Shema

“ Paragraph 4 — If due to illness or another mitigating factor one read the Shema silently [3] one has fulfilled his obligation. Rem"a: And one does this from the start if one is in a place that is not completely clean and one cannot clean it up due to various factors one thinks about the Shema in his heart. ”

“ Explanation Emet v'yatziv ("True and enduring") is the blessing that follows the Shema in the morning liturgy, focusing on the theme of redemption.
The third paragraph of the Shema, Vayomer, contains the commandment of tzitzit (fringes) , which only applies during daylight. This is connected to the phrase "see it" in Numbers 15:39; tzitzit need only be worn when they can be seen by natural light. ”

“ From when may one recite the Shema in the evening? From the time when the kohanim go in to eat their terumah. Until the end of the first watch – the words of Rabbi Eliezer. And the [other] Sages say: Until midnight. Rabban Gamaliel says: Until the break of dawn. It once happened that [Rabban Gamaliel’s] sons came from a house of feasting. They said to [Rabban Gamaliel] : "We have not recited the Shema." He said to them: "If dawn has not broken, you are obligated to recite it." “ [This is true] not only in this case ”

“ A boy who knows how to say the Shema properly and understands the significance of the mitzvah is thus obligated to do so.
Exempt: In Kiddushin 29a, the Gemara explains that women are exempt from positive commandments for which there is a Biblically-established time in which they must be performed. (Such as the Shema.) Some commandments, however, while lacking a Biblically-established time for fulfillment may have a Rabbinically-established time (such as the Amidah) and women are thus obligated to fulfill those. ”

“ Introduction This mishnah continues from Mishnah Berakhot 2:5, which says that a groom is exempt from reciting Shema on the first night.
Hebrew Text
חָתָן, אִם רָצָה לִקְרוֹת קְרִיאַת שְׁמַע לַיְלָה הָרִאשׁוֹן – קוֹרֵא. רַבָּן שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן גַּמְלִיאֵל אוֹמֵר: לֹא כָּל הָרוֹצֶה לִטֹּל אֶת הַשֵּׁם, יִטֹּל. English Translation
If a groom wants to recite Shema on the first night, he may recite [it] . Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: Not everyone who wants to take on a name may take it on. ”

“ Another thing: kol `anot anokhi shome`a (Ex. 32:18) - is the affliction of anokhi shome`a, for she cries out every day up above, she and her children, and calls to Him twice a day evening and morning Shema Yisrael; and any mortal that is afflicted for the Shekhinah being poor in exile, apart from her Husband, and calls to Him each day Shema Yisrael, that He sould come down to her, precisely of him it's said kol `anot anokhi shome`a - "the voice of affliction" - of that poor one - "I hear." ”

“ Rabbi Yehoshua says: [One may recite the Shema] until three hours [of the day] , for such is the way of the sons of kings, to arise at the third hour. If one recites [the Shema] later than this, he has not lost out, [but rather is] like one who reads the Torah. ”

“ Explanation In the Babylonian Talmud, the discussion of Mishnah Tamid 5:1 begins on Babylonian Talmud Tamid 32b.
The three passages — “Hear, [O Israel . . .] ” (Deuteronomy 6:4–9) , “And it shall come to pass, if you hearken . . .” (Deuteronomy 11:13–21) , “And the Lord spoke . . .” (Numbers 15:37–41) — are often referred to collectively as “the Shema,” a prayer that observant Jews recite twice daily. ”

“ The seven praises mentioned in the verse are the seven blessings of the Shema, and the “just laws” are those refered to in the Shema itself.
Hebrew Text
בַּשַּׁחַר מְבָרֵךְ שְׁתַּיִם לְפָנֶיהָ וְאַחַת לְאַחֲרֶיהָ, וּבָעֶרֶב שְׁתַּיִם לְפָנֶיהָ וּשְׁתַּיִם לְאַחֲרֶיהָ, אַחַת אֲרוּכָה וְאַחַת קְצָרָה. מָקוֹם שֶׁאָמְרוּ לְהַאֲרִיךְ – אֵינוֹ רַשָּׁאי לְקַצֵּר. לְקַצֵּר – אֵינוֹ רַשָּׁאי לְהַאֲרִיךְ. לַחְתֹּם – אֵינוֹ רַשָּׁאי שֶׁלֹּא לַחְתֹּם. וְשֶׁלֹּא לַחְתֹּם – אֵינוֹ רַשָּׁאי לַחְתֹּם. ”

“ English Translation A baal keri should think about the Shema in his heart [i.e., instead of saying it out loud] and should not recite the blessings, either before or after. On food, he makes the blessing after, but not the blessing before. Rabbi Yehudah says: He blesses before and after. Explanation
Baal keri: Baal keri is a Mishnaic euphemism for a person who has had a seminal emission but has not yet been purified according to the relevant laws.
Think about: I.e. he should say the words in his head, concentrating on their meanings.
Blessings: I.e. the blessings of the Shema. ”

“ Hence in the evening the Ge'ullah must not be joined closely to Tefillah. [9] R. Johanan argues: There is here an analogy between lying down and rising. Just as [at the time of] rising, recital of Shema' precedes Tefillah, so also [at the time of] lying down, recital of Shema' precedes Tefillah. R. Joshua b. Levi argues [differently] : There is here an analogy between lying down and rising. Just as [at the time of] rising, the recital of Shema' is next to [rising from] bed, [10] so also [at the time of] lying down, recital of Shema' must be next to [getting into] bed. ”

“ Introduction Hebrew Text
הָאֻמָּנִין קוֹרִין בְּרֹאשׁ הָאִילָן אוֹ בְּרֹאשׁ הַנִּדְבָּךְ, מַה שֶּׁאֵינָן רַשָּׁאִין לַעֲשׂוֹת כֵּן בִּתְפִלָּה. English Translation
Workers can recite [Shema] on top of a tree or on top of a wall of stones, which they are not permitted to do for tefillah [prayer] . ”

“ Perhaps the answer is based on the ruling that the mincha offering and its wine can be brought even at night (unlike the sacrifice it is paired with) , so that we are also not overly concerned with linking the two in prayer. Furthermore, the kohanim in the Temple itself recited the Shema and the Shemona Esrei immediately after the slaughtering of the tamid, as is mentioned the fifth chapter of Mishnayos Tamid, while the Song of the Day was actually sung quite a bit later. Therefore we conduct ourselves likewise. ”

“ This refers to the statement of the Sages earlier in this mishnah.
To distance a person from transgression: Evidently the Sages were concerned that if someone did not say the Shema before midnight, he may forget and lose track of time and accidently fail to perform this mitzvah. ”

“ Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, 5:5 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, 5:6 Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites. 5:7 His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, 5:8 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon: 5:9 and eastward he lived even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead. ”

“ Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth, 26:5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him. 26:6 Also to Shemaiah his son were sons born, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor. 26:7 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah. 26:8 All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service; sixty-two of Obed-Edom. ”

“ By making their founders, Asshur, and Aram, and Heber, etc., sons or descendants of one great head or progenitor, Shem, a son of Noah. It is a kind of parable which is extremely clear once one has the key to it, when nothing is easier than to translate it into our own sober, positive forms of speech. The above bit of genealogy would read thus: A large portion of humanity is distinguished by certain features more or less peculiar to itself; it is one of several great races, and has been called for more than a hundred years the Semitic, (better Shemitic) race, the race of Shem. ”

“ Soma is also rich in healing and lord of the plants. When quaffed, he stimulates speech and is the lord of speech. He is a maker of seers, a protector of prayer, and his wisdom is extolled. He gazes with wisdom on men and so has a thousand eyes. The fathers, no less than men and gods, love him, and through him they found the light and the cows. The great deeds of the gods owe their success to their drinking the soma, with three lakes of which Indra fills himself for the slaying of Vṛtra. When drunk by Indra, Soma made the sun to rise in the sky, and hence Soma is declared to perform the feat ”

“ Ham will be ever lower than Shem; Shem will be ever lower than Japheth. All will rise in the Christian grandeur to be revealed. Ham will be lower than Shem, because he was sent to Central Africa. Man south of the Equator--in Asia, Australia, Oceanica, America, especially Africa--is inferior to his Northern brother. The blessing was upon Shem in his magnificent Asia. The greater blessing was upon Japheth in his man-developing Europe. ”

“ Szema was of great personal beauty, frank when it did not serve him to be wily, bold in his pleasures, and of manners almost femininely soft and voluptuous. He was renowned as a soldier, and for Teh-leen, he became a poet and master of the lute; and like all men formed for ensnaring the hearts of women, he seemed to forget himself in the absorbing devotion to his idolatry. His friend, the emperor, was of another mould. Yuentsoong's heart had three chambers—love, friendship, and glory. Teh-leen was but a third in his existence, yet he loved her—the sequel will show how well! ”

“ When the king heard this, he said to Shimas, ‘To-morrow I will come forth to them, if it be the will of God the Most High.’ So Shimas returned to the grandees and notables who were present and told them what the king had said. But this came to the ears of the favourite; so she went in to the king and said to him, ‘A king’s subjects should be his slaves; but thou art become a slave to thy subjects, for that thou standest in awe of them and fearest their mischief. They do but seek to make proof of thy temper; and if they find thee weak, they will disdain thee ”

“ Shem, king of righteousness, and king of peace, and priest of the Most High God, is the type, contemporary with the holder of the promises, of the Seed, or Christ, on the throne of the Kingdom of God. ”

“ Solomon bade the eagle release the peewit, and bade him relate what he had heard of Sheba and its queen.
5. THE HISTORY OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA.
"Sheba," said the peewit, "is the name of the king who founded the kingdom; it is also the name of the capital. Sheba was a worshipper of the sun, Eblis having drawn him from the true God, who sends rain from heaven, and covers the earth with plenty, and who reads the thoughts of men's hearts. ”

“ Your death will be your own fault." [20]
38 Shimei said to the king, "That is fair. Therefore your servant will do just as my lord the king has commanded." So Shimei stayed in Jerusalem many days.
39 Three years later, two of Shimei's slaves ran away to Achish son of Maachah, king of Gath, and it was reported to Shimei: "Your slaves are in Gath." 40 Shimei got up and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath, to Achish, to look for his slaves. Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath. 41 It was reported to Solomon that Shimei gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned. ”

“ The conquest of the descendants of Ham by the Greeks and Romans, and their slavery, attest the truth of Scripture.
The settlements of the descendants of Shem. The descendants of Shem occupied another belt or zone. It extended from the southeastern part of Asia Minor to the Persian Gulf and the peninsula of Arabia. The people lived in tents, were not ambitious of conquest, were religious and contemplative. The great theogonies of the East came from this people. They studied the stars. They meditated on God and theological questions. They were a chosen race with whom sacred history dwells. ”

“ So he betook himself to Shimas and said to him, “The King calleth for thee forthright because he hath awoke from his sleep in affright and hath sent me to bring thee to him in haste.” When Shimas heard this, he arose without stay or delay and going to the King, found him seated on his bed. He prostrated himself before him, wishing him permanence of glory and prosperity, and said, “May Allah not cause thee grieve, O King! What hath troubled thee this night, and what is the cause of thy seeking me thus in haste?” The King bade him be seated ”

“ It is sweet to die for those we love!”
It was the doomed girl that spoke, and as she turned her eyes upon the assemblage her face looked more beautiful than ever.
“If you have anything to say, out with it at once,” said the queen. “According to our ancient laws you must die, and our laws must not be broken.”
“I will say this much,” replied Azurma, advancing to the very edge of the steep, rocky slant: “The women of Hez have robbed me of the one I love, and now, as I stand upon the very brink of death, I set my curse upon all who took part in it. ”

“ The pallor of his face lent accent to the fire that smouldered in his eyes.
"I'm going to marry you, Sheba. Make up your mind to that, girl," he said harshly.
There was infinite pity in the look she gave him. "'There's caulder things than salt waves between us, so they are,'" she quoted.
"Not if I love you and you love me. By God, I trample down everything that comes between us." ”

“ She gives him her portrait, a picture which does not resemble her at all, but represents the fairy Belkis, who in olden days was the Queen of Sheba beloved by Solomon. The youth falls in love with this picture of a beautiful, dazzling, bewitching woman. Wherever he goes her name meets him; when he determines to try his fortune in a foreign country, the ship he sails in is called the Queen of Sheba. He wanders about the world dreaming of Belkis, as we wander, one and all of us, dreaming of our castle in the air, our ideal, our fixed idea, which to our neighbours is madness. ”