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שמע | A Paraliturgical Interpretation of the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4-9), by Julia Mossbridge

Contributor(s): Julia Mossbridge
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Shema
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interpretive translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., paraliturgical shema

A paraliturgical translation of the opening paragraph of the Shema. . . .

קריאת שמע | The Recitation of the Shema, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and the Masoretic Text
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Shema
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interpretive translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., devotional interpretation

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of the Shema in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . .

שמע | Sh’ma: an Interpretation for the 21st Century by Rabbi Arthur Waskow (2003)

Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
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Environment, Shema
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eco-conscious, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, Pnai Ohr, Philadelphia, paraliturgical shema, v'haya im shemo'a, interpretation as prayer, Deuteronomy 11:13-21, Numbers 15:37-41, Deuteronomy 6:4

Sh’sh’sh’ma Yisra’el — Listen, You Godwrestlers! Pause from your wrestling and hush’sh’sh To hear — YHWH/ Yahh Hear in the stillness the still silent voice, The silent breathing that intertwines life; YHWH/ Yahh elohenu Breath of life is our God, What unites all the varied forces creating all worlds into one-ness, Each breath unique, And all unified; YHWH / Yahh echad! Yahh is One. Listen, You Godwrestlers! No one people alone owns this Unify-force; YHWH / Yahh is One. . . .

והיה אם שמע | v’haya im shemo’a: a Prayer in a Time of Planetary Danger by Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
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Environment, Shema, Ecotastrophes
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eco-conscious, interconnectedness, שמע shema, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Pnai Ohr, Philadelphia, paraliturgical shema, v'haya im shemo'a, interpretation as prayer, Deuteronomy 11:13-21

A midrashic translation/ interpretation of the second paragraph of the Sh’ma. . . .

שמע | Kabbalistic Commentary on the Shema from Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz’s Siddur Shaar haShamayim

Contributor(s): Isaiah Horowitz and Avrum Goodblatt
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קבלה kabbalah, Lurianic Kabbalah, shamanic praxis

Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz (1565-1630), known as the Shlah from the name of his chief work (Shnei Luḥot HaBrit – The Two Tablets of the Covenant), was a rabbi in Central and Eastern Europe and later Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Jerusalem. This text is an excerpt from his kabbalistic prayer book, Siddur Shaar haShamayim (Gate of Heaven), which deals with the Shma prayer. . . .

שמע | An illustrated meditation on the unification of imagination and awareness through empathy

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady
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Art, Contemplation, Shema, Praxes
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meditation, technique, יחוד yiḥud, xerography, טבע Teva

When works are printed bearing shemot, any one of the ten divine names sacred to Judaism, they are cared for with love. If a page or bound work bearing shemot falls to the ground it’s a Jewish custom to draw up the page or book and kiss it. Just as loved ones are cared for after they’ve fallen and passed away, when the binding fails and leaves fall from siddurim and other seforim they are collected in boxes and bins and brought for burial, where their holy words can decompose back into the earth from which their constituent elements once grew, and were once harvested to become paper and books, and ink, string, glue. While teaching at the Teva Learning Center last Fall 2010, I collected all our shemot that we had intentionally or unintentionally made on our copy machine, or which we had collected from the itinerant teachers who pass through the Isabella Freedman Retreat Center on so many beautiful weekend shabbatonim. While leafing through the pages, I found one and kept it from the darkness of the genizah. . . .

Divine Love, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1848)

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Ahavat Hashem, to love the divine, Prayers as poems

The poem, “Divine Love” by Rosa Emma Salaman, was first published in the Occident 6:7, Tishrei 5609, October 1849, p. 197-198. . . .

Adventures in Ancient Jewish Liturgy: The Ten Commandments and the Sh’ma in the Nash Papyrus

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady
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Shema, Liturgical traditions
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shaḥarit, פרשת יתרו Parashat Yitro, Nusaḥ Beit HaMiqdash

Once upon a time, according to the Mishnah, it was the nusaḥ (liturgical tradition) of the Cohanim in the Bet Hamikdash[ref]Priests of the Temple in Jerusalem[/ref] for the Ten Commandments to be read prior to the Sh’ma. . . .

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