Reminder: Hattarat Nedarim
Sunday, August 29th, 2010I was asked by Reb Zalman to send along a reminder to you for Hattarat Nedarim / The Release of Vows service, (best done before Rosh Hashanah which begins this year on Wednesday Night, September 8th, 2010).
My first thought was, “Dear Reb Zalman. But I put this out there already!” (cf., Hattarat Nedarim / The Release Of Vows, https://www.jewishrenewalhasidus.org/?p=113).
But then I thought: This is not a thing to just read and file. It matters not if we did this last year, or the year before, or we did not.
What matters is that here we are again. Rosh Hashanah will soon be here and we will be faced with the opportunity to do personal work as we enter Ha-Aseret Y’mei Teshuvah / the Ten Days of Repentance. We will do the Hattarat Nedarim each year before Rosh HaShanah. Then, in subsequent years, we will do it again, and again, (and God-willing, each time from a higher level).
So what is involved?