Synopsis: We noted last week that in this situation, although one does not have his tefillin on, he should nevertheless recite the first verse of Shema and ... see that this prayer, our ...

reading the first line of the Shema, which mandates that Jews internalize the oneness of God, in Hebrew. Schumer then said he would read from Leviticus 19:8. “Don’t take vengeance on or bear a ...

and ‘Shema Yisrael’, which he had never recited in his life,” Shir shared. She added, “He said that amidst all that hell, he wanted to remember that he was Jewish, that there was meaning ...