Comments on: Shema: To Hear is to Obey https://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/shema-to-hear-is-to-obey/ His Jewish Life and Teaching Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Øyvind Gustavsen https://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/shema-to-hear-is-to-obey/#comment-675141 Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:22:41 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?post_type=articles&p=2735#comment-675141 In reply to Lois Tverberg.

Thanks!

]]> By: Lois Tverberg https://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/shema-to-hear-is-to-obey/#comment-675140 Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:16:27 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?post_type=articles&p=2735#comment-675140 In reply to Oyvind Gustavsen.

8,000 is the better number. I corrected it above.

]]> By: phi https://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/shema-to-hear-is-to-obey/#comment-675134 Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:16:05 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?post_type=articles&p=2735#comment-675134 In reply to Oyvind Gustavsen.

the message I saw today also says 8,000

]]> By: David Hereford https://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/shema-to-hear-is-to-obey/#comment-675133 Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:35:06 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?post_type=articles&p=2735#comment-675133 Lois, Father is pointing out to me just how arrogant I am here before Him this last week. I have a way of believing His authority and have been for some time. He is teaching me to lay this down and listen to His Spirit. Your words only convince me just how arrogant I am and have been for some time now. Thank you my Sister in Jesus.

]]> By: Spencer Kasten ( MA ) https://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/shema-to-hear-is-to-obey/#comment-675130 Sun, 09 Jul 2023 22:14:25 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?post_type=articles&p=2735#comment-675130 In reply to Oyvind Gustavsen.

Excellent teaching! Thanks so much!

]]> By: Chuck Weyh https://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/shema-to-hear-is-to-obey/#comment-673624 Fri, 13 Jan 2023 15:59:14 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?post_type=articles&p=2735#comment-673624 Thanks Lois!
Is there not somehow a similar case regarding “believe” as translated in our Bibles? Yeshua seems to point at this while talking to his mourning follower, Martha in John 11. Martha clearly says what she believes, while Jesus hints that this might not be enough. What might have been translated into our Greek gospel text?

]]> By: Lois Tverberg https://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/shema-to-hear-is-to-obey/#comment-667913 Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:58:49 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?post_type=articles&p=2735#comment-667913 In reply to Leslie S.

Aramaic has a virtually identical word to shema with very similar semantic domains. The two languages are very similar.

Jesus was very likely bilingual, speaking both Hebrew and Aramaic. The idea that he spoke only Aramaic is outmoded and not supported by evidence. Almost all the Jewish prayers and parables that date back to the first century are preserved in Hebrew, not Aramaic. The oldest and earliest rabbinic texts were written in Mishnaic Hebrew. It was a few centuries later when Aramaic started to be used in rabbinic literature, like it is in the Talmud.

Aramaic was a “lingua franca” – a language that everyone speaks in the marketplace so that they don’t need a translator. Official documents and posted signs and place names might be in Aramaic, but it doesn’t mean that people spoke it much otherwise.

Here’s a very good lecture on the language we find Jesus using in the gospels, which is first-century Hebrew.

]]> By: Leslie S https://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/shema-to-hear-is-to-obey/#comment-667912 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 23:59:30 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?post_type=articles&p=2735#comment-667912 Was Googling “to hear is to obey”, trying to get the origin/source, and came on your website, providing the information. Many thanks. Would just like to ask, however, that since Jesus spoke, in conversation, in Aramaic, not Hebrew, does Aramic have a cognate word to “shema”?

]]> By: ROSA CHARGINGEAGLE MORALES https://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/shema-to-hear-is-to-obey/#comment-664948 Thu, 28 Jan 2021 20:53:15 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?post_type=articles&p=2735#comment-664948 MAY THE PRINCECOF PEACEC, BLESS AND HIGHLY FAVOR Y'ALL IN YOUR JOURNEY WITH SAFETY AND ABUNDANCE, IN YESHUA NAME AMEN🙏]]> DEAR brother’s and sisters, thank you for ministering to YESHUA , and to us all, I’m learning of this BEAUTIFUL Word “Shema” I’m blessed with a 8year old grandson, who is100% boy, very hyper active, hardly slowing down to any words to have attention for not even a break for lunch, showers, not for 5minutes, Long story short,
“S H E M A” is all this precious Word In a Loud Shout! He stopped in his tracks, (note; I’m not a Loud person) but to say what God loves ( TRUTH) There is Power in GOD ALMIGHTY, THIS ONE WORD “SHEMA” is like this child was awaken From a deep sleep, now he knows the meaning and how this Precious Word works, AMEN!🙏 MAY THE PRINCECOF PEACEC, BLESS AND HIGHLY FAVOR Y’ALL IN YOUR JOURNEY WITH SAFETY AND ABUNDANCE, IN YESHUA NAME AMEN🙏

]]> By: Matt VanderZwaag https://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/shema-to-hear-is-to-obey/#comment-552590 Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:36:57 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?post_type=articles&p=2735#comment-552590 Dear Lois,
Thank you for your article about the word ‘shema’. In discipleship class, we also talked about the same topic of shema having a deeper meaning than just ‘hear’. It is good to remember that we can hear something, but then we also need to do it in order to shema.
Thanks, Matt

]]> By: Oyvind Gustavsen https://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/shema-to-hear-is-to-obey/#comment-532427 Tue, 25 Aug 2015 12:39:21 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?post_type=articles&p=2735#comment-532427 Dear Lois, thanks a lot for your books and your website. I love it. One question: In the article above, it says that “Biblical Hebrew includes only about 4,000 words”. However, in your book, “Walking in the dust”, chapter 2, under the subheading “Wise Hebrew Words” (page 36 in my edition) it says that there are 8000 words in Biblical Hebrew. What is correct?

]]> By: David Russell https://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/shema-to-hear-is-to-obey/#comment-95823 Tue, 27 May 2014 16:59:30 +0000 http://ourrabbijesus.com/?post_type=articles&p=2735#comment-95823 Dr. Tverberg and readers,
I enjoyed this reflection and life example, depicting shema to mean hear and act on what is heard. What prompted my exploration of this, was a recent discussion of John chapter 13 where Jesus states, If you love me, you will “keep” my commandments. The person with whom I was having the discussion with, suggested that “keep or keeping” means more to hold dear, take in, not just an outward response like obeying or adhering to a town’s ordinance, speeding law, etc. Secondarily, I saw your definition also cited by Dr. Jeff A Benner from the Ancient Hebrew Research Center on line magazine also discussing shema as hearing and responding.. Thank you for this article and I trust this comment finds much well with you and yours!

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