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שְׁמַע | Shema, a paraliturgical reflection by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman

Contributor(s):	Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman
Categories:	Shema
Tags:	שמע shema, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., paraliturgical shema, English vernacular prayer, affirmation, shame resilience, paraliturgical reflections
	A paraliturgical reflection of the second blessing prior to the Shema, the Birkat Ahavah, for a shame resilience practice. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Julia Mossbridge
Categories:	Shema
Tags:	interpretive translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., paraliturgical shema, paraliturgical reflections
	A paraliturgical translation of the opening paragraph of the Shema. . . .

שְׁמַע | The Shema, interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s):	Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and the Masoretic Text
Categories:	Shema
Tags:	interpretive translation, שמע shema, 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 | Kabbalistic Commentary on the Shema from Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz’s Siddur Shaar haShamayim

Contributor(s):	Isaiah Horowitz and Avrum Goodblatt (translation)
Categories:	Shema
Tags:	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. . . .

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
Categories:	Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Ecotastrophes, Shema
Tags:	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. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
Categories:	Shema
Tags:	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. . . .

השמע ועשרת הדיברות | the Shema prefaced by the Decalogue, as found in the Nash Papyrus (ca. 2nd c. BCE)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady
Categories:	Shema
Tags:	shaḥarit, פרשת יתרו Parashat Yitro, Nusaḥ Beit HaMiqdash, 2nd century B.C.E., 37th century A.M., Decalogue, עשרת הדיברות aseret hadibrot
	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. . . .

שְׁמַע | Shema, an interpretive translation by Rabbi Arthur Waskow (2003)

Contributor(s):	Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Categories:	Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Shema
Tags:	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. . . .

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