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Shema

In Judaism, prayer from the Torah that affirms Jewish belief in the one God, and the special relationship of the Jews with God. It plays an important part in most services and worship, and is recited by Orthodox men every morning and evening.

The Shema is taken from Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and 11:13–21, followed by Numbers 15:37–41. It begins with the Hebrew for ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One’, and goes on to emphasize the importance of loving God completely, obeying the commandments and teaching them to one's children, and keeping God to the forefront of the mind.
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And if we bring that "re/remembering" to the shema, along with a measure of the creative spirit of rabbinic midrash, we might experience this more engendered shema yisrael as a call transmitting not only the memory of our forefather Jacob's encounter with a divine male being but also a memory of the matriarchs, Sarah the Great One and Rebekah, the sarah of Jacob's naming as Israel.
The Engendered Shema: Sarah-Echoes in the Name of Israel by MARK, ELIZABETH WYNER / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
There is one mistake: the chet in echad, the last word of the Shema Yisrael sentence, appears as a dalet.
A Visit to Casale Monferrato by KAPLAN, LOUIS / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
has also entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
The Jewish Wars: Reflections by One of the Belligerents by Fackenheim, Emil L. / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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