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Shema Israel
Cover you eyes with your right hand and say: Recite the following verse in an undertone: Shema Yisrael The first, pivotal, words of the Shema are, in the original Hebrew: שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָֽד׃, which can be transliterated: Sh’ma Yisra’el, YHVH ‘eloheinu, YHVH ‘eḥad. Rabbinic Judaism teaches that the Tetragrammaton (י-ה-ו-ה), YHVH, is…