Call of the Shema, a prayer-poem by Todd Greenberg • the Open Siddur Project

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, כוונות kavvanot, שמע shema

Excerpt: This prayer/poem ['Call of the Shema'] came out of Rabbi Greene’s (Rabbi of Cong. Har Hashem in Boulder, Colarado) sermon this past Friday and our Torah Study discussion Saturday morning on Parashat Eikev. . . .

Content:

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	May you listen to the call of the Shema with open heart and mind as you navigate towards the One
	May your encounters unite you towards Eḥad as your life’s journey’s moves you closer to the All
	We hear Jacob became Israel for he has striven with beings divine and human God was in this place and he didn’t know it
	With much struggle Jacob reunited with Esau yet still troubled saw God in his face
	In embrace they wept
	With much struggle we move towards the One With much strife we move to become United
	We weep and take the next steps
	As we limp along towards the One may our Angels protect us, may God lead us
	In Shema we hear In Eḥad we unite In Life we act “God One”

Todd Greenberg writes, “This prayer/poem [‘Call of the Shema’] came out of Rabbi Greene’s (Rabbi of Cong. Har Hashem in Boulder, Colarado) sermon this past Friday and our Torah Study discussion Saturday morning on Parashat Eikev.”