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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dov Ber Weisman’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

So we're going through the it's the foundational fundamental central prayer of the Jewish people in the formal prayer book. Don't forget that more important than the isma schma is not a prayer is just saying is a declaration of faith. Listen here. O Israel, the Lord is our God. The Lord is one. That's not praying. Praying means I'm speaking to God. Schma is not means I'm speaking to God. Schma is not a prayer. So if anyone says to you, did you know the Schma is the most holy and central prayer of the Jewish people? You say, well, apparently it's not actually a prayer. It's a declaration of faith. Do you know what's more important than speaking to God from your heart in English just all the day personal private authentic prayer from your heart more important very very important. But the formal prayers which we said don't really make sense because how can you have a formal prayer? How can you tell have a formal prayer? How can you tell me what to say and when to say it? I say the same thing every day doesn't make sense. Watch the video on the seven reasons why it does make sense. Not going to go through them now. But it does make sense. And everything that doesn't make sense to you in Judaism, it does make sense. It just doesn't make sense to you because you haven't learned yet. We're on blessing number seven. see our affliction. So listen, this is what we've done so far. The first three

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1. 0:00So we're going through the it's the foundational fundamental central prayer of the Jewish people in…
2. 2:04said the first request is let me just have basic human intelligence which not that many…
3. 4:39a word which is a da. So daem is everything is hashem speaking to you. This…
4. 7:15on. So how to not I would say contain ourel only on the material but like…
5. 9:52you see it in this world is this is clearly raton a human being a human…
6. 12:26enough. Just to be like what? There's a bird. God wanted that to be like that.…
7. 14:57Angels are godly. So you have a choice. If you act like an animal, you're worse…
8. 17:35appearing in the world. We see holocausts and horrible, terrible things. So his name isn't representing…
9. 20:12choose how much you're going to turn on. If you turn it on a little bit,…
10. 22:46here because it's very hard to get every Jew in the game and in fact what…

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