Shema Israel

The Shema is considered the most important prayer in Judaism, and its twice-daily recitation is a mitzvah (religious commandment).

Deut 6
4Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:5And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.9And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.








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Another Famous Jewish Song (not the traditional Shema) - BEAUTIFUL song!

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In Hebrew:



Shma Israel elohay ata akol yahol
Natata li et hayay natata li akol
Beenay dima alev bohe besheket
Ouhshe alev shotek aneshama zoeket
Shma Israel elohay ahshav ani levad
Hazek oti elohay asse sheloefha
Akeev gadol veen lean livroah
Asse sheigamer ki lo notar bi koah

Kshealev bohe azman omedmilehet
Adam rohe et kol hayav pitome
El alo noda ou lo rotse lalehet
Le elohav kore al saf neor


Shema Yisrael (or Sh'ma Yisroel or just Shema) (Hebrew: שמע ישראל‎; "Hear, [O] Israel") are the first two words of a section of the Torah (Hebrew Bible) that is a centerpiece of the morning and evening Jewish prayer services. The first verse encapsulates the monotheistic essence of Judaism: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord is One." The Shema is considered the most important prayer in Judaism, and its twice-daily recitation is a mitzvah (religious commandment).

The term "Shema" is used by extension to refer to the whole part of the daily prayers that commences with Shema Yisrael and comprises Deuteronomy 6:4–9, 11:13-21, and Numbers 15:37–41. These are in the weekly Torah portions: VaEtchannan, Eikev, and Shlach respectively.

Deut 6

⁴Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:⁵And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.⁶And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:⁷And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.⁸And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.⁹And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Deut 11

¹³And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,¹⁴That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.¹⁵And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.¹⁶Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;¹⁷And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.¹⁸Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.¹⁹And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.²⁰And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:²¹That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Numbers 15

³⁷And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,³⁸Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:³⁹And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them ; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:⁴⁰That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.⁴¹I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.