Shema is contained in the mezuzah we affix to the doorpost of our home, and in the tefillin that we bind to our arm and head. |
As he was being brutally put to death by the Romans, he saw the dawn breaking, the time according to the Law to pray the Shema. |
This may explain the Midrash that says Yaakov was reciting Shema when he met Yosef. |
And though Daniel heard, he did not answer because he was reading the Shema. |
Her arrest and detention for uttering the Shema ought to find no sympathy from any Jew. |
In this palace a seal was found bearing a lion and the inscription belonging to Shema, the servant of Jeroboam. |