Hear O Israel:
The Lord Our God
The Lord is One!
(Shema)

This is the covenant I make with
Israel: I will place My Torah in your midst, and write it upon your hearts.
I will be your God, and you will be My people.
- Gates of Prayer


In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
And God said: "Let there be light." And there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good.
(Genesis 1)

And God said: "Let us make man in our image,after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over…every creeping thing"…
So God created man in his own image…man and woman He created them.
(Gen. 1:2)


"Oh Lord, I am not a man of words…for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue." And the Lord said unto him:… "and I will be with thy mouth, and teach what thou shalt speak."
(Ex.10-12)


I am the Lord thy God
Thou shalt take no Gods before Me.
Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.
Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
Honor thy father and thy mother.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false Witnessagainst thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbor's wife.
Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbor's goods.
(Judaism, Ex. 19)


The Holy One, praised be He, longs for the prayers of the righteous
(Yebamot 64.a)

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
(Psalm 139:17)

O Praise God in his holiness; praise him in the firmament of his power.
Praise him in his noble acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
Praise him in the sound of the trumpet: praise him upon the lute and harp.
Praise him in the cymbals and dances: praise him upon the strings and pipe
Praise him upon the well-tuned cymbals: praise him upon the loud cymbals. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.
( Psalm 150)


And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day... And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
(Gen. 32:24, 29-30)


…cursed is the ground because of you; in turn you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
(Genesis 2-3)

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces;
(Is. 25:8)


Thus says the Lord: Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says the Lord, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy. There is hope for your future, says the Lord,
and your children shall come back to their own country.
(Jer.31: 15-16)