Subject: [ETI Informal All 1AD.05.04.02] The Shema
From: "James R @ ETIMin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Lists @ ETI Min" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:40:31 +0200

Restoration RecordsGreetings

The following is a very fundamental and important message.

Warm regards and blessings

James Robertson

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Subject: The Shema

       

      * Hear Oh Yisrael Yahweh Our Mighty One Yahweh Is One 

      * *And You Shall Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

      The Shema

      When someone asks you whether or not you know what is The Shema - for many readers its first verse comes immediately to mind .  

      Sh'ma Yisrael YHWH Elohaynu YHWH Echad. 
      Hear O' Israel, YHWH our Elohim, YHWH is One. 

      The Shema is the centerpiece of Hebraic understanding about YHWH and one which Yahshua The Messiah confirmed to be so himself. [1]  However, it is rare that any Hebrew teaching would end on merely one verse.  Indeed whenever one either makes aliyah [2]  to the bima [3] or is a student in a yeshiva, the leader or teacher would often simply start the first verse and those listening would know instinctively the remainder of the passage, usually verbatim, and in proper context. [4] 

      So the mere reference to or reading of any particular passage of scripture - to the Torah-based Hebraic mind - immediately conjures up other associated passages of scripture either because of their literal proximity to one another contextually or because of liturgical connections already known to exist between certain passages during worship services.

      In fuller context, The Shema is a compilation of three scriptural passages (Deuteronomy 6:4-9, 11:13-21, Numbers 15:37-41) beginning with Deuteronomy 6:4 and which we are commanded to recite three times daily (if we interpret what YHWH here says literally; and even more often than that if one interprets these verses allegorically).  

      Please take particular note of the verses where YHWH says that He is ONE, that YHWH's commandments are to be upon your heart [5], that we are to teach YHWH's commandments to our children, that our very blessings are conditioned upon our faithfully doing these (and the other commandments) of YHWH, that we are to be careful to not be enticed after other "gods" who are not YHWH [6] , and how YHWH's anger will burn against those who violate these commandments.

      If you claim belief on YHWH, then after you have read through he full Shema, please ask yourself if you are striving to the best of your ability to adhere to the admonishments which YHWH lays out within these verses.  Also ask yourself if there is anything you have been taught, anything or anyone you may be following, and any beliefs or practices you may still be participating in that do not agree with what these verses teach.  If you find that your ways do not conform to these ways, stop - turn around - and return to the true ancient path - the ways of YHWH. 

      Barukh Shem k'vod malkhuto l'olam va-ed 
      Blessed be the Name of His esteemed Kingdom forever - 

      V-ahavta et YHWH Elohecha b-chol l'vavcha u-v-chol naf'sh'cha u-v-chol m'odecha 
      And you shall love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 

      V-hayu ha-d'varim ha-ayleh asher anochi m'tzav'cha ha-yom al l'vavecha. 
      These commandments that I give you today shall be upon your heart 

      U-k'shartam l'ot al yadecha, v-hayu l-totafot bayn aynecha 
      Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads 

      V-limadtem otam et b'naychem l-daber bam b-shivt'cha b-vaytecha, u-v-lecht'cha baderech, u-v-shachb'cha u-v-kumecha 
      Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home, and when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up 

      U-ch'tavtam al m'zuzot baytecha u-vi-sharecha 
      Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates 

      V-haya im shamoa tish'mu el mitzvotai asher anochi m'tzaveh etchem ha-yom, l-ahavah et YHWH Elohaychem, u-l-avdo b-chol l'vavchem u-v-chol nafsh'chem. 
      So if you faithfully obey the commands that I am giving you today, to love YHWH your Elohim and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul 

      V-natati m'tar artzchem b-ito, yoreh u-malkosh; v-asafta d'ganecha, v-tirosh'cha v-yitzharecha 
      Then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and oil. 

      V-natati aysev b-sad'cha li-b'hem'techa; v-achalta v-savata 
      I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle and you will eat and be satisfied 

      Hishamru lachem, pen yifteh l'vavchem, v-sartem va-avadtem elohim achayrim, v-hishtachavitem lahem 
      Be careful or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. 

      V-charah af YHWH bachem, v-atzar et ha-shamayim v-lo yihyeh matar, v-ha-adama lo titayn et y'vulah; va-avadtem m'hayrah mayal ha-aretz ha-tovah asher YHWH notayn lachem. 
      Then YHWH's anger will burn against you, and He will shut the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yeild no produce and you will soon perish from the good land that YHWH's giving you. 

      V-sam'tem et d'varai ayleh al l'vavchem v-al naf'sh'chem; u-kshartem otam l-ot al yedchem, v-hayu ltotafot bayn aynaychem 
      Fix these words of Mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads 

      V-limadtem otam et b'naychem l-daber bam b-shivt'cha b-vaytecha, u-v-lecht'cha baderech, u-v-shachb'cha u-v-kumecha 
      teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 

      U-ch'tavtam al m'zuzot baytecha u-vi-sharecha 
      Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates 

      L'ma'an yirbu y'maychem vi-y'may v'naychem al ha-adamah asher nishba YHWH la-avotaychem latayt lahem ki-y'may ha-shamayim al ha-aretz. 
      So that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that YHWH swore to give your forefathers. As many as the days that heavens are above the earth. 

      Vayomer YHWH el Mosheh laymor 
      And YHWH spoke to Moshe saying 

      Daber el b'nay Yisrael v-amarta alayhem, v-asu lahem tzitzit al can'fay vi-g'dayhem l-dorotam v-natnu al tzitzit ha-canaf p'til t'chaylet 
      Speak to the children of Israel and say to them; throughout the generations to come you are to make tzitzit on the corners of your garments with a blue cord on each tzitzit 

      V-hayah lachem l-tzitzit, u-r'iytem oto u-z'chartem et kol mitzvot YHWH, va-asiytem otam v-lo taturu acharay l-vavchem v-acharay aynaychem, asher atem zonim acharaychem. 
      And you will have these tzitzit to look at, and so you will remember all the commands of YHWH that you will obey them and not prostitute yourselves by going after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes 

      L'ma-an tiz'k'ru v-asitem et kol mitzvotai, vi-h'yiytem k'doshim laylohaychem. 
      Then you will remember to obey all my commands and will be consecrated to your Elohim. 

      Ani YHWH Elohaychem, asher hotzaytiy etchem mayeretz Mitzrayim, li-h'yot lahem laylohim. Ani YHWH Elohaychem. 
      I am YHWH your Elohim who brought you out of Mitzrayim to be your Elohim. I am YHWH your Elohim.

      NOTES

      [1] Mark 12:29-32.

      [2] Aliyah: rise up; ascend.

      [3] Bima: the elevated structure in a synagogue on which is placed the Torah scroll and from where the liturgy and teaching proceeds.

      [4] Yahshua The Messiah does similarly, for example, when at the Roman sacrificial stake he cites from Tehillim 22; he expects his listeners to understand that what was taking place at that moment was fulfilling the entirety of that Psalm which many present that day would have known by memory. 

      [5] i.e., to do them; cp. Numb. 15:39; Deut. 4:1-6; 31:5.

      [6] and this means ALL such "other gods" including man-made-gods of any kind who are not YHWH; cp. Yermiyahu (Jeremiah) 16:19-21.

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