Teach yourselves and your children to say Shema Yisroel

This is the central prayer of Judaism. It affirms belief and includes some basic instructions on how to live as a Jew.

People on this sub are sometimes looking to connect and not knowing where to start. Saying Shema is a relatively easy step. It takes under 5 minutes to read the entire prayer.

Shema is said at the beginning of the day (morning prayer), at night before going to sleep, and when a person knows that they are about to die.

Learn Shema in order to:

Connect yourself and your children to your heritage

Affirm yourself as part of the Jewish people

Put ritual into your life

Have a prayer on hand to say as needed

Deepen your connection to G-d

Connect yourself to Jewish history

A person who was born Jewish is meant to live as a Jew- but every person on this sub can have a different idea of what that looks like. Saying Shema joins us all. The prayer belongs to all of us.