It had to happen. For those who live in their own temples--or do not or cannot go to services--yet want to hear Kol Nidre, the signature Day of Atonement prayer, click here and download - versions from Toronto to Baghdad, Ashkenazi and Sephardic.
You can also sit in on live services at Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, California. Reminds me of my youth, quiet laughter of warm greetings as the congregation gathers, and I can see my father standing in the back of our synagogue, reading the newspaper as services drag on, see him standing on the steps, smoking a Camel with his friends. (But my rabbi never had to tell anyone to turn off their cell phones, as this one does.)
And if, for you, Yom Kippur is merely one of those impossible words to pronounce, its meaning, in a nutshell, is a day spent renouncing oaths made purely for selfish purposes, remembering the larger good, and committing to upholding oaths made on its and, of course, God's behalf. May we all pay it forward for the year to come in honesty and with love.
