Blessings of the Shema

The Shema must be said with intense concentration. See laws 350-354. When not with a minyan, say: God, faithful King! The following verse should be said aloud, while covering the eyes with the right hand: Listen, Israel: the LORD isourGod, °° the Lorn is One. Quietly: Blessed be the name of His glorious kingdom for ever and all time. FAK) Love the Lorp your God with all your heart, with all your Peut.6 soul, “and with all your might. These words which I command you today shall be on your heart. Teach them repeatedly to your chil- dren, speaking of them when you sit at home and when you travel on the way, when you lie down and when you rise. Bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be an emblem between your eyes. Write them on the doorposts of your house and gates. m1. If you indeed heed My commandments with which I charge Devt. you today, to love the Lorp your God and worship Him with all your heart and with all your soul, I will give rain in your land in its season, the early and late rain; and you shall gather in your grain, wine and oil. I will give grass in your field for your cattle, and you shall eat and be satisfied. Be careful lest your heart be tempted and you go astray and worship other gods, bowing down to them. Then the Lorn’s anger will flare against you and He will close the heav- ens so that there will be no rain. The land will not yield its crops, and you will perish swiftly from the good land that the Lorn is giving you. Therefore, set these, My words, on your heart and soul. Bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be an emblem between your eyes. Teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit at home and when you travel on the way, when you lie down and when you rise. Write them on the doorposts of your house and gates, so that you and your children may live long in the land that the Lorn swore to your ancestors to give them, for as long as the heavens are above the earth.