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What is the Shema?

Question: What is the Shema?

Answer: The Shema refers to a couple of lines from Deuteronomy (6:4-5) that became the daily prayer in ancient Israel. It is the equivalent of the Lord’s prayer ("Our Father in heaven…") in Christian tradition. The Shema gets its name from the first Hebrew word of the prayer.

The Shema became a twice-daily prayer within Judaism. It was widely practiced. Yahushua was once asked which commandment in the Torah was the greatest. He quoted the Shema:

How important the Shema was for Israelites is revealed from the following words in Deuteronomy 6:

We should:

1) bind them for a sign upon our hand
2) they shall be as frontlets between our eyes
3) write them upon the posts of our house and on our gates
4) teach them diligently unto our children
5) talk about them everywhere
6) have them in our hearts

If we neglect to do this, it is possible that we will receive the mark of the beast in our right hand or in our forehead as it is written:

Conclusion:
We have to remember this most important commandment daily, that Yahuwah our God, Yahuwah is one. The "trinity" can be found nowhere in Scripture.

 

LORD = Yahuwah (H3068); Yahuwah = the proper name of the one true God
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H3068&t=KJV