Rabbi Reuven Lauffer - Basic Judaism: The Shema - Part 1

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

foreign aside from finish the cake is we are going to uh take a take a closer look at the Shema we mentioned it yesterday we talked about it yesterday um today we'll have a look inside and see what we've got over here um just at the beginning I mean first of all there these are these are paragraphs that are coming out of the Torah um the first thing that we begin saying is like we mentioned yesterday declaration we talk about God being one God is the only entity that can be described as one if you take a look inside of the sofa Toro there's an interesting thing the last letter of the word Shema is an iron and the last letter of the word which is the last word in the in the sentence is a Dullard and they're written bigger is here here in the sitter you can see the iron and the dalid have been written bigger as well in the safer turrets written like that so you know it's it's easy to see it iron and Dullard together spell out the word Aid which is a witness which means that when we come to recite the Shema when we come to declare is serving witness to the fact that God is the the the is everything right thank you the omnipotent one uh that was very biblical of you I think and uh and uh and we're so we're coming over here we're coming to give testimony to that idea to that fact um the first verse the first paragraph of the Shema which we'll look at it you know and it's Hashem shortly is talking about accepting upon ourselves God's Heavenly yoke what's called kabbalat accepting upon ourselves the Yoke that God is king um again what obviously what we need is

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