts. 6 Also the Jewish Zohar (Kabbalah) repeatedly describes Gentiles as beasts and even demons. (This is substantiated in detail in my 354-page book, Israel: Our Duty…Our Dilemma, available at http://www.truthtellers.org.) (See, "Have You Read the Talmud Lately?", "The Jewish Kabbalah: Root of Mideast Violence") What about the testimony of Jewish authorities that Kol Nidre does not apply to contracts between Jews and Gentiles? "That’s all for Gentile consumption," Kapner said. Can You Trust Your Jewish Congressman? Of course, especially in the US, many Jews are so assimilated and secularized that, though usually liberal, they have shed any high regard for Kol Nidre or the Talmud. Yet according to Kapner's personal experience, a religious, Kol Nidre-reciting, Jewish businessman can cheat you without guilt for the next year. Henry Ford, a businessman who dealt with many Jews, comments: "It requires no argument to show that if this prayer be really the rule of faith and conduct for the Jews who utter it, ordinary social and business relations are impossible to maintain with them." (The Dearborn Independent, Nov. 5, 1921) We should also keep in mind Kol Nidre's permission to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust to lie under oath (as in the Nuremberg trials). Can we continue to accept as fact their testimony of seeing countless Jews destroyed in gas chambers and ovens? It also means an observant Jew in Congress can renege on any promises he makes his constituents in the past or coming year. Gone also is any duty of federal or Supreme Court justices to be loyal to their oath to the Constitution and the United States of America. Do I have this wrong? Incredibly, I don’t. Despite the suspicion and revenge Kol Nidre has aroused, modern Judaism still considers its recitation one of the most sacred duties of Jewish life, liturgy, and tradition. It is so important that as Congress evolves into the "American Knesset," congressional leaders, under control of the all-powerful Zionist lobby, are eager to please Jewish members by sending them home to take advantage of this moral loophole in Judaism. Perhaps, with Jewish activists flooding Congress as never before, promoting perverse Jewish "hate crime laws" and "workplace bias" legislation, as well as bills that persecute Christian/conservative activism, (See, Lobby Reform Bill Cripples Free Speech) we can understand why many Jewish members of Congress need the moral absolution provided by Kol Nidre. There will be a lot of lies to constituents and breaking oaths to uphold the constitution by First Amendment-destroying Jews this session of Congress. Such treachery could really strain anyone’s conscience. But Jewish members of Congress return after reciting Kol Nidre with consciences cleansed. After all, who cares about governing according to the will of the lowly goyim? For them, ruling according to Kol Nidre is the will of God. Endnotes: 1. Michael Collins Piper's books such as The New Jerusalem extensively document the preponderance of Jews in the highest echelons of American government. They are available http://www.americanfreepress.com. Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative watchdog organization. TALK SHOW HOSTS: Interview Rev. Ted Pike on this topic. Call (503) 631-3808. National Prayer Network, P.O. Box 828, Clackamas, OR 97015 ============== Poster Comments: "One Nation Under Israel "One Nation Under Israel" may be the first historically documented expose of the hijacking of the American Congress. It is a popular lament that, "Congress is out of control," but nothing could be further from the truth. For as Author Andrew Hurley clearly explains, Congress is not under the control of its constituents but of a foreign power. ......" www.whtt.org/articles/onui.htm "...Looking just above the eagles head you will see 13 pentagrams within a cloud. The pentagrams are arranged in the shape of a hexagram - or greater Seal of Solomon. The hexagram is a powerful tool used by pagans and sorcerers to invoke Satan. It is also the sign of Anti Christ with 6 points, 6 angles and 6 planes ( 666). ) ....." www.gemworld.com/US-Symbol-1dol.html "...Look again at the United States Capitol (above). At the extreme Eastern side of the Capitol, you can see two cul-de-sacs which are irregularly shaped. In fact, when you draw a bold black line carefully around these cul-de-sacs, and continue the black line around the Capitol, you get the appearance of a horned owl, with the cul-de-sacs as its ears. This is not accidental, either. This is another way of representing Satan. Freemasonry designed the layout of Washington D.C. they placed the owl there and on the American One Dollar Bill. The Southern point of the Goathead Pentagram represented the spirit of Satan reaching into the mind of the goathead, the owl represents the same meaning. In other words, both the Executive and the Legislative Branches of Government are to be controlled by Satan (II Corinthians 4)......." www.gemworld.com/US-Symbol-DC.html Bill Dannemeyer, U.S. Congressman, 1979-1992 “Now the U.S. Government Can Legally Kill Christians,” (BY DECAPITATION) ... http://www.takebackourrights.org/docs/noahidelaw.html / http://www.takebackourrights.org/docs/Christians-full%20page.html Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. http://bible.cc/john/8-44.htm ============== Now, it displeased Samuel that the Israelites wanted a king like all the other nations.....But God let them have their king, saying, "I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime. II Samuel 7:10. "I even I, will search for my Lost Sheep of the House of Israel and bring them to their own land...." Ezekiel 34. "I am not sent but to the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel." Matthew 15:24. "I am the door to the sheep....my sheep know my voice and they follow me...[to the Pharisees] You are not my sheep...." John 10. "I go to prepare a place for you...and will come again and receive you unto myself...." John 14:2-3. "Cape Henry Memorial Cross This cross commemorates the site where a wooden cross was erected by the early English settlers upon their safe arrival to Virginia in April of 1607. According to George Percy, one of the early settlers, "The nine and twentieth day we set up a cross at Chesupioc Bay, and named the place Cape Henry." Here, on the windswept sands, led by Reverend Robert Hunt, the colonists must have knelt in prayer giving thanks for this new land and their safe arrival. " "...Just off the shores here at Cape Henry, on September 5, 1781, two mighty war fleets exchanged cannon shot for about 2 1/2 hours. It is only because of Admiral deGrasse, commander of the French fleet sent to support General George Washington, that the British were unable to relieve Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown. This sea battle helped secure America's independence by assuring Cornwallis was trapped at Yorktown. This panel helps explain Cape Henry's strategic location in reference to two of America's most significant events, the landing of English settlers in April 1607 to establish the First Permanent English Colony at Jamestown and the Battle of the Capes which would lead to America's victory at Yorktown and the end of the American Revolutionary War." http://www.nps.gov/came/ The First Charter of Virginia Seedbed for the Nation by Herbert W. Titus, J.D., March 6, 2007 ".....After describing a geographical area stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, and on a line south to the Carolinas and north as far as Maine, the Charter turned to the founders’ purpose and the King’s acceptance of it: We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government.[1] So the expressed purpose, and the only one written in the Charter, was to establish colonies in the new World as a Christian evangelical witness to the native peoples. And it was pursuant to that purpose that the Virginia General Assembly, in 1619, authorized the establishment of Henricus Colledge. Two days after the Assembly acted to create the Colledge, it set forth its purpose as “laying a surer foundation of the conversion of the Indians to Christian Religion.” To that end, the Assembly required that each city, borough, and plantation “obtain unto themselves by just means a certain number of the natives’ children to be educated by them in true religion and civile course of life...” Finally the Assembly expressed the hope that from these native children some would be “fitted [so that] from thence they may be sente to that worke of conversion” of their own people.[2] Less than three years after the Virginia Assembly acted, the building of the Colledge was underway on a large tract of land in the new settlement of Henrico, just up the James River from the Jamestown colony. But it was cut short, never to be completed at its original site, eventually to be devolved into the College of William and Mary in 1693. While this effort to take the gospel to the native American people failed, and while the general effort to Christianize them also met with little success, the purpose of Virginia colony and Henricus Colledge remains as a testament that America as a nation owes her birth to the Great Commission. The Great Commission Just before Jesus ascended into heaven to the Father, He gave these instructions to the Church: Go ye...and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the on, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 18:19-20) Popularly known as the Great Commission, this passage has inspired and motivated Christians throughout the centuries to take the gospel of Christ to all nations. ....." Jewish Persecution by Jackie Patru | Section Nineteen "Jonathan Williams recorded in his LEGIONS OF SATAN, 1781, that Cornwallis revealed to Washington that,. "A holy war will now begin on America, ... www.sweetliberty.org/perspective/jewishpersecution19.htm Holy war. Micah 4, Psalm 2, Isaiah 10:24-27; Ezekiel 38-39, Revelation 20:7-10, Revelation 3:9. Micah 4:9 "Now why dost thou cry out loud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pains have taken thee as a woman in travail....Isaiah 52:5...they that rule over them make them to howl....and my name continually every day is blasphemed...." [ http://www.noahide.com/yeshu.htm ] ...I will purge out the rebels, and them that transgress against me.... Ezekiel 20:38 ....and all liars shall have their place in the lake of fire.... Revelation 21:8. Just in case anyone is still wondering what's going on from God's viewpoint.
2. Article on "Kol Nidre," The Jewish Encyclopedia, New York, London : Funk & Wagnalls, 1906.
3. Ibid.
4. Article on "Kol Nidre," The Encyclopedia Judaica, Keter Publishing House, Jerusalem, LTD. Israel, 1996.
5. Ibid.
6. The Talmud says Gentiles can be deprived of justice (Baba Kama, 113a), can be cheated (BK, 113b), are animals (Iore Deah 148, 12 Hagah), may be killed (Sanhedrin 59a, Choschen Hamischpat 425.5, Abodah Zarah 26b), can be led to death or not saved from death (Choschen Ham. 425.5, Iore Deah 158). 
"They have not rejected you Samuel; they have rejected me that I should not rule over them." http://www.bible-history.com/old-testament/BKA2Samuel_the_Prophet.htm
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#1. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#0)
AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, you antisemite you... You know that the Jews are gods' chosen and can do anything they want to us, and we are supposed to like it. The more I see of these "jews", the more I am beginning to think that in this one area, Hitler was right. They are a cancer on this planet, and chemotherapy is needed. And I am having a harder and harder time in maintaining the "live and let live" view.
Well, actually, in a way, they are. Ezekiel 38:16 ...I will bring thee against my land, [AMERICA!] that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog [Gog and Magog are the nation of the Jews - (The Thirteenth Tribe, biblebelievers.org )], before their eyes...Ezekiel 39...Thou shalt fall...and the many peoples that are with thee.....Revelation 3:9....to know that I have loved thee [faithful Christians]. Their time is coming soon enough, I think. Have you ever read the Harold Wallace Rosenthal interview? That evil man claims that the Jews' god is Lucifer, and they are HIS chosen people. I don't think ALL Jews believe this by any means, and I sure hope the decent ones wake up soon.
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
#2. To: PSUSA (#1)
AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, you antisemite you... You know that the Jews are gods' chosen
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