Hataras Nedarim

This weeks parsha is about nedarim -vows. Why do we say kol nidrei, releasing ourselves from our vows [hataras nedarim], on Yom Kippur eve? What does Yom Kippur have to do with nedarim??

Rav Soloveitchik [in an article in the Ohr Hamizrach Journal quoted by R' Besdin]: When we uproot our vows we are saying "I wish I never would have vowed in the first place!". This is the attitude we should have on Yom Kippur - "I wish I never would have sinned in the first place!"

Another idea: Keeping a vow is about keeping our word. On Yom Kippur we resolve never to sin again - we do hataras nedarim to remind ourselves that we often don't keep our word. This should serve as an impetus to make our Yom Kippur count.

Ayyyyyyyy Sweetest Friends!! Where were we at neilah last Yom Kippur and where are we Erev Shabbos Parshas Mattos.

SHUVA YISRAEL AD HASHEM ELOKECHA!!!!!!!

Love and blessings!

PS - TZVI MOSHE, here