The metaphysics of an ancient Jewish mantra ( Shema Israel )

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

[Music] welcome to practical spirituality here in Asia tour in the old city of jerusalem overlooking with Western Wall we are discussing today and very we are discussing today and very interesting thing that in Judaism we say every day twice a day and really three times aims space very special mantra which is the shamaya shamaya el estor milk intuition of honey and it's like art it is our hallmark statement it's what you say when you know if you knew we're gonna die you say it you say it before you go to sleep in case you don't wake up you know it's it is it is the thing that's supposed to be on your lips thing that's supposed to be on your lips always but specifically if if you're about to die I've even had students here in Israel who flew back to them dying grandparents just to get their grandparent to say Shama you sort out in you know whatever country their grandparents lived just to get them to say those words before they passed away anyway they are so we're gonna go into it a little bit and I wouldn't mind a whiteboard actually so I'm gonna send this thing away and we'll I'm gonna send this thing away and we'll use this whiteboard a bit there's a couple of cool things you got to know about Chema so by the way just to tell you why we say twice a day and then by going to and then when we go to sleep twice a day is when we say that there's a paragraph afterward that says we're with charcoal Bella of Camejo which means when you lay down and when you rise up so one of the when you lie down means say it at night after there's three stars say it at night then when

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