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shematwo, Shema text, paragraph two follows on from paragraph one. It is also from the Torah, Deuteronomy. And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou may gather in thy wheat, and your wine, and youre oil. And I will send grass in your fields for your cows, that thou may eat and be full. Watch out, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And then the LORD's wrath will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the sky, and there be no rain, so that the land will not grow food; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. The Shema is pre-occupied about monotheism. It was written at the time of the great monotheistic revolution in our religion, when the 70 canaanite gods were all compacted into one god. Worshipping the old Gods was was to be punished severely by EL, who has now swallowed up all the others., The Torah commands sacrifices - of money, of time (all that time spent praying), and time spent doing God's will. This is loving God with all your heart, all your soul and all your strength (possessions). sexual limitations are also sacrifices There is an argument in the talmud about a gentile slave who is owned by 2 masters. One frees him. The slave, if both free him, becomes a full Jew. The sexual laws ( and all other laws too) will apply to him, and he won't be able to have as many girlfriends as he wants. Do the rabbis force him to be made a Jew by making the second partner free him, or do they keep him a slave, and make the first guy buy him back.? The rabbis end up saying that even though it will be unpleasant to have to limit himself sexually, and so becoming a Jew will lessen his pleasure in life, nevertheless, we force him to be freed, so that he can "enter under the wings of the divine presence". This tale tells us that the sexual laws in the Torah are also a sacrifice., Shema text, paragraph two follows on from paragraph one. It is also from the Torah, Deuteronomy. And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou may gather in thy wheat, and your wine, and youre oil. And I will send grass in your fields for your cows, that thou may eat and be full. Watch out, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And then the LORD's wrath will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the sky, and there be no rain, so that the land will not grow food; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. not when you do this literally, said the rabbis, but at the time that you rise up and lie down., That your days may be multiplied - the Shema promises a long life for people who obey God. Acher Acher was a famous rabbi, called Elisha ben Abuya. He became a heretic when he saw a young man obey his father by climbing a tree to shoo away the mother bird to get the eggs ( A command in the Torah, that also promises long life as a reward). The boy fell from the tree and died. The boys was obeying two commands that directly promised long life - and still died. Elisha ben Abuya concluded that the Torah was false, and he became an Epicurean., Shema text, paragraph two follows on from paragraph one. It is also from the Torah, Deuteronomy. And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou may gather in thy wheat, and your wine, and youre oil. And I will send grass in your fields for your cows, that thou may eat and be full. Watch out, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And then the LORD's wrath will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the sky, and there be no rain, so that the land will not grow food; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. If you are good, God will bring the rain, and there will be food to eat. If you are bad, you will be starved to death in a famine., Shema text, paragraph two follows on from paragraph one. It is also from the Torah, Deuteronomy. And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou may gather in thy wheat, and your wine, and youre oil. And I will send grass in your fields for your cows, that thou may eat and be full. Watch out, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And then the LORD's wrath will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the sky, and there be no rain, so that the land will not grow food; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. That your days may be multiplied - the Shema promises a long life for people who obey God., Shema text, paragraph two follows on from paragraph one. It is also from the Torah, Deuteronomy. And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou may gather in thy wheat, and your wine, and youre oil. And I will send grass in your fields for your cows, that thou may eat and be full. Watch out, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And then the LORD's wrath will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the sky, and there be no rain, so that the land will not grow food; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. repitition of the first paragraph., Shema text, paragraph two follows on from paragraph one. It is also from the Torah, Deuteronomy. And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou may gather in thy wheat, and your wine, and youre oil. And I will send grass in your fields for your cows, that thou may eat and be full. Watch out, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And then the LORD's wrath will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the sky, and there be no rain, so that the land will not grow food; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. The Torah commands sacrifices - of money, of time (all that time spent praying), and time spent doing God's will. This is loving God with all your heart, all your soul and all your strength (possessions)., Shema text, paragraph two follows on from paragraph one. It is also from the Torah, Deuteronomy. And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou may gather in thy wheat, and your wine, and youre oil. And I will send grass in your fields for your cows, that thou may eat and be full. Watch out, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And then the LORD's wrath will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the sky, and there be no rain, so that the land will not grow food; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. ????
