Sh’ma Yis’ra’eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad.
Barukh sheim k’vod malkhuto l’olam va’ed.
V’ahav’ta eit Adonai Elohekha b’khol l’vav’kha uv’khol naf’sh’kha uv’khol m’odekha.
translation further:
It shall be, that if you obey My commandments that I command you this day to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all Your heart and with all your soul, then will I send the rain for your land in its season, the early [autumn] rain and the late [spring] rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil. And I will provide grass in your field for your cattle, and you shall eat and be sated. Be careful that your heart be not tempted and you turn away to serve other gods and bow to them. For then God will be furious with you and will block the heavens and there will be no rain and the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land that God gives you. Take these My words to your hearts and to your souls, and bind them for a sign on your hands and for frontlets between your eyes. Teach them to your children: to speak them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road, when you lie down and when you rise up. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. So that your days and the days of your children may be prolonged upon the land, which God swore to give to your forefathers, as the days of the heavens [are prolonged] upon the earth.
essentially: incorporating His teachings about God and our relationship in a far simpler manner and leaving out the teachings/traditions with which the Jewish people had become burdened to the point where it was becoming impossible for them to understand and fulfill them and had disrupted their essential relationship with God.
Sh’ma Yis’ra’eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad. Hear, Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.
Barukh sheim k’vod malkhuto l’olam va’ed.
Blessed be the name of His glorious kingdom forever and ever.
V’ahav’ta eit Adonai Elohekha b’khol l’vav’kha uv’khol naf’sh’kha uv’khol m’odekha
And these words that I command you today shall be in your heart.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
The remainder of the Shema, which incorporates tradition and reminds of the commandments, interpreted far more simply and with greater communication of love and ongoing relationship between God and His creatures: Give us this day our daily bread …
(V’natati m’tar ar’tz’khem b’ito yoreh umal’kosh
v’asaf’ta d’ganekha v’tirosh’kha v’yitz’harekha.
That I will give rain to your land, the early and the late rains,
that you may gather in your grain, your wine and your oil.) et al.
and forgive us our sins (failures and turning away) as we forgive those who sin against us (this is the “new” commandment):
(Hisham’ru lakhem pen yif’teh l’vav’khem
v’sar’tem va’avad’tem Elohim acheirim v’hish’tachavitem lahem
Beware, lest your heart be deceived
and you turn and serve other gods and worship them.)
And do not allow us to be led into temptation or sin but deliver us from the evil one (Jesus actually used words that mean: “the evil one”, not simply “evil”):
(L’ma’an tiz’k’ru va’asitem et kol mitz’votai viyitem k’doshim lei’loheikhem
In order to remember and do all My commandments, and be holy for your God.)
v’asu lahem tzitzit al kan’fei vig’deihem l’dorotam
v’nat’nu al tzitzit hakanaf p’til t’kheilet
they should make themselves tzitzit (fringes) on the corners of their clothing throughout their generations,
and give the tzitzit of each corner a thread of blue.
This tradition had become almost a superstition. Some Hebrew prayer is/can be almost superstitious (in the manner it was and is used, at times). This prayer is known to all Jews and always has been. Most of them (in the time of Jesus) were illiterate and learned through oral teachings and repetition (which is essentially what the New Testament was in its early days). I really think Jesus was changing the Shema here but I could be wrong. I am almost always wrong.
