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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.
Archive 2006-03-01 Mirtika 2006
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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.
Eleh haDevarim ... These are the words ... Mirtika 2006
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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.
March 2006 Mirtika 2006
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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.
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi 1994
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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.
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi 1994
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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.
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi 1994
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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.
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi 1994
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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.
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi 1994
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We are people over whom that word shema has been written.
Holy Experience 2009
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The shema is a recognition -- a unique recognition, in Judaism's earliest days -- that there is but one God.
Wired Campus 2009
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