The Jewish “shema” is the most sacred commandment God gives to God’s people through the Torah (the Holy Scriptures). It is their confession of faith:

Hear O Israel, The Lord is our God. The Lord is One. Blessed be the Name of His glorious kingdom forever and ever. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your might. And it shall be that these words that I command you today shall be in your heart. And you shall teach them diligently to your children and you shall speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be for a remembrance between your eyes. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates (De…