shema in English

noun
1
a Hebrew text consisting of three passages from the Pentateuch and beginning “Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one.” It forms an important part of Jewish evening and morning prayer and is used as a Jewish confession of faith.

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1. The Bedtime Shema or Kriat Shema al Hamitah, is an extended version of the traditional Shema prayer and is recited before going to sleep

2. Shema Poor Catechumen., Cabuyao, Laguna

3. The Jewish Creedal Prayer Shema Yisroel, adonai elohenu, adonai echod

4. 23 The shema is still repeated daily by devout Jews the world over.

5. The blessings before Shema are expanded, and include the hymn El Adon, which is often sung communally.

6. 1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, The Baker Family Circus, Baker's Dozen (Omnibus), Volume 4, page 129, The night before the Bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet

7. Benchers with English 15 item; Hadlakas Neiros (Candle Lighting Blessing) 35 item; Holiday Bencher/Segulah Books 152 item; Kriat Shema 25 item; Laminated Benchers 24 item; Mincha Maariv 30 item; Segulos & Tefilos 78 item; Zemiros with Bentching 54 item

8. (Ac 15:21) Such public reading of the Law and Prophets was the synagogue custom and, according to rabbinic sources, followed this program: First, the Shema, or what amounted to the Jewish confession of faith, taken from Deuteronomy 6:4-9; 11:13-21 and Numbers 15:37-41, was read.