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The Greatest Commandment: How the Sh’ma Leads to More Love in Your Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

“What is the greatest commandment?” Yeshua was asked. His reply was twofold. His first response is this: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, and you are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your understanding, and all your strength. And his second is this: You are to love your neighbor as yourself. Yeshua (Jesus) saw this central creed of the...

Judaism. These words are “Judaism’s highly charged assertion of God’s oneness, of God’s covenant faithfulness to Israel, his people, and their commitment to him alone, followed by the recognition that he is also the One God of all creation” (Nanos, 180–81). Declaration of the first line of the Sh’ma is also an act of testimony. It is usual to enlarge the first and last letters (‘ayin and dalet), which together form the word ‘ed. That is the Hebrew word for “witness.” As we say the familiar words
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