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Zakhor
The Bible · 45/54

Vaethanan

The Ten Sayings retold, the Shema, the request refused to Moses.

Hebrew name
וָאֶתְחַנַּן
Book
Deuteronomy
Verses
Dt 3,23–7,11
Haftara
Is 40,1–26

The Shema Israël is here, with the order to repeat these words to children, sitting, walking, lying down: transmission is prescribed as a daily practice, not as a ceremony. It is the phrase that generations have spoken as their last. The haftara, "Console, console my people," inaugurates the seven weeks of consolation after the 9th of Av.

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