Why is the shema important to judaism
Rabbi Yehudah Black - Why is the Shema so Important?
hello my name is rabbi in the back and I
am the rabbi of the Canton shop today
I'm going to speak about why is the
Jamar so important
first I want to tell you what is the
comma the Shema is composed of three
paragraphs one - from Deuteronomy and
one from numbers the Shema is not a
prayer per se in the fact that we do not
petition or request God for an ancillary
from our mother
the Shamar is the declaration of faith
of the June the first paragraph speaks
about accept God as our God the second
focuses on accepting his mid-forties
precepts and the concept of reward and
Punishment the third paragraph focuses
on divine revelation and its its it it
is with the words of the Shema that the
June departs from this one and it is the
word said the person recites twice a day
every morning and evening the first
words are as follows shema yisrael
hashem elokenu hashem afar listen o
Israel Lord our God the Lord is one
these are the words accepting him as one
as a king notice the words Shema and f
that when it's written in the Torah the
iron and the dollars are within larger
meaning eight witness the effort the one
God is one sands or the palace stands
for one that yet the seven heavens and
the one Walton developed the full
dimensions of this world this is
followed with the Declaration of the
hafta enter Gemini Kemba lover God then
teaching the Torah and the words of the
Shama to our children and binding the
words on the hands on the head the
tefillin and lighting them these words
on the mezuzah
these are the fundamentals of what it
means to be a Jew
