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What does Shema mean?

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Proper noun
  1. The central creed of Judaism, recited at least twice daily by religious Jews.
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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.

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