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The Shema is the central prayer of the Jewish faith. Jews utter this single sentence, affirming God’s unity as their final words before dying, as well as at the beginning and ending of each day. Using the Shema as his focus, Lamm, prominent Orthodox scholar and long-time president of Yeshiva University, explores the relationship between spirituality and law in Judaism.

it as something unlimited, and extendible into infinity, than what is visible or tactile. Sense and spirit mutually interact in hearing.3 What was heard at Mount Sinai was not a one-time affair; the voice of God is ubiquitous and continuous. It is up to us to hear it. As R. Joshua b. Levi taught, “Every day a divine voice (bat kol) issues from Mount Horeb” (Avot 6:2). In the act of hearing we sensitize ourselves to what already exists. It is this hearing, this shema, that endows the commandments
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