BRAGADAYJAH
522
Moses
summarized his exposition of the law by concluding, ‘Now these are the commandments,
the statutes and the ordinances which
the Lord our G od commanded me to teach you that you might do them in the land
to which you go to possess it. That you
might fear the Lord your God to keep all his statutes and His commandments
which I command you, your sons and you son’s sons, all the days of your life,
and that your days may be prolonged.
Hear, therefore, O Israel and observe to do it that you may increase
mightily as the Lord the God of your fathers have promised you in the land that
flows with milk and honey.’
‘And
hear O Israel, Moses proclaimed, the LORD your God is one LORD. And thou shall
love the LORD your God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all
thy might.’
This
pronouncement by Moses, [the Shema] that day has continued to live in the
hearts and ears of every child of Israel from that day up to the present time.
It embodies and solidifies the basic monotheistic doctrine of Judaism that
there is one God and father of all. The Shema
is recited every time the children of Israel assembly themselves for worship,
as well as at other times during the day.
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