B'riahLiturgyp. 109

Sh'ma in Assyrian Script

The full Sh'ma in Ashuri letters, with Yahadonai woven into the Name.

Texts open from Sefaria, to read beside Reb David’s version.

Assyrian script (Ashuri) כתב אשורי

The square Hebrew script used in a Torah scroll, t'fillin and mezuzah.

Sh'ma שמע

“Hear, Israel: YHVH is our God, YHVH is One” (Deuteronomy 6:4), with the paragraphs that follow it. Said evening and morning.

Yahadonai יאהדונהי

The letters of יהוה and אדני interleaved into one word, a Kabbalistic way of holding the written and spoken Names together.

Both columns are headed תפלת הבריאה, the Prayer of B'riah.

This page is printed sideways in the original. It is shown here as a scan; a typeset Hebrew edition is a later step.