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Shma Israel - Prayer before retiring at night - Kriyat Shma al Hamita - Part 2

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Rabbi Alon Anava

Shma Israel - Prayer before retiring at night - Kriyat Shma al Hamita - Part 2

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so first we said we have the preparation before shma shma itself the act of saying shma has the a very spiritual very strong spiritual power getting connected with AEM when we say we have to to concentrate on each word what what it means so the has you know explanations each word what the kavana has to be we're not going to go through this now but when we saying when we're saying the you know can be but we have to say we have to first of all I don't know how you say in English like to make the whole word longer you have to meditate that hasem is one this is on the we have to meditate that there's seven how do you say it's not a sky there's seven Heavens right that's how it's called so the seven Heavens the one Earth and the goes on the four corners of the world which basically goes on goes on where is HEM hasem is all over the place is in all the and in this world and where else all the all four corners of the world hasem is basically everything you have to basically meditate how everything everything is and this is what we have to meditate on the and the whole concept of is what's called and actually says that when we're saying the word one has to meditate like his if he giving his his his life away because the biggest biggest Mitzvah one can do is to die on K to and we see that in all the history the ones that were to to give their life away for the sanctifying the name of hm they gave their life away by saying is being that that going to the highest

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  1. 0:00so first we said we have the preparation before shma shma itself the act of saying
  2. 3:47quality in him and if I say that person is such and such with my words
  3. 7:41like does nothing make sense right right but on God he says so says the other
  4. 12:04mind you created this Heaven you created the the whole Army of the heavens you created
  5. 15:47say when my head is on the pillow is not enough you have to say the
  6. 20:01because the that comes from the neish is slowly slowing going down but the because the
  7. 23:44creates looks like him and it's considered his son I'm talking about the what we talked
  8. 28:08know there's many things is the first time that you do you do yeah you do
  9. 32:25says is the the amount of the they took out from so there was there's an
  10. 36:13but so he told me he told me the only time that I will give you

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