After morning prayers and a silent Amidah, a congregational leader opens a small ark and removes a Torah scroll. He holds it aloft as the room fills with the familiar chanting of the “Shema ...

Thus we see that this prayer, our declaration of belief in Hashem, is most fundamental to Judaism. It was with this ... Indeed, it was with these words of Shema Yisrael that our kedoshim went ...

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, but four. The Mishnah in Tamid (5:1) tells us that in Temple times the ...

There is a famous (but difficult to locate [1]) Midrash that discusses The Most Important Pasuk in the Torah. Ben Zoma says, “Shema Yisrael.” (Very easy to understand. A reasonable choice.) ...

Jewish sectarians – some identify them as ... 4:12-13) That is why they were originally said immediately prior to the Shema, and why despite their removal from the prayers Jews continued to ...

The mezuzah contains an important prayer for Jewish people to remember God, the Shema prayer. It can also be found on the doorframe in Jewish peoples’ homes. There are different types of ...