Word: shema
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...husband, a Spanish journalist named Luis Rodriguez, lost him 14 months later (he died of a liver ailment), two days before she was to sing a command performance of Le Cog d'Or at London's Covent Garden. She went on (as the Queen of Shema-khan) despite the tragedy, now thinks "singing helped...
Most important Jewish prayer is the Shema: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One." This affirmation of monotheism was originally a protest against idolatry. Bernstein retells the legend of how Abraham, left as a boy to keep his father's idol shop, smashed every idol but the largest, and told his father that this one had broken all the others...
With the coming of Christianity, the Shema acquired a new significance. Writes Bernstein: "Although the Jews are able to understand Jesus, the Jew of Nazareth, they have never been able to understand or accept the idea of the Trinity. Down through the ages innumerable Jews suffered, and many were put to death for rejecting this church doctrine . . . Thus from the beginning of the Christian era . . . the Shema has been the rallying point of Jewish loyalty confronting the persecution or the blandishments of the daughter religion...
...disciples] was from the Kiddush cup -the chalice. The bread he gave them to eat were these matzos, flour and water. Also on the Seder table is a shankbone, roasted .... In Jesus' time they ate the lamb together. That feast of the Passover was the Last Supper . . . 'Shema Israel adonoi elohenu adonoi echod-Hear O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One.' Those were words that Jesus knew and recited constantly...