1. Welcome Yeshua’s Yeladim
We Love You

2. Please Remember These Rules
Please don’t talk when others are talking.
Please raise your hand if you would like to ask a question.
Please keep your hands and feet to yourself.
You must ask to leave the room.

3. Va’etchanan “And I pleaded”
Deuteronomy/Devarim 3:23–7:11
“Shema & V’ahavta”

4. How to Say the Shema

5. The Shema Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad.
Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
Barukh shem kevod malkhuto le’olam va’ed
Blessed is the Name of His glorious kingdom for all eternity.

6. Shema Thoughts The first word of the Shema is what?
What do you think God wants us to hear?
Why do you think the name "THE LORD" is used in the Shema?

7. V’ahavta - Deuteronomy 6:5-9
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

8. V’ahavta Thoughts What does it mean to love God with all your heart?
Using everything you have been blessed with, gifts and talents to do God's will and serve Him

9. Tefillin
Tefillin is used to bind those words “on thy arm and thy head”
The Tefillin are little boxes that contain the Shema and the V’ahavta

10. Head Tefillin The Head Tefillin reminds us to be careful how we think.
God’s word must be always before us.

11. Arm Tefillin The Arm Tefillin reminds us to be careful what we do.
The box is placed close to the chest, so God’s word must be close to our hearts.

12. The Mezuzah God’s words on the door-posts of your house.
Mezuzah is Hebrew for doorpost
Stands as a guard
Helps to protect

13. Mark 12:29-31
29 Yeshua answered, "The foremost is, 'Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord; 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' 31 The second is this, 'you shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

14. What Biblical prayer begins with the phrase “Hear O Israel”?
Review Questions
What Biblical prayer begins with the phrase “Hear O Israel”?
Amidah
V’ahavta
Talmidim
Shema
D. Shema

15. What is the Hebrew word for door post?
Review Questions
What is the Hebrew word for door post?
Tefillin
Kippah
Mezuzah
Shema
C. Mezuzah

16. Review Questions
What is something that God gave us to remind us to be careful in what we think and do?
Tefillin
Kippah
Mezuzah
A surf board
A. Tefillin

17. Review Questions
V’ahavta in English means?
I Love You
And you shall love
Love is a good thing
B. And you shall love

18. Small Group Time