FROM THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION – VA’ETHCHANAN:

Sh’ma Yisrael: YHWH Eloheynu. YHWH echad!

V’ahav’tha eith YHWH Eloheyka, b’kal-l’vav’ka, uv’kal-naf’sh’ka, uv’kal-m’odeka.

V’hayu, had’varym, haeleh, asher anoky m’tzav’ka hayom, al-l’vavka.

V’shinan’tam l’vaneyka, v’dibar’ta bam b’shiv’t’ka b’veytheka, uv’lekt’ka vaderek, uv’shak’b’ka, uv’qumeka.

Uq’shar’tam l’oth al-yadeka, v’hayu l’totafoth beyn eyneyka.

Uk’thav’tam al-m’zuzoth beytheka uvish’areyka.



Hear, O Yisra’el: YHWH is our Elohim. YHWH is one!

And you shall love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might.

And shall be, the Words, these, which I am commanding you today, upon your heart,

and you shall teach them to your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up,

and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.