Unit 6.2 - A Time for Building a Just World

The lawyer quotes from Deut. 6:5 (cf. ch. 11:13). Compare Matt. 22:36-38, where Jesus later gave the same answer to the same question put to him by another lawyer. The words of Deut. 6:5 were recited by every devout Jew morning and evening as a part of the shema‘ (see p. 57), and were worn also in the phylacteries (see on Ex. 13:9). ................
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