kol dre, all the promises are nullnd void. wha it's ry frightening to imagine that we have no ligations, because it is ouobligations, our promis that defe who we are. the rest of yom kpur, in a sense, is takg back the obligationsreassessing them. kay, i am married, do i nt to be married? what does it mean to have th oigation? he i am a father, what are the obligationthat come with being a father that may have goen distorted ibetween last yom kippur and this yom kipr? whaare my obligations to my work and my aft and my calli? what are mobligations, what are the promises at i've made to myself so k nidre is a very profound method an technology for stripping us all promises and obligations that madistort us, so that we stad there naked, just u with the ability to take back promes, take back obligations er the next 25 hours. the focus of the high liday periois not on death. the focus is on life. it turns out th one of the great ways to cus ourselves on life is to think aut death. that just turnsut to be the radox. sof on yom kippur