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If you don't know the significance of the word shema--there are variant spellings in English--you really need to follow-up on this.
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From her father she knew that the box was called a mezuzah and that, inside, was a scroll with a prayer, called the shema.
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We are people over whom that word shema has been written.
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The shema is a recognition -- a unique recognition, in Judaism's earliest days -- that there is but one God.
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Sh'ma (or "shema"), Deuteronomy 6: 4, which reads, "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD" First, no Catholic doubts that God is one God! Second, the point of the verse is to emphasize that the ancient Israelites worshipped the true God as opposed to false, pagan, polytheistic gods.
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Typically, tefillin are worn when reciting the morning shema -- the Jewish credo to be recited morning and evening (see Deuteronomy 6:7) -- because the paragraphs of the shema which include the mitzvah to put on tefillin (Deuteronomy 6:8, 11:18) are contained inside the tefillin boxes.
Rabbi Aaron Alexander: Praying On Planes: Rights And Responsabilities
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Saying the shema while wearing tefillin is ideal, but it is not required.
Rabbi Aaron Alexander: Praying On Planes: Rights And Responsabilities
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Saying the shema without tefillin is compared by the Talmud to bearing false witness B.
Rabbi Aaron Alexander: Praying On Planes: Rights And Responsabilities
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If one is on a plane and the time for saying the shema arrives, one can say the shema without wearing tefillin and then put on tefillin later in the day, sometime before sunset.
Rabbi Aaron Alexander: Praying On Planes: Rights And Responsabilities
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Rabbi Caro rules that even if it means decoupling the shema and the morning prayer, "it is greatly preferred that one should pray at home, rather than recite the shacharit prayer in its time while traveling" if one can focus better at home Shulhan Arukh, Orach Hayyim, 89:8.
Rabbi Aaron Alexander: Praying On Planes: Rights And Responsabilities
thesaraheffect commented on the word shema
"Shema yisrael adonai(YHWH) aloheinu echad" and so on (forgive my spelling!). It's bsolutely lovely when sung by a Jewish cantor in certain settings; very moving regardless of your religious affiliation.
March 6, 2009