The Shema (p)Jewish Publication Society, 2000 - 222 pages |
Contents
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All and Only | 39 |
The Kabbalistic Interpretations | 47 |
One and Contemporary Science | 59 |
Maharal on You Shall Love | 89 |
R Shneur Zalman on You Shall Love | 95 |
R Zadok Hakohen of Lublin on You Shall Love ΙΟΙ | 101 |
R Samuel David Luzzatto on You Shall Love | 107 |
Does God Need Our Love? | 113 |
With All Your Heart and All Your Soul | 129 |
A Halakhic Analysis of the Shema | 171 |
Notes | 179 |
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accept acosmic affirmation aggada ahavah rabbah ahavah tiv'it u-mesuteret ahavat Hashem ahavat olam Akiva Barukh shem kevod Berakhot blessing chapter commandment to love contemporary Creator dalet Deut divine Name divine unity Elohim eschatological evil existence expression faith fulfill halakhic hasidic Hear O Israel heart Hebrew Higher Unification Hilkhot Holy human implies interpretation Israel Jacob Jerusalem Jerusalem Talmud Jewish Jews Judaism Kabbalah Kabbalists kavvanah Kook literally loneliness love and fear love the Lord Maharal Maimonides martyrdom matter means meditation mezuzah Midrash Mishnah Mishneh Torah mitzvah mitzvot Moses Nature Oraḥ Hayyim paragraph passage person philosophical prayer Rabbi Rambam Rashi read the Shema recite the Shema refers religious requires Saadia Sages Scripture sense Shadal Shema Yisrael Shneur Zalman Shulḥan Arukh Sifre soul spiritual study of Torah Talmud tefillin Tetragrammaton theme tion Torah Umadda tradition translation understand wisdom word shema yetzer ha-ra yiḥud Hashem Ziditchover Zohar
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Page 77 - And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Page 147 - And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Page 31 - For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one consent.
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