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<font size=3>The most important utterance in Judaism is the Shema’:
Shema’ yisrael adonai eloheinu adonai ehad. (Hear O Israel, the Lord our
God, the Lord is one.) This declaration of the absolute unity of God is
the cornerstone of our faith. By Biblical mandate, a Jew recites the
Shema’ twice daily, be-shokhbekha u-ve-kumekha (“when you lie down and
when you rise up”). See Deuteronomy 6:7. <br><br>
All of the above is quite famous. What remains today a little known fact
is that once upon a time this recitation was accompanied by head
movements to the four directions, and up and down. This practice is
recorded both in the Ge’onim (post-Talmudic Babylonian sages) and the
Rishonim (medieval European sages). <br><br>
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